Monday-
•Be able to analyze WWI propaganda, identify it goals and evaluate the effectiveness of it
- Join military
- Nationalism
- War bonds
- Enlist
- Women working in factories, becoming nurses
Committee on Public Information-
- Goal was to influence US public opinion to support WWI in their own way
- Had a huge propaganda campaign to do so
- The committee used newsprint, posters, radio, telegraph and movies to broadcast its message
- Americanized German Words:
- -German Measles-liberty measles
- hamburger liberty steak
- sauerkraut-liberty cabbage
- National War Labor Board
- Settled disputes between workers and employers
- Discouraged strikes
- "Work or fight"
- Headed by William H. Taft
•Be able to identify the importance of key people: Woodrow Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, John Pershing, Ferdinand Foch, Bernard Baruch, Herbert Hoover, George Creel
•Be able to identify the costs of the war: US and grand total
•Be able to identify the US policy that Wilson declared when WWI broke out in 1914
WWI Causalities-
- Both military and civilian
- Deaths: 16.5 million
- Wounded: 20 million
- Total WWI casualties: 35 million+
- Military-
- Deaths: 9.7 million
- Wounded: 21.2 million
- Prisoners of War and Missing Soldiers: 7.5 million
• Be able to identify the actions we took home to mobilize our country for war
- The Homefront
- Refers to what people did back in the US to help with the war
- War Industries Board
- Headed by Bernard Baruch
- Regulated industry in US
- Encouraged mass production
- Under the War Industries Board, industrial production in the US increased 20%
- Food Administration
- Headed by Herbert Hoover
- urged people to conserve food
- Had "meatless days" and "wheatless days"
- "Victory gardens" were planted by schools and homes
- Prevented hoarding of food by people
- "Food is Ammunition- Don't waste it"
Tuesday-
Paris Peace Conference-
- The meeting of the Allied victors following the end of WWI to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations
- Took place in Paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 29 countries
- Came up with a series of treaties that reshaped the map of Europe and imposed penalties on Germany
Wilson's 14 points-
- Speech delivered bu President Wilson to Congress on Jan 8, 1918
- Speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919
- Other Allied countries didn't like the 14 points as they thought it was too easy on Germany
- Actual Treaty of Versailles had little to do with the 14 points and so was never ratified by the US senate.
1. An end to secret treaties-
2. Freedom of the seas
3. Free trade for all countries
4. Disarmament
5. End to colonial claims
6. Self-determination for all countries-Russia
7. Restoration of Belgium
8. Restoration of France
9. Readjustment of Italy's boundaries
10. Austria-Hungary would be given opportunity for autonomous development
11. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored
12. Turkey should be sovereign (independent)
13. Poland would be given their independence
14. The "League of Nations" would be developed
Treaty of Versailles-
- Territorial losses
- The following land was taken away from Germany:
- Alsace-Lorraine (Given to France)
- Eupen and Malmedy (Given to Belgium)
- Northern Schleswig (Given to Denmark)
- Hultschin(Given to Czechoslovakia)
- West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia (Given to Poland)
Military Losses-
- Germany' army was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanks
- Germany was not allowed an air force
- Germany was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- The Rhineland area was made into a demilitarized zone. No German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone. The allies were to keep an army of occupation on the west bank of the Rhine for 15 years.
Financial Losses-
- Loss of vital industrial territory would be a severe blow to Germany's economy. Coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular was a vital economic loss
- Germany had to pay $33 billion in war reparations
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one country
Wednesday-
League of Nations-
- Permanent members
- Great Britain
- France
- Italy
- United States
- Japan
- Four non-permanent members that rotated
- All members must submit disputes for investigation, arbitration, and settlement
- If member nation ignored, League could take action
- What type of action?
- Economic sanctions- Quit trading with certain countries
- France wanted an international army but US and GB did not
- Germany and the Soviet Union were not allowed to join right away
- US never joined-Why?
- 1. Republicans thought it would pull US into European Wars
- 2. Congress was concerned it would lose it's power to declare war if we joined
US never passes the Treaty of Versailles- Why not??
- 1. Concern over the League of Nations
- 2. Politics
- US signed the US-German Peace Treaty in 1921
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