1. Do Now 2/5/16
Some of you have been asked this before, now is your chance to elaborate!
If you could have lunch with anyone from history, who would it be and why?
List three questions you would ask them.

2. Unit V, Notes #9 Winning the War and Losing the Peace

3. Some Key Ideas/Innovations (no you don’t need to write these down)
The Convoy System
-Submarine Warfare
Mechanized Warfare
-Tanks and planes introduced
The Selective Service Act
-Soldiers drafted into war
Trench Warfare

7. Kaiser William II is forced to abdicate
Why did Germany Quit?
Kaiser William II is forced to abdicate
Abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne, especially in a formal manner:

8. Germany was seeking an armistice and calls for a revolution
Large number of Germans, including the military wanted the Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate

9. After the war President Wilson had a plan for peace called
The Fourteen Points

10. What were some of Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
1. No more secret treaties.
2. Maintain freedom of the seas.
3. Lower tariffs to foster free trade.
4. Reduce arms to a level consistent with domestic safety
5. Countries should consider the needs of their colonies.
6. Create a League of Nations.
Forum for solving problems

11. What did the Treaty of Versailles call for?
Created 9 new countries from land that once belonged to Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.
Gave the Ottoman Empire to France and England.
Demilitarized Germany
No air force
Small Army- 100,000
Tiny Navy
Reparations- Germany had to pay $33 Billion

15. The Treaty of Versailles, cont.
War Guilt Clause
Germany had to assume all responsibility for the war.
Other Weaknesses
Humiliated Germany
Ignored the new government in USSR/Russia
Created global instability
Removed Colonial holdings of Germany
-US Senate doesn’t allow US to join League of Nations