Editing Central Powers (section)

== Armistice and treaties ==
Bulgaria signed [[Armistice of Salonica|an armistice]] with the Allies on 29 September 1918, following a successful [[Vardar Offensive|Allied advance]] in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-09-28 |title=The National Archives – Milestones to peace: the Armistice of Salonica |url=https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/milestones-peace-armistice-salonica/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=The National Archives blog |language=en-GB}}</ref> The Ottoman Empire followed suit on 30 October 1918 in the face of British and [[Arab]] gains in [[History of Palestine#Ottoman period|Palestine]] and [[Syria]].<ref name="fromkin">{{Cite book |last=Fromkin |first=David |author-link=David Fromkin |title=[[A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East]] |publisher=Macmillan |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8050-8809-0 |pages=360–373}}</ref> [[German Austria|Austria]] and [[Hungarian Democratic Republic|Hungary]] concluded ceasefires separately during the first week of November following the disintegration of the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] and the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto|Italian offensive at Vittorio Veneto]];<ref>[http://www.forost.ungarisches-institut.de/pdf/19181103-1.pdf Armistice Convention with Austria-Hungary]</ref><ref>{{cite journal
|first= Bogdan
|last= Krizman
|title= The Belgrade Armistice of 13 November 1918
|journal= [[The Slavonic and East European Review]]
|publisher= [[UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies]]
|issn= 0037-6795
|location= London
|volume= 48
|issue= 110
|year= 1970
|pages= 67–87
|jstor= 4206164
|url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/4206164
}}</ref> Germany signed the armistice ending the war on the morning of 11 November 1918 after the [[Hundred Days Offensive]], and a succession of advances by [[Dominion of New Zealand|New Zealand]], [[Australia]]n, [[Canada|Canadian]], [[Belgium|Belgian]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]], [[French Third Republic|French]] and [[United States|US]] forces in north-eastern [[French Third Republic|France]] and [[Belgium]]. There was no unified treaty ending the war; the Central Powers were dealt with in separate treaties.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Davis |editor1-first=Robert T. |title=U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security: Chronology and Index for the 20th Century |publisher=Praeger Security International |location=Santa Barbara, California |volume=1 |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=gsM1JiXAMJEC&pg=PA49 49] |isbn=978-0-313-38385-4}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Central Powers by date of [[armistice]]
! Country
! Date

|-
| {{flagicon|Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946)}} [[Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946)|Bulgaria]] || {{dts|format=dmy|1918|09|29}}
|-
| {{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Ottoman Empire]]  || {{dts|format=dmy|1918|10|30}}
|-
| {{flagicon|Austria-Hungary}}[[Austria-Hungary]] || {{dts|format=dmy|1918|11|4}}
|-
| {{flagicon|German Empire}} [[German Empire|Germany]]   || {{dts|format=dmy|1918|11|11}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Central Powers treaties
! width=160|Country
! width=90 |Treaty of
! class=unsortable|Results
! Date signed

|-
| {{flagicon|Weimar Republic}} [[Weimar Republic|Germany]]|| [[Treaty of Versailles|Versailles]]
|Germany was required to demilitarize the [[Rhineland]], to reduce their [[army]] to 100,000 men, and the [[navy]] to 15,000 sailors, and to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion). [[Tank]]s, [[submarine]]s, and an [[air force]] were all forbidden.
|{{dts|format=dmy|1919|06|28}}
|-
| {{flagicon|Austria|1230}} [[Republic of German-Austria|Austria]]|| [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Saint-Germain]]
|
|{{dts|format=dmy|1919|09|10}}
|-
| {{flagicon|Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946)}} [[Tsardom of Bulgaria (1908–1946)|Bulgaria]]|| [[Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine|Neuilly]]
|
|{{dts|format=dmy|1919|11|27}}
|-
| {{flagicon|Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)}} [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]] || [[Treaty of Trianon|Trianon]]
|
||{{dts|format=dmy|1919|06|04}}

|-
| {{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Ottoman Empire]]/[[Turkey]] || [[Treaty of Sèvres|Sèvres]]/[[Treaty of Lausanne (1923)|Lausanne]]
| The Treaty of Sèvres caused resentment among the Turkish populace of the Ottoman Empire and resulted in the outbreak of the [[Turkish War of Independence]], after which the Treaty of Lausanne was signed.
|{{dts|format=dmy|1920|08|10}}/{{dts|format=dmy|1923|08|24}}
|}

<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
File:CentralPowersPoster3.jpg|A postcard depicting the flags of the Central Powers' countries
File:Weinold Reiss - WWI poster Charity Bazaar.jpg|Poster for a 1916 [[charity bazaar]] raising funds for widows and orphans of the Central Power states
File:Drei Kaiser Bund.jpg|The leaders of the Central Powers in 1914
</gallery>