Monday- Discussed forum posts. Need to have all 15 forum posts done by this Friday. Continued discussion of WWI.
•Be able to analyze WWI propaganda, identify it goals and evaluate the effectiveness of it
•Be able to identify how the convoy system works and the effectiveness of it
•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 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
•Be able to identify the actions we took at home to mobilize our country for war
- Refers to what people did back in the US
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%
Food Administration-
- Headed by Herbert Hoover
- Urged people to conserve food
- Had "meatless days" and "wheatless days"
- "Victory gardens" were planted by schools and homes
- Prevented hoarding of food by people
- "Food in ammunition- don't waste it"
National War Labor Board
- Settled disputes between workers and employers
- Discouraged strikes
- "Work or fight"
- Headed by William H. Taft
United States lost almost 17,000 people in World War 1
•Be able to analyze WWI propaganda, identify it goals and evaluate the effectiveness of it
- What is propaganda?
- persuasive advertising
- What were the goals of propaganda during WWI?
- save food
- buy war loans
- getting people to enlist
- Goal was to influence U.S. public opinion to support World War 1 in their own way
- Had a huge propaganda campaign to do so
- The committee used newsprint, posters, radio, telegraph, and movies to broadcast its message
- Americanized German words
- German Measles- liberty measles
- hamburger- liberty steak
- sauerkraut- liberty cabbage
Tuesday- Continued WWI discussion. Part 3
•Be able to define what the Paris Peace Conference was
- The meeting of the Allied victors following the end of WWI to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations
- It took place in Paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 29 countries
- They came up with a series of treaties that reshaped the map of Europe and imposed penalties on Germany
- Four major countries that were there to sign the treaty
- US- Woodrow Wilson
- Great Britain
- Italy
- France
•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 14 points and so was never ratified by the U.S. Senate
- The 14 points
- An end to secret treaties
- Freedom of the seas
- Free trade for all countries
- Disarmament
- End to colonial claims
- Self- determination for all countries- Russia (communism)
- 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 e evacuated and restored
- Turkey should be sovereign (independent)
- Poland would be given their independence
- The "League of Nations" would be developed
•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 France)
- Eupen and Malmedy (given to Belgium)
- Northern Schleswig (given to Denmark)
- Hultschin (given to Czechoslovakia)
- West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia (given to Poland)
- The Saar, Danzing and Memel were put under the control of the League of Nations and the people of these regions would be allowed to vote to stay in Germany
- Germany had to return to Russia land taken in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.. Some of this land was made into new states: Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. An enlarged Poland also received some of this 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 into a demilitarized zone (DMZ). No German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone. The Allies were to keep and army of occupation on the west bank of the Rhine for 15 years
- Financial Losses
- The loss of vital industrial territory would be a severe blow to Germany's economy. Coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular was a vital economic loss
- Germany had to pay $33 billion in was reparations
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one country
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. This was Clause 231- the infamous "War Guilt Clause"
- Germany had to accept the "war guilt clause" and take blame for WWI
- A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace
•Be able to describe why the US never ratified the Treaty of Versailles
Wednesday- Continued and finished discussion on WWI. Went over the semester test questions.
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 (no imports or exports for that country)
- France wanted an international army but U.S. and Great Britain did not
- Germany and the Soviet Union were not allowed to join right away
- U.S. never joined- Why?
- Republicans thought it would pull US into European wars
- Congress was concerned it would lose its power to declare war if we joined
•Be able to describe why the US never ratified the Treaty of Versailles
- Concern over the League of Nations
- Politics
- US signed the U.S.- German Peace Treaty in 1921
•Be able to identify the costs of the war: US and grand total
-110,000 dead from the U.S
Thursday- Did presentations about the battles of WWI. We had a day to work on our semester test blogs and prepare for the semester test.
Friday- Worked on our semester test blog.
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