Russia makes agreement with Germany and ends war with Germany
No eastern Front for Germany and are able to focus on western Front
German soldiers lose moral as they don’t see the purpose of the War
More American soldiers arrive → Germany is in disadvantage
Wilson: Get rid of The Kaiser!
Germany refuses to take down kaiser → More battles
1918
Nov 9th: German Kaiser steps down
Nov 11th War pronounced over (Germany surrenders)
Germany on offense: They were occupying parts of France and Belgium; to surrender did not make sense to the soldiers and Germany was in the believe of being messed wit
Situation after War:
Russia: Tsar dead
Germany: Kaiser exile
France: devastated
USA: World Power
Treaty of Versailles
begins at end of WWI
World leader meet in order to prevent this to happen again
Every part of society has changed
Attitude towards war (before: motivated - after: never again!)
1919: most power in treaty of Versailles:
Woodrow Wilson (USA)
believes he is a Christ like figure
looking down on World leaders of other nation
believes in anti imperialism
pro democracy
wants ethnicity right
Georges Clemenceau (France)
angry and bitter
France has suffered more casualties than any other nation in the first World War
hatress for Germany → wants Germany crushed and wants them to pay
David Lloyd George (Britain)
pragmatic towards Germany
punish Germany but not to the extent Clemenceau wanted to
wanted to hang on to Empire
England is heavily in Debt to USA
Situation of Germany: ruled by Ebert (Jewish)
Weimarer Republik
Invited to Treaty of Versailles as spectator
Does not have a choice but to sign the Treaty much to Germany’s misfortun
Wilson: 14 Points for self determination
countries in Europe: Yugoslavia (Serbs); Turkey, Romania; Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia
Western Europe stays the same
Europe racism: “Only white people are able to have self determination
League of Nations: (USA), UK, France, Italy, Japan