On January 8, 1918, US President outlines his war goals (14 points). Thomas Woodrow Wilson intends in particular to ensure freedom of navigation on the seas, ensure the birth of new states (Czechoslovakia, Poland ...) and create a League of Nations.
The Treaty of Versailles, signed after long and complex deliberations of the Council of Four (Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando), attributed to Germany's moral responsibility for the war and required it to harsh conditions, without discussion.
On the border plane First, the treaty took note of attachment of Alsace-Lorraine to France.
→ Alsace.
Saarland lived for fifteen years in the international regime, while being economically united with France, before selecting its future by …show more content…
There are also 6.5 million injuries (nicknamed at the time the "broken faces"). In France and Belgium, in areas where the fighting fixed for almost four years, the material damage is considerable. The morale of the people is very low in the aftermath of the war. Many Europeans want us to do everything so that such horrors ever happening again.
The First World War has many consequences:
France recovers the Alsace-Lorraine, lost in 1871; but the war cost him many men and its territory is partly destroyed;
Germany exchange policy regime (after the German revolution of 1918) and became a republic; the tanks were used, as well as aircraft, for military purposes; the Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided into two countries: Austria and Hungary; other parts of its territory will be used to form new states: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland (for the latter, with territories taken from Germany and Russia). the United States showed their power. They got rich: their agriculture and industry with many products to help French and the British that they also paid a lot of money. the Russian Empire became the USSR, a country where the political and economic organization is