last day of the week!!
i have Spring Offensive for my assigned
i need to make sure that i get notes of the power point mr bruns has loaded on the the website
Russia
-wants control of the Dardenelle and Bosporus straits in Turkey
Austria-Hungary
-self preservation
Germany
-wanted part of france
-wanted Luxembourg and Belgium
-wanted most of western Russia
-make Austria-Hungary and the Balkans a ''sphere of influence"
-take over French and British colonies in Africa
-almost 5 million deaths
United States
-117,000 people deaths in america
-win and end the war
-wilson's 14 points
Neutraility
1916 Election
-woodrow wilson (democrat)-incumbent
-Charles Evans Hughs
Causes for Us. involvement in WW1
-U.S. very upset with both sides in war
-gb and germany were both stoping us ships
-Eventually us drew closer to war and allies
1-why? germans were sinking british ships and killing american people
2-Zimmerman note
-was a coded telegram sent by the foreign secretary of the german empore, arthur smimmermann, on January 16. 1917
-it was sent to the german ambassador in the united states of america, Johanna von Berns
-zimmermann message said on the first of febuary we intended to begin unrestricted submarine warfard. in spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep the united states f america neutral
-in the even to this not succeeding we propose an alliance n the following basis with mexico: that we shall make war together and make peace together. we shall give gernerous financial support, and the understanding on our part that mexico is the reonquer the lost territory in new mexico, texas, and arizona the details of settlement are left to you
-you are instruced to inform the president [of mexico] of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the united states and suggest that the presidnet, on his own initiatice, invite japan to immdeiate adherence
-beliefs of war hawks
a teddy roosevelt
3-Trade with england increased, germany decreaded as years went on
a. $3 billion in 1916 with england
5. british and american propaganda
show examples
6. Preparedness program (1915)
u.s. stated arming and preparing for war
7. american business
munitions business pushed U.s. into war to make money
8. german declaration of "unlimited submarine warfare"
ties with #1
-sussex pledge said that germany would not sink any passanger ships and they would give warning before skinking ships
-propaganda goals- to try to get all americans to support war in some way
Comittee on Public information
***how did we pay for ww1?
income taxes. and liberty loans-you loaning the government money...you had to give them 2% of what you were worth
Wilson’s 14 Points :
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
About Wilson's 14 points
-the fourteen points was a speech delivered by president woodrow wilson to congress on January 8th, 1918
-the address was intended to assure the country that the great war (WWI) was being fought for a moral cause and for post war peach in Europe
-other allied countries did not like the 14 points as they thought it was too easy on Germany
-the sppech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peach Confrence in 1919
-the actual Treaty of Versailles had little to do with the Fourteen Points and so was never ratified by the U.S. Senate
Countries that were created at the end of WWI
-Czechoslovakia
Tready of Versailles
-germany lost alot of land
-and lost colonies
-dismantnteled germany's army, no airforce, no tanks, only allwed 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
-france got a buffer zone between them and it was demilitarized zone or the dmz
-germany had to pay 33 million dollars. most of it went to great britan and france
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