InNo+RyanC2013+11.30.2010

=Awesome (Digital Craft)=



This is a bar graph I made to represent the amount lives lost during the war from each country. Germany and Russia sacrificed the most lives, the main reason for Russia's lose was her lack of equipment and trained soldiers.

= Awesomeness (Found) =

This political cartoon represents how it was irresponsible for USA to create the League of Nations and not join it.

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=Great Suffering=

**France**
 * France came victim to the worst fighting in the war.
 * Farms and land were destroyed, and millions of soldiers were killed or wounded.

Belgium

 * Most of Belgium was occupied by Germany for four years, in which Germany took all heir resources, and destroyed cities.

Britain

 * Britain was never occupied by the enemy, however 75,000 British troops died and the government was in war debt.

Italy

 * The Italians had been left with 600,000 soldiers dead after three years of fighting.

Russia

 * Russia was the only country to surrender, after the mass hunger and deaths of 1,700,000 soldiers.
 * The treaty of Brest-Litvosk gave Germany a third of Russia’s land.

**The United States** >
 * The United States lost 116,000 men to the war, a smaller amount compared to the other allies.

Germany

 * Germany did not have any fighting on her land, however she did lose nearly two million soldiers to the war.
 * Revolution broke out in Germany and the British had blockaded seaports to prevent Germany from starting another war.

The Suffering of War

 * Other countries also had large death tolls, and Spanish Influenza was not helping.
 * The leaders of the world were determined to prevent another war like this, by singing peace treaties with other countries.

=Great Expectations=

The Paris Peace Conference

 * The largest peace conference in the world was held in Paris in 1919.
 * David Lloyd prime minister of Britain, Clemenceau prime minister of France, and Woodrow Wilson president of the United States, quickly took control of the talks.
 * Clemenceau wanted Germany to pay and to become so weak that they couldn’t attack France again.
 * Woodrow Wilson wanted open agreements, reduced armed forces, unity of nationality, and an organization to ensure peace called the League of Nations. He also agreed a little with Clemenceau.
 * David Lloyd George saw that treating the Germans harshly would cause resentment and hatred.
 * Britain was pushing for him to be tough on Germany.
 * He thought that making a fair lasting peace was closely linked to taking revenge on Germany.

Making Peace

 * Woodrow Wilson was the only one that had detailed ideas for making peace, he quickly got his way.
 * A league of nations was created, and people of the same nationality were returned to their own country.
 * The Peace conference became a free-for-all in which countries tried to get as much as possible from the defeated lands.
 * The countries that weren’t allowed to take part were Germany, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey, or Communist Russia.

Germany Re-Made The Treaty of Versialles

 * In 28 June 1919, the politicians left Paris to Versaille.
 * In the royal palace they signed the Treaty of Versialles that dealt with Germany.
 * It was a 200 page long and contained more than 400 separate sections.
 * 1) A League of Nations was created along with the Covenant of the League of Nations, which were its goals.
 * 2) Germany had to give land to neighboring countries.
 * 3) German overseas colonies were given to the League of Nations.
 * 4) German land taken from Russia were given back or turned into new nations.
 * 5) German armed forces were reduced to the bare minimum.
 * 6) Western Part of Germany became a DMZ.
 * 7) Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria.
 * 8) Germany had to accept the war guilt clause.
 * 9) Germany had to pay reparations for being guilty for starting the war.
 * The Germans went up in an uproar upon hearing the terms of the treaty.
 * The government resigned and the fleet sunk their boats.
 * The Germans had to no choice but to sign, in order to avoid an invasion.

= Europe Reshaped =


 * The other defeated nations also were given treaties by the Paris Peace Conference.

Austria-Hungary

 * Two treaties at Saint Germain and Trianon turned Austria and Hungary into two separate and independent nations.
 * They also had to pay reparations, reduce their army, and give away land.
 * Serbia was turned into Yugoslavia.

Bulgaria

 * The treaty of Neuilly made Bulgaria also give away land to its neighboring countries.

Russia

 * The Paris Peace Conference didn’t give back all of the land that the Germans took away from Russia in the treaty of Brest-Litvosk.
 * Some were made into independent states.

Poland

 * The Polish gained their independence by taking land from Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.
 * The land gave her access to the Baltic Sea.

Turkish Empire

 * The Treaty of Sevres was very harsh, as it took away nearly all of its land in Europe, and put the Turkish Straits under the League of Nations.
 * Armies of Britain, France, Italy, and Greece were to occupy the remains of Turkey.

= The League of Nations =

Organization of the League of Nations

 * The Covenant of the League of Nations:
 * Members of the League would talk rather than go to war. These talks took place in the League’s Assembly in Geneva, which was a “world parliament".
 * If war broke out then all the members would go to the victim nations help. This was known as collective security.
 * The Council League would arrange help.
 * Much of the work of the Leagues was done by the commissions.
 * The Disarmament Commission tried to reduce army size.
 * The Mandates Commission watched German and Turkish colonies, which were temporarily ruled by Britain and France.
 * The League also tried to make the world better.
 * Health Organization – improved world’s health.
 * International Labour Organization – improved the conditions in which people worked.
 * Permanent Court of Justice - tried legal disputed between countries.
 * Organizers who handled paperwork, communications, and publicity was called the Secretariat.

Problems for the League
 * The League of Nations was actually weak from the start.
 * USA wouldn’t join, who weren’t interested in being involved with foreign affairs.
 * Communist Russia and Germany were not allowed to join.
 * League of Nations didn’t have an army.
 * Despite these conditions they were still able to do a lot of useful work in the 1920s.

**Summary** = = The Great War caused all the countries, who participated in it, to suffer great loses. Not only did the Great War kill millions of lives, but the it also destroyed defeated nations. Countries that were defeated were forced to sign unfair treaties that took apart their nation. A League of Nations was built to ensure that the world would be at peace, and a Great War would not break out again.

=Question﻿=

1. How were did the treaties affect the attitude of other countries?

2. Were the treaties actually effective?

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