Do Now: Page 639 Answer Questions
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History DVDs
• Letters from WW1 “Surrender”
America Gives the Allies the Edge
• Early 1918
Americans arrive in
large numbers
• Led by General John
J. Pershing
David Lloyd-George
[Great Britain]
Orlando
[Italy]
WHERES
RUSSIA?
Woodrow Wilson
[USA]
Georges Clemenceau
[France]
Wilson Promotes Peace
Without Victory
Wilson’s 14 Points
• Wilson’s plan for world peace
• No secret alliances
• Freedom of the seas
• Free Trade
• Sovereignty for Belgium, and former states of
Russia and Austria Hungary
• Point 14 calls for a League of Nations
• League to enable nations to discuss, settle
problems without war
• European leaders oppose most of Wilson’s
peace plan
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The Allies Reject Wilson’s Plan
• French premier Georges Clemenceau wants to prevent
German invasion
• British Prime Minister David Lloyd George wants to “Make
Germany Pay”
• Italian Vittorio Orlando wants Austrian-held territory
• Conference excludes Central Powers, Russia, small Allied
nations
• Wilson gives up most of his points
in return for League of Nations
• Wilson fails to grasp anger of Allied leaders against Germany
Treaty of Versailles
Provisions of the Treaty
• Treaty of Versailles creates 9 new
nations, British, French mandates
• Places various conditions on
Germany:
- cannot have an army
- pay reparations (33 BILLION),
or war damages
Continued . . .
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Clean sheet of paper, NAME/DATE
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1914--------------------1919
Political Cartoon Analysis
In Pairs or Groups
• For each of the following Political Cartoons
answer the questions next to the cartoon.
The Treaty’s Weaknesses
• War-guilt clause—Germany must accept sole
responsibility for war
• Germany cannot pay $33 billion in reparations that Allies
want
Russia loses more
1.
land than
A. What are
Germany;
these
territorial claims
three men
ignored
doing to
• Colonized
Germany
people’s claims
?
for selfB. Who do
determination
you think
ignored
they
represent
?
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Opposition to the Treaty in US
• Strong opposition to treaty in U.S.
• Some, like Hoover, think treaty too harsh, fear economic effects
• Some feel treaty exchanged one group of colonial rulers for another
• Some ethnic groups not satisfied with new national borders
Debate over the League of Nations
• Some think League threatens U.S. foreign policy of isolationism
• Senators like Henry Cabot Lodge mistrust provision for joint action
2.
A. What does a
dove
represent?
B. What does
this man think
it is?
C. Who is the
man
representing?
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3.
A. What is
happening to
Uncle Sam?
B. Does the
cartoonist
support the
league of
nations?
Why/why not?
History DVDs
• Letters from WW1 “League of Nations”
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson Refuses to
Compromise
• Goes on speaking tour
to convince nation to
support League
• U.S., Germany sign
separate treaty
• BUT Senate rejects the
League of Nations
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4.
A. Who is the architect of this bridge?
B. What does the bridge represent?
C. Who is the keystone missing from the bridge?
D. Does the cartoonist believe the bridge will work?
5.
A British newspaper cartoon, by David Low.
SOURCE WORK: A) First, describe the storyline shown in the cartoon.
B) what is the political message ?
What does the horse represent?
What is
this
referring
to?
Briand,
French
Prime
Minister
Why is the
cart upended?
Why is a
shovel
left here?
Why is
Briand
holding
a whip?
‘Perhaps
‘Perhaps it
it would
would gee-up
gee-up better
better if
if we
we let
let it
it touch
touch earth.’
earth.’
What is meant by the
caption?
Lloyd-George,
British Prime
Minister
6.
A. Describe the
scene shown, what is
the storyline?
B. Then, identify the
political message
intended by the
cartoonist.
‘Punch’ was
Britain’s main
political
magazine of
the period.
Why the candle
‘snuffer’? What
political
message does
it represent?
What does
the ‘Angel’
represent?
What does
the candle
represent?
What is the general political message of the cartoon?
7.
A. Describe the
condition of the room in
which this family is
living?
B. How is the child shown?
Why?
C. Look at the caption,
what is its political
message?
Vengeance! German Nation
Today in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles the disgraceful Treaty
is being signed. Do not forget it! The German people will with
unceasing labour press forward to reconquer the place among
nations to which it is entitled. Then will come the vengeance for
the shame of 1919.
From the ‘Deutsche Zeitung’ [‘The German Express’] newspaper.
Only fools, liars and criminals could hope for mercy from the
enemy. In these nights hatred grew in me, hatred for those
responsible for the dead.
By Adolf Hitler, who had served in the army and became a future leader of
Germany