Transcript P6 Chapter 11 Section 4 Lecture

Chapter 11 Section 4
Making the Peace
Focus Question:
What factors influenced the peace
treaties that ended World War I, how
did people react to the treaty?
By: Nalacia Nelson, Dulce Vazquez,
Chelsie Gray, Melena Alvarez.
I. The Cost of War~Nalacia Nelson
A. Effect on People
1. A deadly pandemic, influenza, spread worldwide.
2. World War I killed more people and cost more
money than any previous war in history.
B. The Financial Toll
1. In the battle zones from France to Russia, homes,
farms, factories, and churches had been shelled into
rubble.
2. The battered world of war had to pay off
reconstruction and war debts.
3. Bitter people felt shaken and disillusioned.
4. The allies blamed the conflict on the defeated foes
and insisted they pay reparations, payments on war
damage.
5. Central powers looked for scapegoats to
blame their defeat on.
C. Political Turmoil
1. Governments in Russia, Germany, AustriaHungary and the Ottoman empire collapsed.
2. Radicals dreamed of building a new social
leader from chaos.
3. Unrest swept through Europe’s colonial
empires.
In early WW1, there was a mysterious disease getting all
the soldiers sick, this was known as Trench Fever. Trench
Fever, caused by lice and ticks, is a bacterial infection that
causes repeated cycles of high fever. Symptoms include a
fever up to 104°F, characteristic blanching, macular rash,
and bone and muscle tenderness. There was also Trench
Mouth. It was a severe form of gingivitis that causes
painful, infected, bleeding gums. It was caused by poor
treatment of the teeth.
II. The Paris Peace Conference
~Dulce Vazquez
A. Conflicting Goals
1. At the Paris Peace Conference the Central powers
and Russia were not allowed to take part of the
conference.
2. The “Big Three” were the U.S, Great Britain, and
France
3. President Wilson wanted to press on his Fourteen
Points, which would bring “peace without victory”.
4.The British prime minister David Lloyd George had
promised to rebuild England that would cost money.
5.While French leader Georges Clemenceau wanted to
weaken Germany so that it could never threaten France.
B. Problems With the Peace
1. Wilson had to compromise on his Fourteen
points, but he stood firm on his goals of creating an
International League of Nations that would be based
on the idea of collective security.
2.It is a system in which a group of nations act as one
to preserve the peace for all.
3. After the war, European colonies in Africa, Asia, and
the Pacific felt betrayed by the out come of the Paris
Peace Conference.
4. Many wanted to create their own nations which did
not happen
Woodrow Wilson was born in Virginia in 1856. He was the son of a
minister. Then later on in 1885 Wilson got married to Ellen Louise
Axson. Then in 1910 conservative democrats then persuaded Wilson to
run for governor of New Jersey because of his national reputation.
Woodrow Wilson then became the 28th president of the United states in
1913. Was a leader of the Progressive movement. Through the outbreak
of World War 1 he then asked the senate to declare war against
Germany in 1917. In 1918 he gave his "Fourteen Point" speech to
congress to propose world peace. In November 1918 Woodrow Wilson
went Paris to attend the Paris Peace Conference.
III. the Treaty of Versailles
~Chelsie Gray
A. In June of 1919, the Allies ordered representatives
of the New German Republic to sign the treaty at the
palace of Versailles, right outside Paris.
B. The treaty had Germany assume blame for causing
the war. It also had Germany pay huge reparations, or
a payment for war damage, that would hurt an already
damaged German economy, which was calculated at
$30 billion.
1. The treaty was negotiated among Allied powers
with little participation from Germany, its 15 parts and
440 articles reassigned German boundaries and
assigned reparations.
C. Other parts of the treaty were meant to weaken
Germany. The treaty limited the size of Germany’s
military in a major way.
D.The German’s had no choice but to sign the
treaty.
1. The German’s resented the treaty and as a
result would cause a deadlier World war in the
future.
The treaty of Versailles was treaty that ended the war and basically blamed
Germany for the cause of World War 1. Germany was then forced to pay
reparations, or a payment for war damage, which calculated to about $30
million, now if it were in modern days, reparations would have been about
$2.7 trillion dollars. The treaty had 15 parts and 440 articles that assigned
Germany’s reparations and limited their military.
The treaty was written with the goal to weaken Germany and had
pretty much no German participation in the writing of this document.
Germany signed the treaty simply because they had no other choice. As a
result, terrorists assassinated many politicians that they deemed
responsible for writing the treaty. They felt they were cheated and treated
unfairly.
IV.Outcome of the Peace
settlements
~Melena Alvarez
A. Self-Determination in Eastern Europe
1. The Baltic states of Lativa, Lithuania, and
Estonia fought for and achieved independence.
2. The Treaty of Versailles became known on the
Baltic coast.
3. Poland became an independent nation by the
Treaty of Versailles.
B. The Mandate System
1. Mandate system was an agreement between
the Allies.
2. Colonial leaders from european colonies
expected that the peace would bring respect and
end imperial rule.
3. The Treaties created a system of mandates.
C. The league of Nations offers hope.
1. 40 nations joined the league.
2. They negotiated on the disagreement rather
than starting war.
3. When Wilson returned to the United States the
senate resisted him. The senate did not ratify the
treaty.
4. Republican senators wanted to restrict the
treaty so the League of Nations would have been
successful with the United States.
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty. It ended the state of war between
Germany and the allied powers ( Britain, France, Russia, and Italy). It was
signed June 28, 1918 after World War one.
The treaty was signed near Paris at the Versailles palace. It was held there
because of its huge capacity for the people some significant representatives were
David Lloyd George for Britain, Georges Clemenceau for France, Thomas
Woodrow Wilson for the United States, and Friedrich Ebert for Germany.
Wilson wanted peace to be long lasting. He also wanted League of Nations
to make sure to prevent more wars and conflict.Frances Clemenceau wanted
Germany to pay for the war, and Lloyd George agreed with Wilson.