Monday- Continued to present Ch. 11 ppt.
Tuesday- Continued Ch. 11 powerpoint
Wednesday- Finished presenting Ch. 11
Thursday- Kayla presented her battle ppt. We watched a Christmas video and worked on our semester test blogs.
Friday- Not in school
- Be able to analyze WWI propaganda, identify it goals and evaluate the effectiveness of it
- What is it- Persuasive advertising
- Goals
- Conserve food
- Buy warbonnets
- Get people to enlist
- Be able to identify how the convoy system works and the effectiveness of it
*War bonds- How we paid for the war
*U.S. lost almost 117,000 people in WWI
- Be able to identify the importance of key people: Woodrow Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, John Pershing, Ferdinand Foch, Bernard Baruch, Herbert Hoover, George Creel
- Be able to identify the costs of the war: US and grand total
- Be able to identify the actions we took at home to mobilize our country for war
- Home-front
- Refers to what people did back in the US to help win war
- Every country has their own home front
- War Industries Board
- Headed by Bernard Baruch
- Regulated industry in U.S.
- Encouraged mass production
- Under the War Industries Board, industrial production in the U.S. increased 20 percent
- Food Administration
- Headed by Herbert Hoover
- urged people to conserve food
- Had "meatless days" and "wheat-less days"
- 'Victory gardens" were planted by schools and homes
- Prevented hoarding of food by people
- Committee on Public Information
- Goal was to influence U.S. public opinion to support World War I in their own war
- Had a huge propaganda campaign to do so
- The committee used newsprint, posters, radio, telegraph, and movies to broadcast its message
- Goals
- Conserve food
- Buy war bonds- get people to buy
- Get people to enlist
- Goals
- Home-front
- Be able to define what the Paris Peace Conference was
- The meeting of Allied victors following the end of WWI to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations
- It took place in Paris is 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 29 countries
- They came up with a series of treaties ("Peace of Paris Treaties") that reshaped the map of Europe and imposed penalties on Germany
Be able to describe Wilson’s 14 Points
- The Fourteen Points was a speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson to Congress on January 8, 1918
- The speech became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919
- Other Allied countries did not like the 14 points as they thought it was too easy on Germany
- The actual Treaty of Versailles had little to do with the Fourteen Points and so was never ratified by the U.S. Senate
- An end to secret treaties
- Freedom of the seas
- Free trade for all countries
- Disarmament
- End to colonial claims
- Self-discrimination for all countries- Russia
- Restoration of Belgium
- Restoration of France
- Readjustment of Italy's boundaries
- Austria-Hungary would be given opportunity for autonomous development
- Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored
- Turkey should be sovereign (independent)
- Poland would be given their independence
- The "League of Nations" would be developed
League of Nations
- Five Permanent members
- Great Britain, France, Italy, U.S. Japan
- Four non-permanent members that rotated
- All members must submit disputes for investigation, arbitration and settlement
- If member nation ignored, League could take action
- What type of action?
- Economic sanctions
- France wanted an international army but US and Great Britain did not
- Germany and the Soviet Union were not allowed to join right away
- U.S. never joined- Why?
- 1. Republicans thought it would pull US into European wars
- 2. Congress was concerned it would lose it's power to declare war if we joined
- Be able to describe the Treaty of Versailles in detail and the impact it had on Germany and Europe
- Territorial Losses
- The following land was taken away from Germany:
- Alsace-Lorraine (given to Franc)
- Eupen nd Malmedy (given to Belgium)
- Northern Schelswig (given to Denmark)
- Hultschin (given to Czechoslovakia)
- West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia (given to Poland)
- All the land getting taken away made Hitler take over in WW2
- The League of Nations also took control of Germany's overseas colonies
- Germany had to return to Russia land taken in the Treaty of Brest-Litosk. Some of this land was made into new states: Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. An enlarged Poland also received some of this land
- *Germany lost land*
- Military Losses
- Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanks
- Germany was not allowed an airforce
- Germany was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- The Rhineland area was made in demilitarized zone. No German soldier or weapon
- Financial Losses
- Coal was an economic loss
- The loss of land also caused them financial loss
- Germany had to pay $33 billion in war reparations
- General
- 1. Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. This was Clause 231- the infamous "War Guilt Cause"
- 2. Germany had to accept the "war guilt cause" and take blame for WWI
- 3. A league of Nations was set up to keep world peace
- Be able to describe why the US never ratified the Treaty of Versailles
- 1. Concern over the League of Nations
- 2. Politics
- US signed the U.S.- German Peace Treaty in 1921
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