Monica Ellen Rizzo

Armistice

The February Revolution ousted the Czar (Tsar)

The new Liberal government decided to keep fighting Germany

Germany helps Lenin return to RussiaThe October Revolution puts the Bolsheviks

in powerThey propose peace and negotiations begin

Dec. 1917March 1918 Peace agreements between

Russia and Germany are signed

Russia Exits the War

KaiserArmyGovernment

German Disillusionment

Sept 1918 Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Eric Ludendorff inform Kaiser Wilhelm III that the war is lost

Army suffers desertions and mutinyThe Kaiser abdicates

The war is lost

A temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent; a truce

Signed November 9, 1918Effective 11am November 11 1918 11-11-11

Armistice

Germany, beaten in the field, menaced by certain invasion and overwhelmed by internal revolution, capitulated to the Allies and accepted what will probably be the sternest terms of all time. The principal points are:

36 days

Evacuation by enemy of Rhineland

Terms

Allied garrisons at Mainz, Coblenz and Cologne to occupy territories

Terms

Immediate evacuation of Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine and Luxembourg.

Terms

Surrender of 5,000 guns and 2,000 aeroplanes.

All submarines to be handed over.

Disarming of six battle cruisers, ten battleships, eight light cruisers and 50 destroyers.

Terms

Abandonment of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk treaties.

Terms

Allies reserve right to occupy Heligoland, to enable them to enforce the terms of the Armistice.

Terms

The Armistice, which was to last for 36 days, was signed at 5am by the German delegates. Hostilities ceased at 11am.

The Great War Lasted - Four years, 14 Weeks, and two days

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Great War

The War to End all Wars…

The Signing

France

The Trenches

America

Remembrence

How soon we forget