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PRESIDENT WILSON REPLIES TO GERMANY; SAYS HUNS MUST GIVE UP STOLEN TERRITORY. IF Germany Complies It Will Amount to an Unconditional Surrender
To the communication of the German chancellor, asking for an armistice, and stating that Germany would negotiate for peace on the fourteen points laid down in President Wilson's address to congress, made on the eighth of January last, the president has made one of the most astute and faultless replies in the history of the world's diplomacy. He has put the German government in a position where it must demonstrate its sincerity or faithlessness. He virtually says to the German government: "Take your armies home, relinquish all the territory you have stolen, as an evidence of the sincerity of your intentions, and then we will talk things over." The president's reply is as follows: Department of State Oct. 8, 1918. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, on behalf of the President, your note of October 6, enclosing a communication from the German government to the President; and am instructed by the President to request you to make the following communication to the Imperial German Chancellor: Before making reply to the request of the Imperial German government, and in order that that reply shall be as candid and straightforward as the momentous interests involved require, the President of the United States deems it necessary to assure himself of the exact meaning of the note of the imperial chancellor. Does the imperial chancellor mean that the imperial German government accepts the terms laid down by the President in his address to the congress of the United States...
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Armistice of 11 November 1918
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. It was signed in a railroad car in the Compiègne Forest, near the town of Compiègne It was concluded after the German government sent a message to American president Woodrow Wilson to negotiate terms on the basis of a recent speech of his and the earlier declared 'Fourteen Points', which later became the basis of the German [surrender].
Wikipedia →Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. Although the armistice of 11 November 1918 ended the actual fighting, and agreed certain principles and conditions including the payment of reparations, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference.
Wikipedia →Stab-in-the-back myth
The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende) was an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest, and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
Wikipedia →Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
The remilitarisation of the Rhineland began on 7 March 1936, when military forces of Nazi Germany entered the Rhineland, which directly contravened the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties. After 1939, commentators often said that a strong military move in 1936 might have ruined the expansionist plans of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany.
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