8.4 - End of the war

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What did Wilson want to create?

A world organization, the league of nations, to prevent future wars

Italy was considered one of the what?

Big Four Powers

What happened as a result of the war?

Both German and Russian empires lost much territory in Eastern Europe

What did the final peace settlement of Paris consist of?

Five separate treaties with the defeated nations

What was France's approach to peace guided by?

Its desire for national security

When did the representatives of 27 victorious allied nations meet?

January 1919

When did the conference accept the idea of the League of Nations?

January 25, 1919

When was the Treaty of Versailles with Germany signed?

June 28, 1919

What were the acquisitions that Wilson opposed to the Allies' annexing territories called?

Mandates

When was the German attack launched?

March 1918

When and where did the delegates meet to determine the peace settlement?

Paris in 1919

When did General Ludendorff demand that the government ask for peace at once?

September 29, 1918

By the time the war ended, what happened?

The Austro-Hungarian empire was no more

What happened when the U.S. senate refused to ratify an agreement with Great Britain?

The Versailles peace settlement was weakened

What was the main factor that pushed the allies to victory?

The entry of the United States into the war in 1917

Where was the German advance stopped at?

The second Battle of the Marne

Where did the allied nations meet and what did they do?

They met in Paris to make a final settlement of the Great War

Who were part of the Big Three?

United States, France, and Great Britain

The Russian Revolution weakened the allies when what happened?

When Russia withdrew from the war a few months later

What is an armistic?

a truce or an agreement to stop the fighting

Wilson portrayed World War I as a people's war against what?

absolutism and militarism

According to the system, a nation officially governed another nation as a mandate from the league of nations, but did not...

own the territory

What did Woodrow Wilson outline before the war ended?

"Fourteen Points" to the United States congress


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