today we talked about our ww1 test that we will be having on wednesday.
7 topics:
causes of ww1- (militarism) and assassination
describe trench warfare and weapons
US neutrality and how we got involved in the war
US homefront
-definition
-propaganda
-commitee
wilson's 14 points (1-5 & 14)
treaty of versallies
why we never ratified the treaty
treaty of versallies-
france was upset
great britain brought the US and france together
germany lost a lot of land
german military was reduced; could only have 100,000 men
financial consequences-
germany had to pay 33 billion dollars
when they lost land they also lost money because of the resources
general:
war guilt clause- all of the loss of life, all of the damage done to the cities; they forced germany to take responsibility for the war
they got blamed because they were a powerful country
hitler wanted to undo everything the treaty of versallies and he did
league of nations- world wide peace keeping organizations
US never joined but we were a member
we were going to be one of the five countries
country a has a problem with country b they take it to the league of nations; they make it so both sides should agree; they try and make everything fair
germany and soviet union were not allowed to join right away
soviet union was communist
germany had just lost the war
what type of actons?
- economic sanctions
france wanted an international police force
we did not want that because we thought war would be going on all of the time
we never joined the league of nations
problems: no military force and the US never joined
why did we not pass the treaty???
for the treaty to be passed the senate would have to ratify it
we had a democratic president but a republican senate
wilson was not willing to compromise
US was iscolationist
wilson says we need to go into the league of nations
1920 election- return to iscolationism
one of the worst decision was to stay iscolated
then we did blog discussion
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