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A Day 2/15/2012 B Day 2/16/2012

A Day 2/15/2012 B Day 2/16/2012. Objective TLW analyze the causes, characteristics, and consequences (3C’s) of World War I through Class Notes, and Independent Studies Agenda TAKS Progressive Quiz #6 America Enters the War Class Notes Results of WWI Class Notes WWI Video Project.

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A Day 2/15/2012 B Day 2/16/2012

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  1. A Day 2/15/2012 B Day 2/16/2012 • Objective • TLW analyze the causes, characteristics, and consequences (3C’s) of World War I through Class Notes, and Independent Studies • Agenda • TAKS Progressive Quiz #6 • America Enters the War Class Notes • Results of WWI Class Notes • WWI Video Project

  2. America Declares War!!! REVIEW

  3. Why did America enter the War? • Lusitania • Ultimatum • President Woodrow Wilson gave Germans an ultimatum (final demands) to stop sinking them (allowing civilians to escape on lifeboats). However, Germans soon announced they would resume warfare. • Language and Cultural ties • America had language and cultural ties with England, and they sympathized with France because they were also a democracy • Zimmerman Note • April 1917

  4. Why did America enter the War? • Zimmerman Note • Supposedly Germany sent a note to Mexico asking for assistance. In return Germany promised to help Mexico reclaim Texas. When the note was intercepted this angered the Americans • April 1917 • On 3 February 1917, President Wilson addressed Congress to announce that diplomatic relations with Germany were severed. In a Special Session of Congress held on 2 April 1917, President Wilson delivered this 'War Message.' Four days later, Congress overwhelmingly passed the War Resolution which brought the United States into the Great War.

  5. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points • Plan of Woodrow Wilson to stop all future wars • End to secret treaties • Free-Trade • Freedom of the seas • Reduced national armies and navies • Adjustment of colonial claims • Self-determination for new nations in Europe • The creation of a “general association of nations” • Creation of the League of Nations

  6. Germany Surrenders • Once Russia was out of the war and the US entered into the war, Germany tried one last offensive. Their army was worn down and ineffective. It was too much for Germany, and in early November 1918, the Kaiser resigned and fled the county. The generals decided to seek peace terms

  7. Armistice • An agreement to end fighting • Sought by new German government • November 11, 1918, 11:00 a.m. • WWI/ Great War fighting ends…

  8. Political Impact of Treaty of Versailles • Germany took the blame for WWI (Article 231) • Loss of German territory in Europe • Loss of German colonies in Africa and the Pacific • Creation of the League of Nations • Limited the size of the German military (10,000 men) • The U.S. rejected the Treaty of Versailles and signed a separate treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary

  9. Economic Impact of Treaty of Versailles • Germany was prohibited from importing or manufacturing war materials and weapons • Article 231 (War Guilt Clause) forced Germany to pay over $30 billion in war reparations over 30 years • Severe inflation and economic disaster affected Germany after the war since large amounts of paper money were printed to pay off war debts

  10. “One out of every four men who went out to the World War did not come back again and those who came back, many are maimed and blind and some are mad.” - Anonymous WWI survivor

  11. Immediate Effects of WWI • League of Nations • Russian Revolution • Creation of New Nations in Baltic and Eastern Europe • MASSIVE war debts crippled recovery attempt of Germany

  12. Long Term Effects of WWI America did not join the League of Nations. (no power to keep world peace) Power Shift from Europe: US & Japan become world powers Rise of fascism in Germany. Germans need $$ Must ask The Jews for loans. Growth of nationalism in colonies

  13. Secrets of World War I

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