Lesson One
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League Successes/Failures & German
Reparations
Outcomes (SWBAT)
o Identify the working parts of the League of Nations and their functions
o Identify important Covenants that guided the League’s decisions
o Compare League successes versus failures, synthesizing the two to conclude
whether internationalism was too idealistic in the post WWI world
o Apply Article 14 (disarmament) to the many conferences held that attempted
to reduce the arms race that many believed caused WWI
o Look at the ways that the Allies attempted to aid the Germans in making
reparations
Activities
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Peace and Security – Lesson one readings responder quiz
League of Nations. Diagram this on the white board as students follow
with outline sheet.
DBQ – “America and the League”… student time to look this over and
answer some questions. Take up in class.
German Reparations. Use map on board as students take down
information.
post lesson responders quiz
Materials
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Russ Rev Unit Test and key
Peace and Security responders quiz
League of Nations – notes and student sheets
DBQ – America and the League
German Reparations – map and notes
Post lesson responder quiz
History 12
Ms. Lacroix
Name _________________________________
AMERICA & THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
A. Extract from “Britain and the World since
1970”, by H.K. Middleton.
“Congress refused to agree to the peace treaty,
and kept the USA out of the League. Many
American politicians claimed that the USA had
already won the war for the allies. Now Europe
and the rest of the world should try to solve their
own problems. In the meantime, the allied
countries should pay back to the USA all the
money they had borrowed to fight the war.”
C. Speech by Woodrow Wilson, 1919.
“The question is whether we can refuse the moral
leadership that is offered us, whether we shall
accept or reject the confidence of the world.
D. Speech by Theodore Roosevelt, 1919.
“Mr. Wilson has no authority whatsoever to
speak for the American people at this time… His
fourteen points and four supplementary points
and all his utterances every which way have
ceased to have any shadow of right to be accepted
as expressive of the will of the American people.”
E. From “The Forgotten Men of Versailles”,
by Harry Hansen.
“The great achievement of the peace conference
was the League of Nations. Even though the
American Congress rejected the work of an
American president, it is a milestone in the
history of man’s slow progress towards the
control and outlawry of war. For twenty years
afterwards the American people deluded
themselves that, because the League sat in far-off
Geneva and had no official association with it, it
did not concern us. Without our political support,
the League was preponderantly a British bulwark,
and it could not make its sanctions against Italy
effective in the Ethiopian crisis. It took a second
world war, with its terrible cost, to bring the
United States into the United Nations. If a nation
can sit in sackcloth and ashes, the United States
should do so for its selfish rejection of the
League.”
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What point is the cartoonist trying to make in Source B?
Assess the reliability of Sources C and D as evidence about America
and the League of Nations.
To what extent do these documents suggest that the United States
was responsible for the failure of the League of Nations?