The end of world war one:Woodrow Wilson: campaigned for a peaceful way to end the war. he tried to go to both sides to come up with something to the war that they could both be okay with, but it didn’t work.The Armistice:On Nov. 11th the leaders of both sides got together in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne. It was signed at 5 A.M. and went into effect 6 hours later.The Border: The final allied had began to push towards Germany’s border on october 17th 1918 and then they began to collapse and so Turkey signed an armistice at the end of october.November 11,The agreement was called the treaty of Versailles and Germany had to stop all of its military actions and pay the war costs.By the end of the war there were 9 million dead, 21 million wounded and 5 million civilians starved to death.Hitler took advantage of Germany’s debt and realized that the people would do anything for money and he started WWll.Countries throughout Europe made mutual defense agreements which meant if one allied country .was attacked the others would help defend.Alliances during the war - Russia and Serbia. Germany and Austria-Hungary. France and Russia. Britain, France, and Belgium. Japan and Britain.Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia got involved to defend Serbia. Germany declared war on Russia. France was then drawn in against Germany and Austria Hungary. Germany attacked France through Belgium pulling Britain into the war. Then Japan entered the war. Later Italy and the US entered on side of the allies.Imperialism is a policy to expand power through military forces.The military forces were the Allies and the Central Powers.The Allies were made up of France, Russia, Britain, Serbia and the USA.The central powers were made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and Romania. Though Roman changed sides about halfway through the war.Declaration of war the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Black Hand, a Serbian group Austria blamed Serbia for the attack and Austria declared war on Serbia germany offered support to AUstria if they needed, though Germany did not think they would need it. Germany declared War on Serbia.The British U-boat, Lusitania, held American citizens.The boat was sunk by German campaigns.The Zimmerman note was being sent from Germany to Mexico offering Mexico, American land to join the war, but America intercepted the telegram and deciphered the note, leading to war.America thus declared war on Germany America entered WWI on April 6th, 1917.During the period it was really an arms race to build up weaponry and technology, they were competing for the best technology.Governments started spending 10x as much on their militaries as they had in the past.Nationalism is a strong supporter of the rights and interest of someone’s country.Russia, Germany, Austria and Prussia had discussed that the world needed a new Europe and Italy became their own state. There was a settlement France-Prussian War France left the war angry because of their loss.Austria and Siberia were known as the home of many nationalist, they all wanted to be freeThey agreed to consult with each other if the other got in war with any other nation or if the stability of Europe was threatened.Russia allied itself with France the year after the Reinsurance Treaty lapsed.The Franco-Russian Military Convention, was aimed at counteracting the threat posed by the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.David Lloyd George: He was Britain's prime Minister during the war.John J. Pershing: Was a commander of US Forces deployed in Europe.Woodrow WIlson U.S. President during the warAlfred Zimmermann: German foreign ministerWorld War 1 was supposedly the war to end all wars but the signing of the Peace Treaty started WWll.America tried to stay out of the war, we traded with nations involved in the war. Main reasons why the US got involved is because of the Zimmermann note sent to Germany asking Mexico to attack.
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