1. Bell Ringer What organization made the poster?
What was the one successful program from this organization?
What other government organization was more successful?

2. Ending the “War to End All Wars”

3. “To the victor, go the spoils”
“He who wins the war writes the history”

4. November 11, 1918
@11am

5. A Plan for Peace: Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Designed to solve the problems that caused the war to happen in the first place
Outlined a plan for creating a “just and lasting peace”
Points 1-4: Ending secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade, and reducing national armies and navies
Point 5: Adjustment of colonial claims with fairness toward colonial peoples
Point 6-13: Specific suggestions for changing borders and creating new nations
Point 14: Proposed a “general association of nations” that would protect “great and small states alike”

6. Paris Peace Conference
David Lloyd George
(GB)
Woodrow Wilson
(USA)
Vittorio Orlando
(Italy)
Georges Clemenceau
(France)
Where’s Russia?

7. Hall of Mirrors

8. Treaty of Versailles
Other Allied nations felt Wilson’s plan as too lenient
League of Nations: Member nations would help preserve peace and prevent future wars (diplomacy and negotiation)
Losses for Germany:
Officially blamed for the war
Stripped of its military
Its territories were split up
Required to pay reparations of $33 billion!

9. Inflation: The general rising of prices over time
Effects for Germany
Inflation: The general rising of prices over time
Hyper-inflation: An extreme increase in prices over a short period of time
The German reichsmark became virtually worthless

10. When trouble rears its ugly head, people need…
A Hero?
A Hero!

11. American Reaction to the Treaty of Versailles
Senate must approve Treaty of Versailles for it to take effect
“Irreconcilables”: Senators that did not want the Treaty passed; led by Henry Cabot Lodge
Article X: required the US to help a League nation if it were attacked
Would entangle the US in European affairs
Could take away Congress’ war powers

12. American Reaction to the Treaty of Versailles
Bitter fight between Wilson and the Senate
Treaty isn’t ratified and America doesn’t join the League of Nations
America retreats into isolationism

13. Kellogg-Briand Pact: Outlawed war; nice idea, not gonna happen.
Forging Peace
The Washington Disarmament Conference: Would limit the weapons held by each country; no method of enforcement.
Kellogg-Briand Pact: Outlawed war; nice idea, not gonna happen.
Dawes Plan: US gave $200M loan to Germany to spur its economy and begin paying reparations.
Charles Dawes, an American banker and current VP, gave a $200 million loan from US banks would help stabilize the German economy
It set a more realistic repayment plan than the German reparations plan under the Treaty of Versailles
They could pay back Britain and France, who could then repay the US