Week of December 14th-18th

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Monday:

• Types of fronts
  • Home front
    • Refers to what people did back in the US to help win the war
    • Every country has their own home front
• Be able to analyze WWI propaganda, identify it goals and evaluate the effectiveness of it
  • Conserve food
  • Enlist in the military
  • Women- work in factories or become nurses
• Committee on Public Information
  • Goal was to influence U.S. public opinion to support WWI 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
• National War Labor Board
  • Settled disputes between workers and employers
  • Discouraged strikes
  • "Work or fight"
  • Headed by William Taft
• Be able to identify the importance of key people: Woodrow Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, John Pershing, Bernard Baruch, Herbert Hoover, George Creel
  • John Pershing
    • General for U.S. soldiers in WWI
  • Charles Evans Hughes
  • Bernard Baruch
    • Regulated industry in US
    • Encouraged mass production
    • Headed the War Industries Board
    • Under the War Industries Board industrial production in the U.S. increased 20%
  • Herbert Hoover
    • Head of Food Administration
    • 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 is Ammunition-Don't waste it" - Motto
    • "Food will win the war" - Motto
  • George Creel
    • Head of Committee of Public Information
  • Woodrow Wilson
• Be able to identify the costs of the war: US and grand total
  • War bond was made
    • Someone would give money to the Government 
    • After war they would get their money back
• Be able to identify the actions we took at home to mobilize our country for war
  • The home front
    • Refers to what people did back in the US to help win the war
    • Women start working in factories
  • War Industries Board
    • Encouraged mass production
    • Industrial Production increased 20%
  • Food Administration
    • Urged people to conserve food
    • Production of food
    • Prevented hoarding of food

Tuesday:

• Be able to define what the Paris Peace Conference was
  • Meeting of the Allied victors following the end of WWI to set the peace terms from 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 ("Peace of Paris Treaties") that reshaped the map of Europe and imposed penalties on Germany
• Be able to describe Wilson’s 14 Points
  • A speech delivered by Wilson to Congress on Jan 8, 1918
  • Became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919
  • Allied countries did not like the 14 points as they thought it was too easy on Germany
  • The actually Treaty of Versailles had little to do with the Fourteen Points and so was never ratified by the US
  • Fourteen Points
    1. An end to secret treaties
    2. Freedom of the seas
    3. Free trade for all countries
    4. Disarmament
    5. End to colonial claims
    6. Self-determination for all countries-Russia
    7. Restoration of Belgium
    8. Restoration of France
    9. Readjustment of Italy's boundaries
    10. Austria-Hungary would be given opportunity for autonomous development
    11. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored
    12. Turkey should be sovereign (independent)
    13. Poland would be given their independence
    14. 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
    • Germany lost land to:
      • France
      • Belgium
      • Denmark
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Poland
    • Germany lost a lot of colonies over seas 
  • Military Losses
    
    • Germany's army was reduced to 100,00 men
    • No tanks
    • No Air force
    • Only allowed 6 capital naval ships 
    • No submarines
  • Financial Losses
    
    • Loss of vital industrial territory would be a severe blow to the German economy.
    • Coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular was a vital economic loss
    • Had to pay $33 billion in war reparations
    • Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria to form one country
  • General
    
    • Had to admit full responsibility for starting the war.
    • Clause 231 - the infamous "War Guilt Clause"
    • Germany had to accept the "War guilt clause" and take blamed for WWI
    • A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace

Wednesday:

• Be able to describe why the US never ratified the Treaty of Versailles
  • The U.S. never passes the Treaty of Versailles
    1. Concern over the League of Nations
    2. Politics.
  • U.S. and Germany signed a Peace treaty in 1921

Thursday: Extra credit presentations

Friday: Semester test work day