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Module 6.06 The Treaty of Versailles

With the entry of the United States into the war the tide of victory turned. No longer a stalemate the German army retreated from all of its positions. One by one the Central powers surrendered until Germany was forced to fight alone and many of its peoples were in revolt to.

World War I came to an end at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Some 65 million men had served under arms. Of that total approximately 10 million had been killed and another 20 million wounded. Europe was in shambles, and its leaders faced an enormous task. They arranged to hold a peace conference in Paris in January of 1919 to restructure the world.

Assignment 6.06- The Treaty of Versailles

Use the following site below to access a summary of the Treaty of Versailles: Copy and paste the summary into a word processing program for easier reading.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWversailles.htm

List the new countries that were created by the Treaty of Versailles that were carved out of the German and Austria-Hungary empires.
Of the summary of the 13 Terms summarized on the site, choose any 5 of them and tell why these terms are going to directly lead to World War II.