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Answer
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Nearby city traditionally cited as the signing location
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Compiègne
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Time the Armistice went into effect
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11:00 AM
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American with a German last name and recently busted from sergeant down to private, who foolishly charged German machine gunners less than 1 minute before peace went into effect
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Henry Gunther
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Collective name for Germany and her allies, all of whom except Germany, had already surrendered
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Central Powers
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Recently defeated German ally headed by the Habsburg Dynasty
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The Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Recently defeated German ally led by The Three Pashas. The central remnants of this empire would soon be led by another man named Pasha, a.k.a. Atatürk.
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The Ottoman Empire
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Recently defeated German ally on the Black Sea
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Bulgaria
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Collective name of the allies fighting Germany
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The Entente
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French field marshal who was the Western allies' supreme commander and primary author of the terms of surrender
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Ferdinand Foch
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Document that formalized Germany's surrender, signed 5 years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Treaty Of __________
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Versailles
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U.S. President's set of proposed conditions for permanent peace
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Fourteen Points
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...which would lead to this precursor of The United Nations
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The League Of Nations
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German Emperor who had ended his 30-year reign by announcing his abdication 2 days prior, having fled to The Netherlands.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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German city where the constituent assembly established a new government the same day the Emperor abdicated. Hitler derisively named this interwar government after the city, the ______ Republic.
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Weimar
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Worldwide pandemic that had weakened the armies and would kill tens of millions of young adults through 1920.
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Spanish Flu
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Collective name for the long standing, heavily entrenched defensive positions to which the Germans had recently returned, named for the supreme military commander of Germany and her allies: The __________ Line
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Hindenburg (OR Siegfried Line)
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General who had been head of the German armies until just before the armistice.
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Erich Ludendorff
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German paramilitary units that revolted against the government and would be a continuing source of strife for several years.
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Freikorps
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Nickname for squads of German soldiers who adapted precursor Blitzkrieg tactics near the end of the war to finally break trench warfare and push toward Paris.
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Stormtroopers
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Field marshal in charge of United Kingdom forces
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Douglas Haig
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General in charge of United States forces
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John J. "Blackjack" Pershing
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Treaty which had ended hostilities between Germany and the new Soviet government of Russia
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Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk
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German ports in which sailors had mutinied in the days before the armistice
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Kiel
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Wilhelmshaven
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President of The United States
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Woodrow Wilson
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Prime minister of The United Kingdom
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David Lloyd George
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King of Belgium
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Albert I
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Prime minister of France
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Georges Clemenceau
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President of France
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Raymond Poincaré
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Chancellor of the German Empire
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Maximilian von Baden
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Percent of Germany held by the enemy when it surrendered
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0%
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