Mr.  Pettit
APUSH
WILSON,  THE  DOUGHBOYS,  AND  THE  END  OF  WWI
By  autumn  of  1918,  U.S.  soldiers  (doughboys)  had  suffered  120,000  casualties.
However  these  men  also  became  an  increasingly  more  important  factor  in  the
Allied  attack  plans,  which  led  to  a  victory  over  German  forces  in  the  Argonne
Forest  by  early  November.
THE  POST  WAR  WORLD,  PREPARING  FOR  PEACE:
-­‐Germany  signed  an  armistice  on  November  11,  1918.
“the  victors  must  build  a  better  society,  not  punish  those  they  believed  had                 destroyed  the  old.”
The  Fourteen  Points:
-­‐ Wilson’s  peace  plan.
-­‐called  for  a  creation  of  a  League  of  Nations.
-­‐Wilson  hoped  that  these  points  would  become  the  basis  of  a  peace  treaty                 constructed  around  his  moral  and  idealistic  approach  to  the  post  war.
-­‐Wilson  then  travelled  to  Paris  to  meet  with  the  other  members  of  the   “Big
Four.”
1.    Wilson,  U.S.A.
2.    Georges  Clemenceau,  France
3.      David  Lloyd  George,  Great  Britain
4.      Vittorio  Orlando,  Italy

Peace  Conference/Versailles  Treaty:
-­‐Most  of  Wilson’s  fourteen  points  discarded.
-­‐Wilson  insists  upon  a  league  of  Nations,  it  is  created.
-­‐Germany  suffered  immensely;  33  billion  in  reparations.    (war  guilt  clause)
Back  Home:    Rejection  in  the  Senate:
-­‐Wilson  set  off  on  grueling  cross  country  speaking  tour  to  raise  support  for
the  League  of  Nations.
-­‐tragicaly  he  suffered  a  stroke  in  Pueblo,  Colorado  after  a  speech.
-­‐The  U.S.  never  ratified  the  Versailles  Treaty  with  the  League  of  Nations  due   to  strong  Republican  opposition  led  by  Henry  Cabot  Lodge.
-­‐Opinions  on  the  Senate  were  broken  down  into  3  groups
-­‐“irreconcilables ”    staunch  isolationists,  against  any  treaty  that     included  the  League  of  Nations.
-­‐“reservationists ”    both  mild,  and  strong.    Politicians  such  as  Lodge
who  wanted  to  make  changes  to  the  treaty  for  a  variety  of  reasons.