1. Chapter 11 Section 4 Making the Peace
Focus Question:
What factors influenced the peace treaties that ended World War I, how did people react to the treaty?
By: Nalacia Nelson, Dulce Vazquez, Chelsie Gray, Melena Alvarez.

2. I. The Cost of War~Nalacia Nelson
A. Effect on People
1. A deadly pandemic, influenza, spread worldwide.
2. World War I killed more people and cost more money than any previous war in history.
B. The Financial Toll
1. In the battle zones from France to Russia, homes, farms, factories, and churches had been shelled into rubble.
2. The battered world of war had to pay off reconstruction and war debts.
3. Bitter people felt shaken and disillusioned.
4. The allies blamed the conflict on the defeated foes and insisted they pay reparations, payments on war damage.

3. 5. Central powers looked for scapegoats to blame their defeat on.
C. Political Turmoil
1. Governments in Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empire collapsed.
2. Radicals dreamed of building a new social leader from chaos.
3. Unrest swept through Europe’s colonial empires.

4. In early WW1, there was a mysterious disease getting all the soldiers sick, this was known as Trench Fever. Trench Fever, caused by lice and ticks, is a bacterial infection that causes repeated cycles of high fever. Symptoms include a fever up to 104°F, characteristic blanching, macular rash, and bone and muscle tenderness. There was also Trench Mouth. It was a severe form of gingivitis that causes painful, infected, bleeding gums. It was caused by poor treatment of the teeth.

5. II. The Paris Peace Conference ~Dulce Vazquez
A. Conflicting Goals
1. At the Paris Peace Conference the Central powers and Russia were not allowed to take part of the conference.
2. The “Big Three” were the U.S, Great Britain, and France
3. President Wilson wanted to press on his Fourteen Points, which would bring “peace without victory”.
4.The British prime minister David Lloyd George had promised to rebuild England that would cost money.
5.While French leader Georges Clemenceau wanted to weaken Germany so that it could never threaten France.

6. B. Problems With the Peace
1. Wilson had to compromise on his Fourteen points, but he stood firm on his goals of creating an International League of Nations that would be based on the idea of collective security.
2.It is a system in which a group of nations act as one to preserve the peace for all.
3. After the war, European colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific felt betrayed by the out come of the Paris Peace Conference.
4. Many wanted to create their own nations which did not happen

7. Woodrow Wilson was born in Virginia in 1856
Woodrow Wilson was  born in Virginia in He was the son of a minister. Then later on in 1885 Wilson got married to Ellen Louise Axson. Then in 1910 conservative democrats  then persuaded Wilson to run for governor of  New Jersey because of his  national reputation. Woodrow Wilson then became the 28th president of the United states in Was a leader of  the Progressive movement. Through the outbreak of  World War 1 he then asked the senate  to declare war against Germany in In 1918 he gave his "Fourteen Point" speech to congress to propose world peace. In November 1918 Woodrow Wilson went Paris to attend the Paris Peace Conference.

8. III. the Treaty of Versailles ~Chelsie Gray
A. In June of 1919, the Allies ordered representatives of the New German Republic to sign the treaty at the palace of Versailles, right outside Paris.
B. The treaty had Germany assume blame for causing the war. It also had Germany pay huge reparations, or a payment for war damage, that would hurt an already damaged German economy, which was calculated at $30 billion.
1. The treaty was negotiated among Allied powers with little participation from Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned reparations.

9. C. Other parts of the treaty were meant to weaken Germany
C. Other parts of the treaty were meant to weaken Germany. The treaty limited the size of Germany’s military in a major way.
D.The German’s had no choice but to sign the treaty.
1. The German’s resented the treaty and as a result would cause a deadlier World war in the future.

10. The treaty of Versailles was treaty that ended the war and basically blamed Germany for the cause of World War 1. Germany was then forced to pay reparations, or a payment for war damage, which calculated to about $30 million, now if it were in modern days, reparations would have been about $2.7 trillion dollars. The treaty had 15 parts and 440 articles that assigned Germany’s reparations and limited their military.
The treaty was written with the goal to weaken Germany and had pretty much no German participation in the writing of this document. Germany signed the treaty simply because they had no other choice. As a result, terrorists assassinated many politicians that they deemed responsible for writing the treaty. They felt they were cheated and treated unfairly.

11. IV.Outcome of the Peace settlements ~Melena Alvarez
A. Self-Determination in Eastern Europe
1. The Baltic states of Lativa, Lithuania, and Estonia fought for and achieved independence.
2. The Treaty of Versailles became known on the Baltic coast.
3. Poland became an independent nation by the Treaty of Versailles.
B. The Mandate System
1. Mandate system was an agreement between the Allies.
2. Colonial leaders from european colonies expected that the peace would bring respect and end imperial rule.

12. 3. The Treaties created a system of mandates.
C. The league of Nations offers hope.
1. 40 nations joined the league.
2. They negotiated on the disagreement rather than starting war.
3. When Wilson returned to the United States the senate resisted him. The senate did not ratify the treaty.
4. Republican senators wanted to restrict the treaty so the League of Nations would have been successful with the United States.

13. The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty. It ended the state of war between Germany and the allied powers ( Britain, France, Russia, and Italy). It was signed June 28, 1918 after World War one.
    The treaty was signed near Paris at the Versailles palace. It was held there because of its huge capacity for the people some significant representatives were David Lloyd George for Britain, Georges Clemenceau for France, Thomas Woodrow Wilson for the United States, and Friedrich Ebert for Germany.
     Wilson wanted peace to be long lasting. He also wanted  League of Nations to make sure to prevent more wars and conflict.Frances Clemenceau wanted Germany to pay for the war, and Lloyd George agreed with Wilson.