Agenda Day 4 Get out your Prompt & Paper, I will walk around and look at your prompt while you are working with your partner. Group work with partner (Act Grading of Paper) Finish your Atlas Packet War on the Home Front Video Start 14 Points Notes Write Down All Green Writing
Learning Goal Day 4 Students will be able to use the skills from last chapter to evaluate their partners imperialism paper. Students will be able to explain the role that Americans played on the home front during WWI. Students will understand the importance of Wilson’s 14 Points & its effect on the world.
The Treaty of Versailles & 14 Points June 1919
The Big Four Woodrow Wilson USA David Lloyd-George Great Britain Vittorio Orlando Italy Georges Clemenceau France
The Big Four at Versailles in 1919
What did America Want? Woodrow Wilson wanted the treaty to be based on his Fourteen Points Germany should be punished but not severely. Creation of The League of Nations which would settle worldwide disputes. American public showed no support The USA became more isolationist. Woodrow Wilson
Terms of the Treaty of Versailles Germany’s Armed Forces German army: Reduced to 100,000 men No tanks No air force Rhineland had to be de-militarised The Allies were to occupy the west bank of the Rhine for fifteen years. No submarines or large battle-ships
Germany lost ALL overseas colonies Territorial Losses
The Saar coalfields were given to France for fifteen years The port of Danzig was made a Free City under the control of the League of Nations
GERMANY ACCEPTED RESPONSIBILITY FOR STARTING THE WAR The War Guilt Clause "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associate Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of a war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her Allies." Article 231 GERMANY ACCEPTED RESPONSIBILITY FOR STARTING THE WAR
REPARATIONS Germany agreed to pay for the damage caused by her armies during the war
Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria
Agenda & Bell Work Handout Review Sheet Test Wednesday Bell Work- Put in your Notes MME 381-382 List the 6 ways that the Allies changed the German Army. What was President Wilson’s main goal from his 14 Points? Handout Review Sheet Test Wednesday
Changes to German Army The German army was to be reduced to 100,000 men. No tanks. No air force Rhineland was to be de-militarised The Allies were to occupy the west bank of the Rhine for fifteen years. No submarines or large battle-ships Wilson’s 14 Points = To Create the League of Nations.