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If you don’t bring 1 you can’t participate . MONDAY. DON’T FORGET!!!! orange , lemon , lime or grapefruit due TOMORROW WW1 Unit Test Friday. Current Events Review HW “Failed Peace” last set of notes for the unit!!! TODAY: ORGANIZE YOUR LIVES!!! A: “failed peace” notes
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If you don’t bring 1 you can’t participate MONDAY DON’T FORGET!!!! orange,lemon,limeorgrapefruitdue TOMORROW WW1 Unit Test Friday • Current Events • Review HW • “Failed Peace” last set of notes for the unit!!! TODAY: ORGANIZE YOUR LIVES!!! A: “failed peace” notes B: check blanks/notes: all handouts ARE your notes to study C: this is the last day in-class for key terms D: take 10 to organize/ clean out/ 3-hole-punch your binders We have ONE marking period left… hang in there & do it right!!!.... Keep: KTs, main handouts, etc…
The Treaty of Versailles • Now that the war was “over,” Wilson traveled to France to help the Allies set the terms of peace (remember moral diplomacy?) • He finally deemed the world “safe for democracy” • 1st U.S. Pres. to meet foreign leaders on foreign soil • Hopes were high! Allied leaders from other countries did NOT share his hopes & visions
Wilson’s 14 Points Peace Plan • Wilson honestly wanted world peace • Europe honestly wanted revenge & to punish the Germans for the war • Fourteen Points: 1918 President Wilson’s peace plan for post WW1 to avoid future wars
Wilson’s 14 Points Peace Plan 1. An end to secret agreements • Secrecy had encouraged a messy web of rival alliances that had helped lead to war 2. Freedom of the seas & free trade 3. Create free trade among nations 4. Reduce and limit arms. 5. National self-determination: right of national groups to have their own territory & forms of gov’t
Wilson’s 14 Points Peace Plan 14. League of Nations: association of nations formed after WW1 under Wilson’s 14 point plan intended to protect the independence of all countries—large or small • “Justice to all people & nationalities with their right to live on equal terms of liberty & safety with one another, whether weak or strong” • + promotes peace & democracy • - too vague, non-realistic, not all Allies wanted the same thing
Paris Peace Conference • Diplomats from 30+ nations met at Paris & Versailles to negotiate 5 separate peace treaties • Key issues were decided by the leaders of the Allied nations • Big Four: U.S. Britain, France, Italy • Russia (now Communist) was not invited!!!
Disagreement Among the Allies • Wilson wanted “peace without victory” = opposed punishing the defeated powers (already lost :-/) • Other Allies wanted revenge • Reparations: cash payments for the losses they had suffered during the war • “War Guilt Clause”: Germany accepts responsibility for the war
Harsh Terms for GermanyJune 1919 • Treaty of Versailles: treaty signed on June 28th, 1919 by Germany & the Allies; formally placed the responsibility for the war on Germany and its allies • Germany wasn’t even allowed to send delegates to the peace talks • Do you think that’s constructive or unconstructive? Why? • None of the Allies were satisfied (it’s hard to please everyone!)
Treaty of Versailles - Germany had to pay Allies HUGE reparations • Cost of pensions for Allied soldiers/ their widows & children • Reparation costs would exceed $300 billion • Do you think a country that just LOST a war would be able to choke that up? • Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France • Germany was stripped of its overseas colonies (now under GB or France)
The Fight for the Versailles Treaty • Majority favored the treaty • peace • A minority opposed it • Too soft on defeated powers • German-Americans thought it too harsh • Used as a Republican platform to rip Wilson (D) apart • Isolationists: people who wanted the U.S. to stay out of world affairs & opposed the LON
The Defeated Treaty • Wilson wouldn’t budge on how crucial his LON was…but people didn’t want it as much as he did • He go so stressed out promoting it that he had a stroke • Loose ends at the end of a war would now serve as a platform for future wars Waaaahhhh!!!