My english powerpoint is done, so i'll pay attention today. promise. and i'll do yesterday's blog later.
also on my to-do list- battle of hamel assigned blog, semester test blog, message board posts.
semester test will be in groups of 2 or 3 so everybody can get a time slot in.
bruns says he might sing the song for us today. thats good. pretty much every one else has heard it, i think.
REcap stuff.
Propoganda- american propo. americanized german things. brittish propo. made germans look totally evil.
lots of posters and things to gain support. Uncle Sam. YWCA. Help our Boys over There. Help our Girls over There. Help America's Sons win the War. Halt the Hun.
National War Labor Board- settled disputes between workers and employers; discouraged strikes; "work or fight"; headed by William H. Taft. becasuse, if people dont work, nobody is making anything, so nothing is being made, so theres nothing new to use, so we cant win the war. ultimately, helped us win the war "over there".
America paid for the war using tax money and war bonds/liberty loans/victory loans. basically, people loaned the government money. complicated process, that.\
bruns cries himself to sleep at night.
song time! twas beautiful, bruns. beautiful. we even got both verses! thanks to who i assume is liz's sister. they look a lot alike.
Casualties-->16 million people died in WW1. crazy. lots of statistics.
turkey lost a lot of civilians in the war because of the turk/armenian genocide.
allied wanted revenge on germany.
objectives: Be able to define what the Paris Peace Conference was. Be able to describe Wilson's 14 points. Be able to describe the Treaty of Versailles in detail and the impact it had on Germany and Europe. Be able to describe why the US never ratified the Treaty of Versailles.
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