Today we continued our project discussions. I had five-power, four-power, and nine-treaties. We began discussing those today. I will continue my notes from earlier.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Treaty that ended world war 1.
What were the major points of the Treaty of Versailles and other world war 1 treaties?
Wilson's 14 points, they thought that those would be the treaty. The Treaty of Versailles was all for punishing Germany. Germany lost many countries due to the Treaty of Versailles. France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Poland got land from Germany. Germany also lost a lot of colonies around the world. Germany's army and navy were reduced. No tanks, submarines, or air force was allowed. Financially Germany had industrial territories taken away. Germany had to pay $33 billion dollars for losing the war. Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war, "War Guilt Clause". League of Nations was set up- world wide peace keeping organization. GB, France, and U.S. had most power of the treaty. New countries that came out of WW1 were Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania came from Russia. Poland came from Russia and Germany. Czechoslovakia came from Austria Hungary and Germany. Austria Hungary shrunk. Yugoslavia formed from Austria Hungary along with Serbia. Yugoslavia broke up in early 90's.
What did the U.S. do in regards to the Treaty of Versailles?
The senate rejected the treaty when the president returned. They thought it was too harsh on Germany. They didn't like the league of nations. The League of Nations is a group of countries that work together to keep peace.
Then we did the peace attempts. This was my group. Here is the link to the notes.
League of Nations
Some failures were that people cheated, they had to have 100% vote to do something.
Notes on Peace Attempts of the 1920's
Japan did not get to India, Australia, parts of China, Hawaii, parts of Alaska/ Soviet Union
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