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= Post World War I Peace Process =

=The Treaty of Versaille= A document written after the first world war, by the allied victors. Germany was excluded from the conference. Each country had their own agenda to fill after the war. France wanted security from future German aggression in the form of a buffer state, and to have Britain and the United Sates come to their aid in the case of aggression. Britain wanted German's to pay reparations for the lives and money lost in the war. The United States wanted a "League of Nations" to prevent future world wars.

=League Of Nations= The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the end of WWI. It was based off of the idea that if all of the world powers were united, then individual Nations would be deterred from future acts of aggression. Despite Woodrow showing avid support for an assembly of creating the League of Nations, even making a speech to America called his Fourteen Points, America did not join the league because congress felt that it was a violation of their right too be able to declare war. In the end, the League proved unsuccessful when they were unable to stop Germany from starting WW2. . =Fourteen Points= The speech in which Woodrow Wilson gave to the Nation 10 months before the war ended. It was mainly aimed to assure Americans that they had entered the war with moral intentions, and to outline what their goals would be after we had won. Also tried to convince congress to sign for what will be the treaty of Versailles.

=Armisitce= The agreed ceasefire called by Germany on November 11th 1918. Effectively ended fighting at the end of WWI. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated, determined to negotiate an "armistice" or peace terms with the Allies. Armistice meaning a cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace negotiations, though generally "The Armistice" refers to the agreement by the Germans and the Allies to end the war. An Armistice is not always the end of a war, but will stop fighting for a period of time.

=Redrawing Borders= The redistribution of territory lost or gained during the war. Staring with a series of treaties between the victories allies, the United States, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. In the process redrawing the continents nation frontiers. To end the war Lenin signed the treaty of Brest-Litosvk, and handed over territories to the west. The Treaty of Versaille also amputated a number of regions from Germany and Easter Prussia was isolated from the rest of the German territory. The Treaties of Saint-Germain-En-Laye and Trainon ended the Austria-Hungary Empire, both of their territory substantially reduced, they became two separate nations. The Fourteen Points also created independent states for minority populations previously part of the fallen empires.