Blog discussion.
1. What were the causes of WWI in Europe?
Alliances.I-Imperialism
N-Nationalism
E-Economic competition
2. What were the major alliances of WWI?
3. What were the goals of WWI for all the major countries involved?
France- They lost land on the border of Germany and France, and wanted it back. And wanted their territories back. Wanted to punish Germany.
UK-Germany was trying to take the Ottoman area, so the UK wanted that land so they thought the war would help them get that. Wanted to build train route for oil purposes. Get German colonies in Africa.
US-Win and end the war. Wilson's 14 points. Make the world safe for democracy.
Germany- Solve dispuits with neighboring countries (Borders). Wanted a monarchy. Wanted a "sphere of influence" over Austria-Hungary and the Balkans.
4. What were some of the major land battles prior to US involvement-1914-March, 1917?
5. What were some of the major naval battles of WWI?
Importance in the Navy- To protect the US waters from enemies.
Atlantic u-boat. - Germany. (unrestricted warfare)
Britain created underwater bombs to get rid of the u-boats.
6. What were the US reactions to WWI starting in 1914?
7. What were the causes for US involvement in WWI?
Sinking of the Lusitania, German u-boats, Zimmerman Note.
8. What were the major land battles for the US in WWI?
Assigned blogs #6. All battles for us took place in 1918.
9. What were the major military strategies for winning the war for both Allied and Central Powers?
Van Shlieffen Plan. Alfred Van Shlieffen's plan, they needed to get 90% of germans to fight against France and the other 10% to hold back Russia. It was a failure since the German's took to long getting through Belgium which allowed Britain to use more time.
Plan 18
Plan 19- Russian counter attack to the Van Shlieffen Plan
10. What were some of the weapons of WWI?
Used animals to test gas masks.
11. Describe trench warfare.
Warfare fought in trenches. Pretty much just ditches. Defensive warfare. "No mans land" in between the trenches, which was covered in barbwire. General John Pershing.
12. Describe what happened on the US Home Front in WWI.
What people did back home to win the war. Women would have to take over their husbands jobs. War industries board which was purchasing the weapons for the war which started in 1918. The countries that had the most "stuff" would win the war. Food Administration started by Herbert Hoover (Also known for the crash of the stock market). Food administration did the packaging and production of food. Also incouraged people to become self sufficient when it came to making their own food. The home front was an important front of the war.
13. Describe Wilson's 14 Points.
Set up boundaries and rules for after the war. Wilson brought these 14 points with him when he went to the Paris Peace Conference (which set up the the Treaty of Versailles) Wilson wanted the 14 points to be the peace treaty but it didn't happen. Germany wasn't mentioned in the 14 points. Some of the 24 points got in but not all of them. Germany thought the 14 points was the treaty do they signed it but it wasn't, the Treaty of Versailles pretty much punished Germany.
1. No more secret agreements ("Open covenants openly arrived at").
2. Free navigation of all seas.
3. An end to all economic barriers between countries.
4. Countries to reduce weapon numbers.
5. All decisions regarding the colonies should be impartial
6. The German Army is to be removed from Russia. Russia should be left to develop
her own political set-up.
7. Belgium should be independent like before the war.
8. France should be fully liberated and allowed to recover Alsace-Lorraine
9. All Italians are to be allowed to live in Italy. Italy's borders are to "along
clearly recognizable lines of nationality."
10. Self-determination should be allowed for all those living in Austria-Hungary.
11. Self-determination and guarantees of independence should be allowed for
the Balkan states.
12. The Turkish people should be governed by the Turkish government. Non-Turks in
the old Turkish Empire should govern themselves.
13. An independent Poland should be created which should have access to the sea.
14. A League of Nations should be set up to guarantee the political and territorial
independence of all states.
14. Describe the points of the Treaty of Versailles.
France, Great Britain, the US, and Italy made most of the decisions. After WWI Europe change drastically, a lot of new countries emerged.
Germany lost land. land around them but also colonies.
Germany's military was dismantled. Everything was reduced.
Germany had to pay war reparations.
Germany's war guilt clause.
League of nations was set up.
15. Why did the US never pass the Treaty of Versailles?
We never signed it so we were never in the League of Nations. We signed other treaties to end the war so we went back to isolationism.
16. Why did the Allied Powers win WWI?
British naval blockade kept the central powers from getting supplies.
We had tons of supplies.
We had more and better weapons.
Because the US was involved. (We are a HUGE power.) 'merica.
17. Describe the impact WWI had on the world.
It cost billions and billions of dollars.
It took millions and millions of live 16.5 million deaths.
Changed the map of Europe.
Ticked off certain groups of people. (The Nazis.)
Japan emerges as a world power.
Recessions in countries.
18. How did countries react to the Treaty of Versailles?
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