Monday- Forum post leaders share their topics
WWI
- The Home front
- Where people who weren't fighting helped support militarizes
- Bernard Baruch- War Industries Board
- Encouraged mass production
- Increased US production by 20%
- Food Administration - Herbert Hoover
- "meatless and wheat less days"
- "Victory gardens"
- "Food is ammunition- Don't waste it"
- Propaganda
- Persuasive advertising
- Persuade people to not eat meat, eat more of other foods
- Committee on public information- George Creel
- Influence US public opinion to support WWI
- Had propaganda
- Americanized German words:
- German Measles- liberty measles
- Hamburger- Liberty steak
- Sauerkraut- Liberty Cabbage
- War bonds
- Used to pay for the war
- National War Labor board
- Taft
- Settled disputes between workers and employers
- "Work or Fight"
- Discouraged Strikes
- Deaths
- US lost 53,000 in Combat and MIA
- 116,000 for all causes
- Germany lost 2,037,000
- 11,000,000 total lost in the war
Tuesday-
WWI part 3-
- The Paris Peace Conference
- Meeting of Allied victors following the end of the war
- Set peace terms defeated nations (Germany)
- Wanted to punish Germany
- Involved diplomats from 29 countries
- Created the Treaty of Versailles
- The Big Four
- Woodrow Wilson (US), Britain, Italy, France
- Wilson's Fourteen points
- What he wanted the treaty to be
- Other countries didn't agree with these points
- The fourteen points
- End all 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
- Adjust Italy's Boundaries
- Let Austria- Hungary determine fate
- Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be restored
- Turkey should be independent
- Poland would be given independence
- "League of Nations"
- Versailles
- Territorial Losses
- Land
- Oversees colonies
- Germany had to return land back to Russia
- These countries declared independence
- Military losses
- only 100,000 men
- No air force
- only 6 naval ships
- Rhineland area was made into a demilitarized zone
- Financial losses
- Loss of land
- Natural resources
- Had to pay $33 billion in war reparations
- Wasn't allowed to unite with Austria
- Loss of land
- General
- War guilt clause
- League of nations was set up
- Territorial Losses
Wednesday-
WWI part 3- Peace process
- League of Nations-
- Five permanent members
- England, France, Italy, US, Japan
- Four non- permanent members
- Peace-keeping organizations
- Try to keep world from going to war
- If ignored, League can take actions
- Economic Sanctions
- France wanted an international army, US and England didn't
- US never Joined
- Thought it would put us into wars
- Congress was concerned it would lose its power to declare war if we joined
- US never passed the treaty of Versailles
- Concern on league of nations
- Politics
- US signed the German peace treaty in 1921
- Wilson's Journey across the US
- Wanted to get people behind the league of nations
- Five permanent members
Thursday-
Mr. Bruns went over his tips for the semester test
Work Day
Friday- Work day
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