The Quest For Peace
Think About The Following:
You have just come back from student management and been handed a 5 day
suspension by Ray Byzewski. You explained to him that the fight began when
someone else attacked your friend, yet since you jumped in and broke that
person’s nose you received a harsher punishment.
What is your response?? (Do you defend your actions? How can you effectively
state your case? What should the punishment have been?)
A reminder of the terms laid out by the Treaty of Versailles (June 1919):
League of Nations
Territorial Losses
International
Peace
Organization;
membership to
include 32
nations
Germany returns
Alsace-Lorraine
to France
Russia and
Germany
excluded
French border
extended to West
bank of Rhine
River
Germany
surrenders all
overseas colonies
Military
Restrictions
Limits set on size
of German
military
Germany kept
from importing
or manufacturing
weapons or war
material
Germany
forbidden to
build/buy
submarines or
have an air force
War Guilt
Sole
responsibility for
war place on
Germany
Forced to pay $33
Billion in
reparations
Part I – Read excerpts from articles by Raymond Fosdick and Harry Elmer
Barnes. Use the documents to guide your responses
Question
In what sense did Fosdick regard the
Treaty of Versailles as a betrayal of
principles for which Americans fought
during WWI?
Response
Why did Barnes believe that U.S.
involvement in WWI was a calamity?
Question
Response
How, according to Barnes, would the war
have turned out if the U.S. had remained
neutral throughout?
Why does Barnes think that this
“alternate ending” to WWI would have
been preferable?
Part II – You are the political advisor to the President. It is your job to evaluate
the treaty which your group has been given and to try and determine if it will
have its desired effect of making war “less likely.”
Read the excerpts associated with each treaty and complete the briefing
report that follows to give the President your advice.
Group Members/Advisors:
To: The President of the United States
Re: Effectiveness of Five-Power Treaty
Overview: (What does the Treaty say?)
Group Analysis: (What do you think about the comments made regarding the
Treaty? And why?)
Proposal: (Do you recommend that the President endorse this treaty, Why or why
not?)
To: The President of the United States
Re: Effectiveness of Kellogg-Briand Pact
Overview: (What does the Treaty say?)
Group Analysis: (What do you think about the comments made regarding the Pact?
And why?;)
Proposal: (Do you recommend that the President endorse this treaty, Why or why
not?)