HIST 2013 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Praetorian Prefecture Of Africa
25 Aug 2016
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Woodrow wilson proposes 14 points: key points: People can only be governed by their own people. Either granting independence or at least allowing them to govern themselves. Form a body of countries that will gather and mediate issues internationally. Germany disintegrating by 1918: bread riots, strikes. German high command realizes need for tangible victory on the battlefield. Germans launch massive offensive on western front: gain 40 miles in 4 days, get within artillery range of paris. American reinforcements save the day: august 1918: allies counterattack. By october 1918 germany realizes it cannot win: 3 reasons: Military mutiny germans in trenches would just surrender as soon as. Americans breached a trench, germans also just drop weapons and start walking home. Germany reaches out to america for peace: wilson proposes 14 points and germany wants to partake in utopian ideas . Allied countries are like we"re not on board : armistice goes into effect on november 11, 1918.
