1918 Influenza Pandemic 20 Million people died German

1918 Influenza Pandemic – 20 Million people died

German Kaiser abdicates and leaves for Netherlands Armistice Day cease fire with Germany November 11, 1918

Treaty of Versailles Germany agreed to cease fire – not surrender

Treaty of Versailles The Big Three Great Britain – David Lloyd George France – Georges Clemenceau Goals: Weaken Germany United States – Woodrow Wilson Goals: Peace without Victory Fourteen Points

Treaty of Versailles Germany agreed to cease fire – not surrender – Germany forced to take full blame

Treaty of Versailles Germany agreed to cease fire – not surrender Germany forced to take full blame Reparations – • • • Cost of war Pensions 3 Trillion today

Treaty of Versailles President Woodrow Wilson Fourteen Points • • Self-determination – Each country chooses Freedom of Trade – world trade by choice Disarmament – Prevent Germany from rebuilding League of Nations – an international peace keeper

Treaty of Versailles Germany agreed to cease fire – not surrender Self – Determination Right for each country to determine own government European Countries Italy did not get land from Austrian Hungarian Empire

Treaty of Versailles Germany agreed to cease fire – not surrender Self – Determination European Countries Italy did not get land from Austrian Hungarian Empire Mandate System China and Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire Collapses Turkey became a Republic Modernization and Westernization Arab lands carved into Mandates Arabs had been promised independence

Ottoman Empire Collapses Turkey became a Republic Modernization and Westernization Arab lands carved into Mandates Palestine Region – Arab Nationals were promised lands – Jewish Zionists were promised same lands

Japan – China conflict Germany gave concessions to Japan in China May 4 th Movement in China Populist movement away from the elitist the “New Culture Movement” Nationalist Party begins in China

India • Promised self-determination denied by Britain • Surge in Indian Nationalism • Mohandas Gandhi – Became leader of India non-violent nationalist movement

India Mohandas Gandhi Became leader of India non-violent nationalist movement • The Salt March 12 March 1930 and was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement.

India Mohandas Gandhi – Independence in 1947 – Assassinated in 1948 by Hindu extremist

“The war to end all war” Was the beginning of something even bigger WORLD WAR II