World History › Section V · World War I › Topic V.5
The war ends and the peace settlement
The First World War did not end with one side marching into the other's capital. It ended as empires cracked from within, first Russia's in 1917 and then Germany's and its allies' in 1918, and the peace made in Paris redrew the map of three continents.
In this topic
- A war ended by collapse
- Tsarism under strain
- The February Revolution
- October and Brest-Litovsk
- Worked example: why Russia left the war
- Germany's last gamble
- The Central Powers collapse
- The armistice and the cost
- The peace settlement
- Worked example: the war-guilt clause
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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