Aftermath of WWI
Fourteen Points President Wilson, January 1918 Outlined aims of postwar Self-determination Freedom of the Seas Freedom of Trade Readjustment of colonial claims League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles June 1919 Creation of Nation States Punishment of Germany League of Nations David Lloyd George, Orlando Vittorio, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson
Post WWI Creation of Nation States
Post WWI Punishment of Germany $33 billion in reparations Limits on Germany’s military French occupation of the Rhineland “If I were Germany, I think I should not sign it…” - Woodrow Wilson
Post WWI League of Nations Idea of collective security Republicans in the U.S. opposed
“it lynches…It disenfranchises…It encourages ignorance…It insults us…This is the country to which we Soldiers of Democracy return. This is the fatherland for which we fought! But it is our fatherland. It was right for us to fight…We return fighting. Make way for Democracy!” W.E.B. DuBois Excerpt from The Crisis
Disillusionment & Red Scare Was any of the fighting worth it? U.S. Isolationism Warren G. Harding & the campaign for a “return to normalcy” All Quiet on the Western Front, 1928
The Bolsheviks U.S. fought the Red Army Funding given to the White Army U.S. Military exits in 1920 Fear of communist spread
The First Red Scare Fear of labor becoming Soviet-style revolution Palmer Raids, 1919-20 J. Edgar Hoover & investigations of Americans American Protective League Crushing the IWW
The First Red Scare Sacco & Vanzetti Italian immigrants Anarchists Convicted of murder in 1920
Aftermath of WWI Key terms: Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bolsheviks, Palmer Raids, J. Edgar Hoover, American Protective League