Wilson, War and Peace pg CH 10.3
Essential Question 11/5/15 What were the M.A.I.N causes of WWI? Explain HOW they were main causes.
Americans Affect the End of War and Peace 1. Strengthen Allies 2. Fourteen Points (Treaty of Versailles)
Allies Counteract To U-Boats; Convoy Tactics, Successful? Russia Stops Fighting War (1917), Treaty of Brest U.S Arrives to France in June 1917 (Doughboys) Weakens Enemy ** Know distinguished Doughboys from YOUR Reading! (pg. 303)** African Americans in WWI; 369 th Infantry Unit
War Ends; Germany Surrenders in France November 11, 1918 Casualties Peace Without Victory No official winner; Peace is the REAL victory Fourteen Points; Aims, Self Determination, League of Nations Treaty of Versailles
Outcome; Allies Germany must pay reparations, no to everything –BUT- League of Nations Americans on the L.O.N; Irreconcilables v. Reservationists (Henry Cabot Lodge) Power of Congress Would be Weakened Wilson Campaigns L.O.N Created –but- U.S does NOT join
Effects of War pg
Social; Deadly Influenza (Bird Flu), Rights of Minorities Questioned, First Red Scare Political; Return to Simpler Times, Isolationism, Red Scare Economic; Rising Inflation, Job Competition
Bird Flu, Red Scare; Lenin “Communism is the Answer” Violent Radicals & Labor Unions Attorney General Mitchell Palmer Attempts to Stop Communism; Palmer Raids Attacked Civil Liberties American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Return to Simpler Times (Normalcy) ; Election of 1920 Warren Harding U.S Now World Power Creditor Nation
Inflation; Needs for Consumer Goods Few in Circulation High Demand Prices Skyrocket Leads to Labor Unrest; Men Return from War Job Competition Low Wages Unable to purchase necessities Strikes (Communism) Will be followed by an economic boom (The Roaring 20’s, )
Other Worldly Changes Post WWI European Nations Economically and Politically Weakened Rise of Dictatorships in 1930s WWII “War to End All Wars”…. Until WWII