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Do Now. Please get out your notes from yesterday. Please get out a new a piece of paper and/or your History notebook. Please turn in your propaganda poster in the basket. Housekeeping. Pass back work Website Remind 101 Discussion board http://phs.pusdk12.org/index.html Grades
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Do Now • Please get out your notes from yesterday. • Please get out a new a piece of paper and/or your History notebook. • Please turn in your propaganda poster in the basket.
Housekeeping • Pass back work • Website • Remind 101 • Discussion board • http://phs.pusdk12.org/index.html • Grades • all assignments for the unit due next Thursday (WWI exam day) • Holocaust video permission slip
One Last Offensive • March 1918 Germany targeted weakest points of the Western Front. • Allies responded, pushed Germany back across France and Belgium • Allies of Germany were signing armistices, leaving Germany completed isolated
Armistice: 11am, November 11, 1918 • Armistice with the Allies signed by Germany, ending World War I
The Human Cost • War casualties reached 30+ million • More than 240,000 amputee soldiers • 50,000-60,000 soldiers suffered from shell shock • Civilians suffered at home with destroyed cities and extreme famine
Treaty of Versailles • Who: Allies and Germany • When: 1919 • Where: Paris (Versailles, France) • Why: Formal end of WWI, negotiate peace with Germany
Establishing the PeaceIn 1919, the “Big 3” met in Paris to negotiate the Treaty: Who’s missing?? David Lloyd George of Britain Georges Clemenceau of France Vittorio Orlando Woodrow Wilson of Italy of the U.S
Major Players and Goals • Woodrow Wilson (USA) - “Peace without Victory” promote idea of League of Nations • David Lloyd George (Britain) - Harsh treatment for Germans • Georges Clemenceau (France) - Weaken Germany so it could never make war on France again • Vittorio Orlando (Italy) - Wanted land from Austria-Hungary Other peoples wanted their own countries in areas that had been Russia, Germany, Austria- Hungary
President Wilson’s 14 Pointscreated in January 1918, Wilson hoped to establish a peace that would resolve the war and future wars.
The Treaty of VersaillesGermany was ordered to sign the treaty created by the Allies Military Restrictions -Limited German Army and Navy -Banned Air Force in Germany The treaty adopted Wilson’s 14th point and created the League of Nations