1. Aftermath of WWI

2. Fourteen Points President Wilson, January 1918
Outlined aims of postwar
Self-determination
Freedom of the Seas
Freedom of Trade
Readjustment of colonial claims
League of Nations

3. Treaty of Versailles June 1919 Creation of Nation States
Punishment of Germany
League of Nations
David Lloyd George, Orlando Vittorio, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson

4. Post WWI
Creation of Nation States

5. Post WWI Punishment of Germany $33 billion in reparations
Limits on Germany’s military
French occupation of the Rhineland
“If I were Germany, I think I should not sign it…”
- Woodrow Wilson

6. Post WWI League of Nations Idea of collective security
Republicans in the U.S. opposed

7. “it lynches…It disenfranchises…It encourages ignorance…It insults us…This is the country to which we Soldiers of Democracy return. This is the fatherland for which we fought! But it is our fatherland. It was right for us to fight…We return fighting. Make way for Democracy!”
W.E.B. DuBois
Excerpt from The Crisis

8. Disillusionment & Red Scare
Was any of the fighting worth it?
U.S. Isolationism
Warren G. Harding & the campaign for a “return to normalcy”
All Quiet on the Western Front, 1928

9. The Bolsheviks U.S. fought the Red Army
Funding given to the White Army
U.S. Military exits in 1920
Fear of communist spread

10. The First Red Scare Fear of labor becoming Soviet-style revolution
Palmer Raids,
J. Edgar Hoover & investigations of Americans
American Protective League
Crushing the IWW

11. The First Red Scare Sacco & Vanzetti Italian immigrants Anarchists
Convicted of murder in 1920

12. Aftermath of WWI
Key terms: Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles, League of
Nations, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bolsheviks, Palmer Raids, J. Edgar
Hoover, American Protective League