1. US HISTORY REMEDIATION LESSON TOPIC: Efforts to Avoid Future Wars
BENCHMARK: SS.912.A.5.5
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How were the Neutrality Acts an effort to avoid future wars?

2. BELLRINGER QUESTIONS (5 MINUTES)
1. One goal for a lasting peace that President Woodrow Wilson included in his Fourteen Points was:
Establishing a League of Nations
Maintaining a permanent military force in Europe
Returning the United States to a policy of isolationism
Blaming Germany for causing World War I
2. Why did the United States participate in the Washington Conference (1921) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)?
To reduce barriers to international trade
To work with other nations to prevent future wars
To form military alliances as a defense against aggression
To expand American influence over Asia and Latin America`

3. Bellringer continued
3. What did the Washington Naval Conference, the Nine-Power Treaty, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact have in common?
They were attempts at promoting world peace without the League of Nations
They created secret alliances between the former Allied and Central Powers.
They were a series of naval disarmament treaties involving the Allied Powers of World war I.
They were disarmament treaties that limited the number of tanks, use of poison gas, and airplanes.

4. CONTENT APPLICATION
Labeling
Symbolism
Exaggeration
Analogy
Irony

5. “I DO” Washington Naval Conference Four Power Treaty
Agreement to limit the number of battleships to fixed ratios
Four Power Treaty
Guaranteed peace in the Pacific
Nine-Power Treaty
Promise to respect China’s sovereignty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
15 countries pledged to give up war except for self-defense
While refusing to join the League of Nations, the Republican Presidents still attempted to promote world peace and U.S. Business interests.

6. “WE DO”
In groups, using the supporting documents for your assigned neutrality act, discuss how the act was an attempt to promote “world peace”. Be prepared to share out.

7. Washington Naval Conference Four Power Treaty Nine-Power Treaty
“We Do” – Whole Group Share Out
Washington Naval Conference
Four Power Treaty
Nine-Power Treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact

8. Lets review the BELLRINGER
1. One goal for a lasting peace that President Woodrow Wilson included in his Fourteen Points was:
Establishing a League of Nations
Maintaining a permanent military force in Europe
Returning the United States to a policy of isolationism
Blaming Germany for causing World War I
2. Why did the United States participate in the Washington Conference (1921) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)?
To reduce barriers to international trade
To work with other nations to prevent future wars
To form military alliances as a defense against aggression
To expand American influence over Asia and Latin America`

9. Bellringer continued
3. What did the Washington Naval Conference, the Nine-Power Treaty, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact have in common?
They were attempts at promoting world peace without the League of Nations
They created secret alliances between the former Allied and Central Powers.
They were a series of naval disarmament treaties involving the Allied Powers of World war I.
They were disarmament treaties that limited the number of tanks, use of poison gas, and airplanes.

10. “You Do” ESSENTIAL QUESTION-EXIT SLIP
How were the Neutrality Acts an effort to avoid future wars?