The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles

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The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of
Versailles
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Mar 18/19 Please do not talk at this time
WWI After the War to End All Wars Key words
Notes Vocab Definitions Green Questions
Answers Summary
Homework Handout on Consequences of WWI due
Monday Test Tuesday! Library Day Friday!
Please set up page 70A in your notebook in
Cornell Note Form.
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1918 Flu Pandemic Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 100,000,000 died
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11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Great War is Over...
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But the problems are just beginning... 9,000,000
Dead
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The Somme American Cemetery, France
116,516 Americans Died
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World War I Casualties
Even those men who lived were horribly scarred,
crippled or emotionally destroyed.
Name 6 problems a country that loses 9 million
people in 3 years will face?
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Serious Economic Problems

• Battles ruined crop land. Poisons left soil
  unfit to farm.
• Civilians died from starvation and disease
• Food Prices soared.
• Other Costs of the war reached 338 billion.

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Percentage () increase in the cost of food from
1914 - 1919
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Fight Club

• Imagine a fight between your group of friends and
  a group of your enemies. It gets totally out of
  hand. People die on both sides. Your best
  friend is killed in front of you. Your side
  wins, but it could have easily gone the other
  way.
• The enemy, including the guy who killed your
  friend, is completely in your power. You can do
  anything to them and the police are staying out
  of it as long as no one else dies or is
  physically injured.
• Your enemies are not rich, but they have some
  money and things like good cars and jewelry, bank
  accounts and vacation homes, etc.
• What do you do?

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Key Vocabulary Still on Pg. 70A

• A Treaty is a written agreement between countries
  in which they agree to do or not do particular
  things
• A League is a group of countries that have joined
  together for a particular purpose.
• Reparations are amounts of money paid by one
  country to another for damages caused during the
  war.
• Vengeance is harming a person or country because
  they have harmed you.
• Collective Security means that an attack on one
  country would be considered an attack on all
  countries. Therefore, an attacking country would
  be opposed by Every Other County, making attack
  too dangerous an option to consider.
• Disarmament is reducing the number of weapons and
  soldiers that a country has.

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Make Peace!

• In your group- Consider your country. You need
  to make the best possible deal for your country
  at these negotiations.
• Now discuss the Peace Treaty Handout and fill it
  out as you think is best for your country and the
  world.

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Who Really Wrote the Peace?
President Georges Clemenceau of France
Prime Minister Lloyd George of England
The Big Four
President Woodrow Wilson of the USA
Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy
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What Kind of a Peace Was It?

• A Peace of Justice
• Leaders of the Allies and the Central Powers met
  together at the Palace of Versailles
• President Wilsons 14 Points supported self
  determination and called for a Peace Without
  Victory.
• Peace of Vengeance
• Italy and Britain wanted more territory
• France wanted to punish Germany.

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In the End
Germany

• loses all her colonies.
• loses the Saar Valley where all her best mines
  are for 15 years.
• loses the Alsace and Lorraine regions to France.
• citizens lose their property abroad.
• must disband all its armed forces. No army, navy
  or air force and no merchant marine.
• is charged 32 billion in war reparations which
  they must pay to the Allies.
• is blamed for the WHOLE war. They sign a Guilt
  Clause that claims they were responsible for all
  the deaths and losses and pain and suffering of
  the war.

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Other WWI Treaties
Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - (March 3, 1918)
Conditions of an Armistice with Germany
(signed November 11, 1918) The Peace Treaty of
Versailles- The Allies (except the US) and
Germany (signed June 28, 1919) Treaty of
Neuilly- The Allies and Bulgaria (November 27,
1919) Treaty of Trianon- The Allies and
Hungary (signed June 4, 1920) US Peace Treaties
with Austria, Hungary and Germany (August,
1921) Treaty of Lausanne- The Allies (except the
US) and Turkey (July 24, 1923)
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And more Treaties
Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous
Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
(June 17, 1925) Treaty Providing for the
Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National
Policy - Signed by nearly every country in the
war. (Kellogg-Briand Pact) (August 27, 1928)

• League of Nations Protocol- Established the
  League of Nations
• (1920)
• Washington Conference
• Establishing a Commission of Jurists to Consider
  Laws of War
• (February 4, 1922)
• Washington Treaty in Relation to the Use of
  Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare
• (February 6, 1922)
• San Remo Convention- Gives control of Palestine
  to Britain
• (24 July, 1922)

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Back on pg. 70Have you ever been blamed for
something you didnt do? What happened? How did
you feel?
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Please do not talk at this time March 23

• Dates to Note
• Test on WWI and the Treaty of Versailles Tues.
• In Text Citation Lesson Wed/Thursday (bring
  research logs and rough drafts to use in class)
• Rough draft with in text citations due Friday
• Notebooks due after Armenian Genocide and Russian
  Revolution lessons.

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Review Notebook Pages to be collected

• These can be found on the web page in a document
  called Notebook Guide WS

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Test review Bingo!

• Sign your own name on the middle square.
• Find someone who can answer one of the questions
  on your paper and get them to sign their name on
  that square.
• Try to get 5 in a row! Or a Postage Stamp
  (inside squares) or a Picture Frame (outside
  Squares)
• Bring me your card when you have 5 in a row!

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Please do not talk at this time March 23

• Please take a moment to review for your test.
• When you are finished with your test, please take
  a reading on the Armenian Genocide.