Bellringer1. Which 3 countries lost territory after WW1?

2. Identify four new countries that were created.

What happened after WW1?

Impact of US troops

US troops had not been

fighting for years like the

Germans, French and

British

These fresh troops and

their military equipment

helped the Allies to

finally beat the Germans

1918 US Recruitment poster

End of the War

US, British and French troops finally break through the German trenches

“Hundred Days Offensive”

Over half a million men died during this attack but the Allies won and the Germans were forced to make peace with the Allies

WW1 cemetery in France

Armistice Day

November 11, 1918 Both sides agreed to stop fighting

Everyone was happy, Americans, Germans, French and other Europeans

Today you know this holiday as “Veterans Day” and we have a day off from school!

Armistice Day parade 1937

Additional information at http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/index.htm

Two kids fight• Options for the school:

• Do nothing

• Suspensions

• Mediation

• Something else

Best option?

Worst option?

In your groups of 3

• Each of you are 1 specific person

• Read your role, take notes about what is important to this leader

• Work with your team members to create a peace plan with the Central Powers

• For example: 2 kids get in a fight– Principal 1: peer mediation for both kids to

prevent future fights

– Principal 2: suspends the kid who started it 10 days, 5 days to the other kid.

Treaty of ?????

1919

Woodrow Wilson (US),

Georges Clemenceau

(France), David Lloyd

George (Great Britain),

Vittorio Orlando of Italy

meet in secret

Location?

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Woodrow Wilson (US),

Georges Clemenceau

(France), David Lloyd

George (Great Britain),

Vittorio Orlando of Italy

meet in secret

Location?

• Palace of Versailles - France

Sorry GuysNot Invited

- Russia (Revolution)

- Germany (because

they “started it”)

- Austrian-Hungarian

Empire (because no

longer exist)

- Ottoman Empire

(because they lost and

no longer exist)

Africa?

Treaty of Versailles

• Part 1: International Peace

• Creation of League of

Nations– Germany & Russian can’t join

• “Can’t we all just get

along?”

• Place for countries to work

out problems

Treaty of Versailles

• Part 2: Blame Germany

• Germany loses all territory in Africa & Asia

• Germany must pay Allies $33 billion!

• Germany can not have large military

• Germany can not build tanks, planes, U-boats

GERMANY

Treaty of VersaillesPart 3: New Countries

• New countries made

from Austria

(Nationalism) (Poland,

Yugoslavia, Romania,

etc

• Ottoman Territory rich

in oil given to GB &

France (Syria, Iraq,

Saudi Arabia,

Palestine)

Treaty of Versailles

How was The Treaty of Versailles different

or similar to your treaty? Explain your

answer

Treaty of Versailles (pg. 742)1. What do you think German

veterans thought of the

Treaty? Why?

2. What do you think the

Africans, Asians & Arabs

thought of the Treaty?

Why?

3. What do you think

peaceful Americans

thought of the Treaty?

Why?

4. How would you change

the treaty to prevent a

future war?