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PEACE PLANS: THE FOURTEEN POINTS
January 1918: Wilson announced a peace plan to Congress: “fourteen points.”
Called for an international body to oversee the peaceful settlement of international disputes and European territorial changes, based on national self-determination.
Initially, the German leaders rejected his plan for peace.
No other Allied leaders were consulted in the formation of this plan.
THE GERMANS SUE FOR PEACE
21 March: Operation Michael begins: the major German offensives almost split the French and British forces, but was eventually stopped: bogged down in the mud.
Early August: the German forces had been thwarted by Allied counter-offensives. Their army was about to collapse. The Allies: advancing towards the Hindenburg Line.
28 September: Realising that defeat was near, Ludendorff and von Hindenburg sought the Kaiser’s permission to begin immediate peace moves towards the Allies.
Ludendorff knew that Wilson was a moderate man, who would offer fair peace terms: expected him to be more lenient than France and Britain.
In early October, Prince Max of Baden was appointed as Chancellor, and immediately wrote to President Wilson (USA) asking for an armistice, based on his fourteen points.
The United States stated that they would negotiate only with a democratically elected government in Germany.
While Wilson and the Allies were negotiating, a revolution broke out in the navy, which spread to the nearby town of Kiel, and eventually throughout Germany.
The United States imposed the condition that terms and implementation of the armistice were to be determined by the Allies, without German input. Ludendorff protested that this amounted to an unconditional surrender, and proposed to continue the war. When he was refused, he resigned.
8 November: The German Armistice commission met with Marshal Ferdinand Foch in a railway car near the forest of Compiegne.
In the previous week, the navy had mutinied near the town of Kiel, and a socialist uprising had broken out. Political and military leaders had lost control of the country.
9 November: Wilhelm II was told that he no longer had the support of the army or the people, Prince Max of Baden (Chancellor) announced his abdication and the establishment of a provisional government led by Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party. Germany had become a republic.
11 November: At 5.00am the Armistice was signed, and its terms came into effect at 11.00am that day: militarily, the Great War was over.
PEACE PLANS: THE FOURTEEN POINTS
January 1918: Wilson announced a peace plan to Congress: “fourteen points.”
Called for an international body to oversee the peaceful settlement of international disputes and European territorial changes, based on national self-determination.
Initially, the German leaders rejected his plan for peace.
No other Allied leaders were consulted in the formation of this plan.
THE GERMANS SUE FOR PEACE
21 March: Operation Michael begins: the major German offensives almost split the French and British forces, but was eventually stopped: bogged down in the mud.
Early August: the German forces had been thwarted by Allied counter-offensives. Their army was about to collapse. The Allies: advancing towards the Hindenburg Line.
28 September: Realising that defeat was near, Ludendorff and von Hindenburg sought the Kaiser’s permission to begin immediate peace moves towards the Allies.
Ludendorff knew that Wilson was a moderate man, who would offer fair peace terms: expected him to be more lenient than France and Britain.
In early October, Prince Max of Baden was appointed as Chancellor, and immediately wrote to President Wilson (USA) asking for an armistice, based on his fourteen points.
The United States stated that they would negotiate only with a democratically elected government in Germany.
While Wilson and the Allies were negotiating, a revolution broke out in the navy, which spread to the nearby town of Kiel, and eventually throughout Germany.
The United States imposed the condition that terms and implementation of the armistice were to be determined by the Allies, without German input. Ludendorff protested that this amounted to an unconditional surrender, and proposed to continue the war. When he was refused, he resigned.
8 November: The German Armistice commission met with Marshal Ferdinand Foch in a railway car near the forest of Compiegne.
In the previous week, the navy had mutinied near the town of Kiel, and a socialist uprising had broken out. Political and military leaders had lost control of the country.
9 November: Wilhelm II was told that he no longer had the support of the army or the people, Prince Max of Baden (Chancellor) announced his abdication and the establishment of a provisional government led by Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party. Germany had become a republic.
11 November: At 5.00am the Armistice was signed, and its terms came into effect at 11.00am that day: militarily, the Great War was over.
