Midterm Review Project: WWI

By: Kristen Ju, Suhavi Chhabra, Devneet Kainth and Pradhita Kolluru

War

Like the card game war•5 teams; 1 player from each team comes up and plays until same card is put down•WAR=question•whichever team gets the stuffed animal and answers the question first within 15 seconds wins

Who were these three people? Archduke Ferdinand Kaiser Wilhelm Woodrow Wilson

Archduke Ferdinand Heir of Austria-Hungary

Kaiser WilhelmLeader of Germany

Woodrow Wilson28th President of the United States

What did the Bolshevik Party fight

for/ believe in?

Bolshevik Party

○Socialism- factors of production

owned by community-yet

individuals still have some

freedoms.

○ “Land, Peace, and Bread”

What is the War Industries Board? What

was its purpose?

War Industries Board

Regulated what businesses could and could not make

o businesses supplied military o businesses were able to earn profit

Who are the Big Four? Where did they all

meet? What countries did they represent?

Paris Peace Conference

France: Prime Minister Georges ClemenceauGreat Britain: Prime Minister David Lloyd GeorgesItaly: Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele OrlandoUSA: President Woodrow Wilson

Name 1 thing each country wanted•France•Great Britain•Italy•USAfrom the Treaty of Versailles.

Treaty of Versailles

FrancePrime Minister Georges Clemenceau

Great BritainPrime Minister David Lloyd Georges

ItalyPrime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

USAPresident Woodrow Wilson

● Most angry ● Crush Germany● Charge Kaiser

for war crimes● Alsace-Lorraine● Supported

Poland

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● Not as angry● Decrease

German navy● Eliminate

German colonies

● Secretly trade with Germany

● Don’t want to be too harsh

● Unhappy with everything

● Big 3● promised land

● 14 points● ALL countries

reduce military● End secret

alliances● League of

Nations● Freedom of

seas

***Don’t sign treaty

Who represented Japan during the Paris Peace Conference?

Marquess Saionji Kinmochi•Originally part of Paris Peace Conference•Left conference because no one was listening to him

What does MAIN stand for?What were Wilson’s Fourteen

Points?How is MAIN related to President

Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

MAINM:Militarism A:Alliances I:Imperialism N:Nationalism

Wilson’s Fourteen Points were what President Woodrow Wilson demanded at

the Treaty of Versailles. The 14 Points are related to MAIN because each of the

points fit under one or more of the MAIN categories.

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism

Freedom to navigate the seas

No secret agreements or treaties

Impartial colonial decisions

Independent Poland

Reduction of arms No economic barriers

Self-determination for Austria Hungary

Independent Belgium

Isolate Russia League of Nations Change Italian borders

Liberated France and return Alsace-Lorraine

KSelf-determination for Balkan States

Independent Turkey

In the end...

Germany had to: reduce ____ and ____ pay $33 billion in . lose land for _______ and __________ take blame for .

Had __ weeks to consider and sign treaty

In the end...

Germany had to: reduce army and navy pay $33 billion in reparations

• Reparations: payments for damage during war lose land for Poland and Alsace-Lorraine take blame for war

Had 3 weeks to consider and sign treaty

What is the Zimmerman Note? Who sent it, who was it supposed to go to and who intercepted it?

Zimmerman Note

• German Secretary of Foreign Affairs sent a telegram to Mexico promising that if Mexico waged war with the United States, they would get New Mexico and other pieces of land that it wanted from America, once the war ended and Germany won (Germany wanted this because it, kept US from interfering with the war in Europe)

• British intercepted telegram and sent it to the Americans.

What was the Selective Service

Act?

The Selective Service Act said that men 18-30

have to register for draft (no women).

What was the Sedition Act?

The Sedition Act said that people could not speak out against the gov’t, flag, or military

What did the War Industries Board

effect?

Effects of War Industries Board

Food Administration

•Meatless Monday

•Wheatless Wednesdays

•Prohibition: no alcohol (18th Amendment)

•Told farmers what to grow (farmers make money)

Fuel Administration

•Daylight Savings

•Gasless Sunday

•Heatless Monday

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What was the Espionage Act?

The Espionage Act said that people

could not dodge draft or aid enemy.

Who was John J. Pershing? What group did he lead? What is the group’s purpose?

John J. Pershing

• Was a general officer in the United States Army who led

the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.

• The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) - U.S.

armed forces

What is Armistice day? When is Armistice day?

What did it signify?

Armistice Day is when Germany and Allies agreed to

ceasefire.When?: November 11, 1918

Significance?: Ended World War I

Who was the leader of the Bolshevik party?

Vladimir Lenin

How many revolutions did the Bolshevik’s lead in Russia before they

won?

Revolutions led by Bolsheviks

October (November) 1917- October

Revolution

■ Bolsheviks overthrew Duma

(provisional/temporary government)

November 7, 1917- Second Revolution

■ Bolsheviks win and Russia becomes the

Soviet Union