Birld War One

How to Play Mr. Kelly will divide the class into teams of three Your team will be assigned a question to answer from Section 4 in your book. You will have 10 minutes to answer the question. You will present your answer to the class. If you are right your team get to take a shot!

How to Play Each teammate gets one shot.

How to Play The team with the highest score wins!

Question 1 What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

Answer 1A No secret treaties among nations Freedom of the seas for all Tariffs (protective taxes) and economic barriers among nations lowered. Encouraged free trade Militaries reduced to smallest amount needed to reduce chance of war. 6-13. Boundary changes in Europe. Self-determination: let the people that live there decide what country the belong to. 14. League of Nations: Forum for nations to address grievances without having to resort to war.

Question 1B Why were Wilson’s Fourteen Points rejected?

Answer 1B European nations (Allied Powers) were angry at Central Power and wanted them to pay.

Question 2ABC Who or what is the Big Four?

Answer 2ABC A. Woodrow Wilson (USA) B. David Lloyd George (Great Britain) C. Vittorio Orlando (Italy) D. Georges Clemenceau (France) Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey were left out.

Question 3ABCex What new European countries were created by the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 3ABCex A. Poland B. Czechoslovakia C. Yugoslavia Ex: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Hungary

Question 4A-D What terms of the treaty specifically affected Germany?

Answer 4A-D A. Germany couldn’t have a military B. Germany returned territories of Alsace-Lorraine to France C. Germany would pay reparations, war damages, to the Allies ($35 billion) D. Carved up German territory to make new nations (Czechoslovakia and Poland)

Question 5A-C What were the weaknesses of the treaty?

Answer 5A-C A. Treaty humiliated Germany: War Guilt Clause: Germany had to admit sole responsibility for starting WWI. B. Germany could not pay huge reparations, or war damages. C. Germany was stripped of colonial possessions in the Pacific, making it even harder to pay reparations.

Question 7 Why did Henry Cabot Lodge object to the treaty?

Answer 7 He was suspicious of provision for joint economic and military action against aggression. The U.S. Senate wanted to keep the right to declare war, not be force to declare it by some foreign country.

Question 8 How did Wilson help bring about the Senate’s rejection of the treaty?

Answer 8 Wilson refused to compromise with the Senate-he also did not take Republican delegates to help negotiate the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 9 What circumstances at this time would eventually lead many Germans to support Adolf Hitler?

Answer 9 So many people died, Germany was broke, it’s new democracy was unstable. This created decades of political instability. This allowed people like Hitler to seize power. The shame of defeat in WWI and the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles led many Germans to support Hitler.

Answer 9 "I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it." (Woodrow Wilson in response to Treaty of Versailles, 1919) Germany starts WWII in 1939.

Question 10A-C What were the domestic (at home) consequences of WWI?

Answer 10A-C A. U.S. military and government become more powerful B. Quickened social change for women (vote, jobs) and African Americans (jobs, draft) C. Propaganda created fears that were taken out on U.S. citizens after the war.

Question 11 Wilson proposed that we enter the war to “make the world safe for democracy.” Did the Americans succeed? Explain your answer.

Question 11A Generally speaking, no. The Treaty of Versailles created issues in Germany which would drag the world into a second world war. Also, the League of Nations failed. One could argue, yes. After the war, the three empires of the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey) were divided up into new democratic countries (although they were weak and unstable).