1. Agenda Warm Up Quick Quiz Stations of WWI Technology
Discussion: The Homefront and the End of War
Chart of Leaders World War I
HW: Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points

2. Warm Up
What led to the United States getting into WWI? Why did the answer from question one make the US get into WWI?

3. Quick Quiz Time

4. WWI Tech Stations

5. The Homefront and the End of War

6. Total War War was not only on the battlefield, but also for civilians.
Governments took control of the economy, and transformed them to help in the war effort.
Rationing is common, everything from steel to butter was limited by the war effort.

7. Allies Win the War
Russia withdraws from the war, and the United States enters on the Allied side.
This allows Germany to attempt a final offensive with all forces.
A force of 2 million American troops along with other allied forces begin moving towards Germany after Second Battle of Marne.

8. Meeting at Versailles
The war ends with the German Kaiser abdicating his throne on November 9th.
11/11/1918, the war ends, at the eleventh hour.
The peace process begins with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

9. Peace Terms
All major decisions of the conference handled by Britain, France, United States, and Italy.
Germany and the new Soviet Union not represented.
Wilson calls for his plan of fourteen points to guarantee peace process.

10. Wilson’s Plan, and What they Adopted.
Fourteen Points:
1-5, an end to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, and free trade.
6-13, specific suggestions for creating new nations and borders.
14, a general association of nations to coordinate a world peace.

11. The Results
The French wanted to punish Germany and strip them of war-making powers.
Treaty of Versailles finally signed June 28th, 1919.
League of Nations created, but it was a weak organization.
Germany lost substantial territory, restrictions placed on military, and reparations had to be paid.

12. New Countries
Separate land treaties caused the loss of lands for Central powers.
Austria and Hungary separate nations, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia independent as well.
Russia had land losses, and Ottoman Empire all but eliminated.

14. Use of Propaganda Utilized to exert a viewpoint to the war.
US propaganda vilified the Germans.
Positive propaganda would be used to support the war effort.

16. World War One Leaders
Triple Alliance (Central Powers) Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm II Austria-Hungary: Franz Joseph I Ottoman Empire: Mehmed Talat Pasha Triple Entente (Allies) Britain: David Lloyd George France: Georges Clemenceau Russia/Soviet Union: Tsar Nicholas II/ Vladimir Lenin (1917) United States: Woodrow Wilson

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