WESTERN CIVILIZATION history qustion
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effects_of_wwi.pptxThe Effects of the Great War
US History
Labor Issues
Shortage of the Workforce:
Men were fighting at war
Women took jobs held by men
150,000 Mexicans entered the US
African-American moving North for job opportunities
War Industries Board
What Was It?
A Board that encouraged companies to use mass production techniques to increase efficiency
Eliminate wastes by standardizing products
What Did It Do?
Set Production Quotas
Allocated Raw Materials
How Did It Help?
Production increased 20%
Wages became higher especially for blue collar workers
The Great Migration
The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities between 1915 and 1930
They were moving North to escape discrimination and to find better job opportunities
Racial Tensions
Military Service Restricted = SUPPORT ONLY!
WHY SUPPORT IF YOU ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST??
American Attitudes
STAY OUT!!
Political and Religious
Personal:1/3 immigrants had family back home!
Wilson’s 1912 Campaign:
“He Kept Us Out of War”
Food Administration
Set up by Wilson and Hoover
MEATLESS
WHEATLESS
SWEETLESS
PORKLESS
Liberty Bonds
Increased Taxes
Financed the War
Patriotic Organizations
Growing Gardens
Recycling Campaigns
Organizers
Workers
Nurses
Silencing the Opposition
Traitors
Espionage and Sedition Acts
1st Amendment Rights
Schenck vs. The United States
END of WWI
Armistice
November 11, 1918:
The “eleventh day of the eleventh hour of the eleventh month”
Fourteen Points:
Whose Plan?
Points 1—5:
Points 6-14:
Picture: President Wilson addressing Congress with his plan of Fourteen Points
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Armistice
Palace of Versailles
Met Here in in order to form peace treaty
The Big Four
David Lloyd George
George Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
Vittorio Orlando
Picture: Palace of Versailles with the gods painted on the ceiling
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Fourteen Points
Points 1-5:
Freedom of the Seas, No secret treaties between nations, and self determination (can determine your own form of government)
Points 6-14:
Dealt with the specific areas in Europe, such as returning land to certain countries and restoring borders
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles
Germany’s colonies and the ottoman empire were divided among the allies
New countries: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland
Armistice
Treaty of Versailles:
Germany forced to disarm and admit guilt
Germany forces to pay war reparations
League of Nations was created
Article 231
ARTICLE 231
WHY WAS IT SO IMPORTANT?
IT WAS A PART OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES AND LISTED SPECIFIC WAR REPARATIONS:
FOR EXAMPLE: WHO PAYS WHO BACK?
WHEN DO YOU PAY THEM BACK?
HOW MUCH DO YOU OWE THEM?
Wilson’s United States Tour!
Purpose: to persuade the people to encourage our joining to the League of Nations…
BUT SENATE DIDN’T WANT TO JOIN!
WILSON SUFFERED A
STROKE AND WAS
BEDRIDDON THE
REMAINDER OF HIS
PRESIDENCY!
Compare to Obama’s travel to persuade people to join in on his “job plan” he wants Congress to pass
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Direct Causes
DIRECT CAUSES
1. IMPERIALISM
2. NATIONALISM
3. MILITARISM
4. ALLIANCES
5. ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND
6. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY OFFICIALLY DECLARING WAR!
Direct Effects
DIRECT EFFECTS
1. MAP OF EUROPE RE-DRAWN
2. LEAGUE OF NATIONS FORMED
3. ECONOMY OF US BOOMING
4. WIDESPREAD DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN EUROPE
5. BREAK UP OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE AND GERMAN EMPIRE
Costs of War
COSTS OF WAR
PHYSICAL AILMENTS
TRENCH FOOT
TRENCH MOUTH
DISEASES
PSHYCHOLOGICAL AILMENTS
SHELL SHOCK OR PTSD
THE FLU
1 QUARTER OF THE NATION SUFFERED; CORPSES LAY EVERYWHERE! DOCTORS DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS; DOCTORS SUGGESTED CLEANLINESS AND QUARANTINE
500,000 AMERICANS SUFFERED—SPREAD BY SOLDIERS
Trench Foot
Rats in their millions infested trenches. There were two main types, the brown and the black rat. Both were despised but the brown rat was especially feared. Gorging themselves on human remains (grotesquely disfiguring them by eating their eyes and liver) they could grow to the size of a cat. Men, exasperated and afraid of these rats (which would even scamper across their faces in the dark), would attempt to rid the trenches of them by various methods: gunfire, with the bayonet, and even by clubbing them to death. It was futile however: a single rat couple could produce up to 900 offspring in a year, spreading infection and contaminating food.
COSTS OF WAR
22 MILLION DEAD
20 MILLION WOUNDED
10 MILLION DISPLACED
338 BILLION DOLLARS SPENT
