Global Peacemaker

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Global Peacemaker

• Chapter 10
• Section 5

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Wilsons Vision for Peace

• Woodward Wilsons 14 points
• 1 End secrete alliances
• 2-5 Freedom of the seas, trade, limits on
  armaments, peaceful adjustment to colonial tax
• 6-13 Territorial settlements in Europe
• 14 League of Nations
• At first the Allies supported, but then the
  points started to unravel

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Paris Peace Conference

• January 1919
• Wilson did not want spoils of war, only wanted
  stability
• Other Allies WANTED spoils
• Divide Germanys colonies
• France wanted total destruction
• Wilson forced to compromise on his 14 Points

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League of Nations

• Ensure security and peace for all members
• Moral onlyNo military power
• Article 10
• Attack on one, attack on all
• Advocate for international stability and security
• Rejected by Congress
• Did not want to be pulled into a global war again

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Peace Treaty

• Versailles, France (east of Paris)
• Attended and dominated by the BIG FOUR
• Britain, France, Italy, and the US
• Outcome
• German responsibility for war
• Created new European boundaries
• see map on page 329
• German reparations to the Allies33 billion
• Humiliated Germanylater the terms of the
  Versailles Treaty is one of the main causes of
  WWII
• Signed June 28, 1919

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US Approval

• Many did not support Treaty due to US involvement
  in the League of Nations
• Irreconcilables or reservationists
• Joining would weaken US independence
• Wilson traveled to win support suffered a
  stroke
• Congress did not ratify the VersaillesTreaty
  several times
• Eventually the US ratified separate peace
  treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary in
  October 1921

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Postwar Adjustments

• April 1919 Americans sent home
• No plan to re-emerge back into society
• No jobs, hard time adjusting to civilian life
• Women lost their jobs due to returning soldiers
• End of optimism?
• Death and destruction of war was real.
  Disillusioned.
• What has war accomplished for Americans?
• African American continued to experience
  discrimination

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Michigan Department of EducationHigh School
Content ExpectationsU.S. History and Geography

• 6.2.4