• I can explain the major decisions made in the Versailles Treaty, including German reparations and the mandate system that replaced Ottoman control.

• I can analyze the destabilization of Europe in the collapse of the great empires.

Learning Targets

• Who started WWI?

• When did it start?

• Who were the central powers?

• Who were the allied powers?

• When did the US join the war?

• Who won the war?​

Review

• 1919 - Paris Peace Conference

  • United States, Britain, France, Italy

  • 5 treaties - one for each defeated nation

• Fourteen Points

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • "War to end all wars"

• European punishment vs American idealism

Peace Negotiations

• The League of Nations

• Creation of 9 countries (Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Austria, and Hungary)

• Mandate system - prepare for independence

  • Britain - Palestine - Balfour Declaration (promised to create a Jewish State)

The 14 Points

• Germany's treaty

• War-guilt clause

• 13% of land lost

• 100,000 troops only

• $32 billion in reparations to Britain, France, Belgium

Treaty of Versailles

• Germany humiliated

• USA Senate refused to ratify the Treaty

  • We did NOT join the League of Nations

• League of Nations - WEAK!

• Was WWI the war to end all wars?

Foreshadowing