1. Tuesdat, April 16, 2012
Take out your Middle East Documents
Begin Warm-Up
Warm-Up
With you partners briefly summarize the main ideas of the packet.
What do these documents tell you about the relationship between the Middle East and the British and French? Why?
Why is this period of time considered to be the turning point in relations between the Middle East and the West?

2. Today’s Agenda Warm/Group Discussions
Focus Notes: “The Treaty of Versailles and Territorial Changes of WWI”
Homework:
Major Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
Socratic Seminar Prep
Objective – Discuss and evaluate the phrase “A peace built on quicksand”. Was this a fair peace why or why not?

3. The Treaty of Versailles and Territorial Changes of WWI

4. Today’s Standard
Standard’s 10.5/10.6 Understand the human and financial costs of WWI, and explain how this lead to the negotiations and eventually the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
How did the Peace Process of WWI change the “face” of Europe and lay the foundation for WWII?

6. WW 1 Secret Treaties: Sykes-Picot Agreement [1916]
May 1916
Secret agreement between France and Britain, agreed to by Russia – all received land
divided the Ottoman Empire
Turning point in the relationship b/w the Middle East and the West.

7. The Middle East in the 1920s

8. Balfour Declaration [1917]
Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild.
I have much pleasure to convey to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations {hopes} which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
“His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate {assist} the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
British Foreign Secretary 8

9. British Palestine Mandate in 1923

10. The Allies Meet at Versailles
January 18, Paris Peace Conference at the Palace of Versailles begins
Delegates from 32 countries meet
Russia and Germany & its allies are NOT represented

11. The Big Four
Major decisions at Peace Conference were made by the Big Four:
Woodrow Wilson: United States
David Lloyd George: Great Britain
Georges Clemenceau: France
Vittorio Orlando: Italy

12. The Big Four

13. Major Provisions of Treaty
League of Nations: 5 Allied Powers and 32 allied and neutral nations; Germany & Russia excluded; goal is everlasting peace
Territorial Losses: Alsace-Lorraine & colonies in Africa & Pacific

14. League of Nations Mandates in Africa

15. German Pacific Colonies [1914]

16. Military Restrictions: reduced size of Germany’s army; restricted importing & manufacturing of weapons
War Guilt: Article 231; Germany was held solely responsible; had to pay allies $33 Billion

17. New Nations &Territories After WW I