1. Is it possible to create world peace?

2. Two students, John and Steve, got into a fight on the second floor
Two students, John and Steve, got into a fight on the second floor. In the fight, John got a black eye and Steve got a bloody nose. They were both brought down to the dean’s office where they were told by him that they must shake hands and forgive each other. *Did the dean do a good job handling the situation? *Was he being realistic? *How is this situation similar to what is going on in the world in 1918?

3. C-Band Report Card: World Peace
E, G, S
Good leaders
Trade—everyone trades with each other
Equality—don’t choose sides
No fighting—stay neutral
All countries come together and talk their problems out
International laws that keep peaces F
Fighting don’t talk things out
Threaten/invade other countries
Declare war
Break promises
Kill people

4. D-Band Report Card: World Peace
E, G, S
Stay neutral---no fights or getting involved
No trade or trade with everyone
No weapons or reduce weapons or army
Talk problems out instead of fighting
Create a treaty so there are no more fights
International law F
Picking sides
Trading with certain countries

5. F-Band Report Card: World Peace
E, G, S
Countries working together
Everyone trades with each other
Compromise---come to solution without fighting
Agreement—treaty
Don’t create alliances—no sides
Help countries in need out F
Fights break out, riots
Killing people
Take land

6. WWI ENDS! November 11, 1918 Armistice Germany was defeated
both sides (Central and Allied Powers) agreed to stop fighting
Germany was defeated
Allied Powers win the war
Allied Powers create a peace plan

7. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
January 8, 1918
Wilson gives his 14 Point Speech to Congress
First 13 Points
World where conflicts would be settled without war
14th Point
Creation of an organization where countries would work together to keep peace (League of Nations)
Winners of war object to Wilson’s idea- more concerned with protecting their own interests than with creating lasting peace

8. BIG FOUR PILLS Worth Millions
You’ve got to swallow it whether you like it or not!
German Kaiser Wilhelm
Peace
Terms
British Empire
France
America
Italy
Japan
BIG FOUR
PILLS
Worth Millions

9. Treaty of Versailles
Diplomats from more than 30 nations met Versailles to negotiate five separate peace treaties
Key issues were decided by Allied nations
The Big Four: Woodrow Wilson (U.S.), David Lloyd George (Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
England, France, Italy wanted to punish the Germans

10. Treaty of Versailles
All of Germany’s colonies and lands they took before WWI were taken away and divided among Great Britain and France.
Germany was not allowed to have submarines or military airplanes. They can only have very small army.
Germany had to tell the world that they started the war (take the blame) and they had to pay for the entire war (33 billion dollars in reparations)
Establish a League of Nations
Protect the independence of all countries-large or small

11. Europe Before WWI Europe After WWI

12. What was the U.S. viewpoint of joining the League of Nations
League of Nations- President Woodrow Wilson created the League to prevent future wars by allowing nations to talk over their problems.

13. This cartoon shows how everyone expected different things from the League of Nations. Everyone was trying to "pull" it different ways.

14. U.S. Senate Rejects Treaty of Versailles
Reasons:
Politics- Republicans did not favor Wilson’s Fourteen Points
“Entangling Alliances”- did not want to get involved in foreign affairs
Military Powers shared with foreign leaders
The U.S. would lose control over it’s affairs!

15. Isolationism
Isolationists- people who wanted the U.S. to stay out of world affairs
Opposed the League of Nations

16. Isolationism in the U.S. What is the man doing in this cartoon?
How does it relate to the idea of Isolationism?

17. U.S. and the Peace Treaty 1921 U.S. finally signs treaty with Germany
Many nations already joined the League of Nations
League of Nations eventually failed