The Great War
☮PEACE☮
July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918
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Armistice:
Treaty Of Versailles:
Fourteen Points (1-5, 14):
~ Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were first outlined in a speech Wilson gave to the American Congress in January 1918. Wilson's Fourteen Points became the basis for a peace programme and it was on the back of the Fourteen Points that Germany and her allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918.
The Big Four:
League Of Nations:
" Peace Without Victory " :
Henry Cabot Lodge:
Going Over The Top
~ Better than standing in a line and just shooting at each other.
Guns
~ New guns were coming out that would shot more than one bullet at a time.
Going Over Now
~ Tanks were made so the could get over no mans land.
Devastation:
World War One had left Europe devastated, those countries that had fought in it, had suffered casualties never experienced before:
Britain : 750,000 soldiers killed; 1,500,000 wounded
France : 1,400,000 soldiers killed; 2,500,000 wounded
Belgium : 50,000 soldiers killed
Italy : 600,000 soldiers killed
Russia : 1,700,000 soldiers killed
America : 116,000 soldiers killed
The Allies suffered heavy casualties also:
Germany : 2,000,000 soldiers killed
Austria-Hungary : 1,200,000 soldiers killed
Turkey : 325,000 soldiers killed
Bulgaria : 100,000 soldiers killed
The total deaths of all nations who fought in the war is thought to have been 8.5 million with 21 million being wounded.