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1. Causes of WWI
1. Immediate Cause----June 28, 1914
• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria
2. Hostile alliances take effect---War declared

Central Powers vs. Allied Powers

• Germany Great Britain
• Austria/Hungary France
• Ottoman Empire Russia
• Trench warfare and the Western Front

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3. President Wilson

• Calls for neutrality = conflicting sympathies
• US belief = right to trade with all nations
• Germany and Great Britain violated this policy.

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4. From neutrality to war.

• German policy
• Unrestricted submarine warfare = USW
• U-Boat, sunk the Lusitania (May 7, 1915)
• Zimmerman Note: Jan. 1917

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5. April 8, 1917 US declares war on Germany……

• Germans violated our trade and neutrality
• War to end all war
• The world must be made safe for democracy
• Side with the Allies

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1. President Wilson: The War to End All War
1. War outlook in Jan. 1917
• Poor for Allies: Why?
2. U.S. troops in France---American Expeditionary Forces
• Led by General John J. Pershing
• US Troops

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2. Actions of Wilson and Congress

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3. Women in WWI

• worked in the factories
• 19^th Amendment----women’s suffrage

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4. End of War

• Nov. 11^th = 11-11-11 = end of the war
• Germans sign an armistice

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1. President Wilson’s 14 Points

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2. Treaty of Versailles = Big 4 countries

• Germany was forced to
• pay war debts = reparations---$53 billion
• Remain disarmed
• Lost all colonies
• Responsible for war
• Created new countries

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3. Wilson’s Problems at Home

• Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
• Does not join the League of Nations…….Why?
• Lodge vs. Wilson
• Draw U.S. into another war
• Took away Congress’s power to declare war.
• Americans wanted neutrality

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4. Results of Treaty of Versailles

• New democracies would fail without US aid
• Germany: treaty of revenge = leads to WWII

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5. Post war adjustments….

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14 pts

President Wilson’s 14 Points were his ideas to “end all war”. These are a summary of his ideas for world peace. Are they realistic or based on idealism?

• Open diplomacy or no secret treaties.
• Freedom of the seas.
• Free trade.
• Countries reduce colonies and weapons
• International control of colonies…..

• Formation of new countries with self-government as a goal.�(Democracy)
• A “league of nations” to guarantee peace among nations.�(Collective Security)

Wilson’s Foreign Policy

• Wilson was obsessed with establishing a new world order.
• He believed the US should promote democracy around the world in order to insure peace.
• Believed that all nations could work together to end war
• AND, a country’s foreign policy decisions should be based on honesty and unselfishness…
• Events around the world, however, kept him from ever realizing his dream.

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14 pts

President Wilson’s 14 Points were his ideas to “end all war”. These are a summary of his ideas for world peace. Are they realistic or based on idealism?

• Open diplomacy or no secret treaties.
• Freedom of the seas.
• Free trade.
• Countries reduce colonies and weapons
• International control of colonies…..

• Formation of new countries with self-government as a goal.�(Democracy)
• MOST IMPORTANT: A “league of nations” to guarantee peace among nations.�(Collective Security)

• One of Wilson’s ideas, the formation of a League of Nations.
• The League of Nations was designed to bring the nations of the world together to ensure peace and security.
• Collective Security of larger nations to keep world peace.

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• When President Wilson went to Paris, France, he was welcomed like he was a God.
• Countries were convinced that his 14 points could “end all war”.
• But, the hatred of the Allied nations led to the Treaty of Versailles to be a “Treaty of Revenge” against Germany.

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Wilson Forced to Compromise

• Although Wilson claimed that he was not interested in the spoils, or rewards, of war, his Allied colleagues were interested in making the Central Powers pay for war damages.
• Wilson was forced to compromise on his 14 Points so he could negotiate for the League of Nations.

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• Open diplomacy or no secret treaties.
• Freedom of the seas.
• Removal of tariff and other economic barriers or free trade.
• Reduction of land and weapons
• International control of colonies, with self-government as the goal.
• Self-determination of ethnic groups to decide in which country they wish to live.
• A “general association of nations” to guarantee peace and the independence of all nations.

Not included

�Not included

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�Germany disarmed and forced to pay reparations of $53 billion

�Germany looses colonies were given to Allied victors.

New countries form democracies based on ethnic groups

League of Nations Organization of larger nations to maintain world peace

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• Wilson believed he could “end all war” with his 14 points for world peace.
• But, Allied countries had their own self-interest and agendas in mind.
• Wilson had to compromise most of his 14 points to get his “league of nations”

• Wilson warned Allies not to be to harsh on Germany because it could lead to future problems.

New Countries

Czechoslovakia

Austria

Hungary

Yugoslavia

Poland

Lithuania

Finland

Latvia

Estonia

Turkey

Iraq

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• President of Princeton
• Democrat
• Believed in the League of Nations as the only way to end all war
• Would only accept his ideas and not Congress’s

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• Graduate of Harvard
• Republican
• Believed League of Nations would take away Congress’s power to declare war
• Made additions to the League of Nations, Wilson would not accept them

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ARTICLE 10

The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression, the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.

Problems Senator Lodge Had With LON

• Power of Congress to declare war
• Get US involved in a war with no self-interest
• How would it effect the Monroe Doctrine Policy?
• Will the LON guarantee a just and lasting peace?
• Goes against our policy of no “foreign alliances”

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• Was Wilson’s League of Nations and his belief in “ending all war” based on idealism or reality?
• Could the world eliminate war?

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• Without the assistance of the of the United States the League of Nations was doomed to failure.

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Afghanistan—1934 Luxembourg--1920

Albania—1920 (taken over by Italy Mexico--1930

in 1939) Netherlands

Argentina New Zealand

Australia Nicaragua (withdrew, 1936)

Austria (taken over by Germany Norway

In 1938) Panama

Belgium Paraguay (withdrew, 1936)

Bolivia Persia

Brazil (withdrew, 1926) Peru (withdrew,1939)

Bulgaria---1920 Poland

Canada Portugal

Chile (withdrew, 1938) Romania (withdrew, 1940)

China Siam

Colombia Spain (withdrew, 1939)

Costa Rica—1920, withdrew, 1925 Sweden

Cuba Switzerland

Czechoslovakia Turkey--1932

Denmark Union of South Africa

Dominican Republic—1924 USSR—1934, expelled, 1939

Ecuador—1934 United Kingdom

Egypt—1937 Uruguay

El Salvador (withdrew, 1937) Venezuela (withdrew, 1938)

Estonia—1921 Yugoslavia

Ethiopia—1923

Finland—1920

France

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Germany—1926, withdrew, 1933

Greece

Guatemala (withdrew, 1936)

Haiti (withdrew, 1942)

Honduras, (withdrew, 1936)

Hungary—1922, withdrew, 1939

India

Iraq—1932

Ireland—1923

Italy (withdrew, 1937)

Japan (withdrew, 1933)

Latvia—1921

Liberia

Lithuania—1921

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• Return to a peacetime industry and economy
• War boosted American economy and industry.
• United States became a world power, largest creditor and wealthy nation.
• Soldiers were hero’s but found that jobs were scarce.
• African American soldiers, despite their service returned to find continued discrimination.
• The Lost Generation of men who were killed in WWI.
• US returned to neutrality and isolation.
• Did not accept the responsibility of a world power that President Wilson believed the US should take on.