Monday:
Homefront:
- refers to what people did back in the us to help win the war
War industries board:
- pumping out war goods
food administration:
- conserve food for war
Goals of propaganda:
- conserve food
- enlist in the military
- women or factories
- plant victory gardens
- women become nurses
national war labor board:
- settled disputes between workers and employers
- discouraged strikes
- work or fight
- headed by Taft
Tuesday:
the Paris peace conference:
Wilson 14 points:
- it was a speech delivered by president Woodrow Wilson to congress on January 8, 1918
- it became the basis for the terms of the German surrender as negotiated
- an end to secret treaties
- freedom of the seas
- free trade for all countries
- disarmament
- end to colonial claims
- self determination for all countries----Russia
- restoration of Belgium
- restoration of France
- readjustment of Italy's boundaries
- Austria hungry would be given opportunity for autonomous development
- Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored
- turkey should be sovereign(independence)
- Poland would be given their independence
- the league of nations would be developed
treaty of Versailles:
- Germany lost a lot of land to other countries
- Germany also lots a lot of colonies overseas
- their military was reduced
- Germany was not allowed an air force
- Germany was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
financial losses of Germany:
- the loss of vital industrial territory would be a sever blow to Germany's economy. coal from the Saar and upper Silesia in particular was a vital economic loss
- Germany had to pay 33 million from war debts
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one country
- general:
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. this was clause 231------the infamous war guilt...........
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
I was gone
Thursday:
gave extra credit presentation
Friday:
work day for semester test
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