Chapter 6-3

Tuesday 3 November
1 Do two Current Events, and discuss
2 Return Work
3 Video
4 Homework Time

Chapter 6-3
A Bloody Conflict

Characterize the nature of battle in WWI
1 Trench Warfare
2 No man’s land
3 technology
4 Poison gas
5 horrific results
6 Tank
7 Planes
8 Horrific Results

How did the convoy system help protect US Shipping?

How did the Russian Revolution change the nature of war?
9 Czar Nicholas II
10 Bolsheviks
11 Vladmir Lenin
12 Treaty of Brest – Litovsk
13 Chateau – Thierry

US get involved
14 Argonne forest.

Explain Pres. Wilson’s vision of Postwar peace, summarized in his 14 points. Why was the vision not shared by the allies and the US Congress? What Political mistakes did he make that cost him support for his peace plan? Would you have handled this differently and How? It is often said that Wilson won the war but then “Lost the Peace.” Explain that statement. Many countries turned to the Treaty of Versailles forcing the Central Powers to Sign. What was the Treaty of Versailles, and how did it come to change the course of History.

15 Big 4
16 14 points (first 5, next 8, 14th)
17 League of Nations
18 Treaty of Versailles
19 Reparations
20 Broken Empires
21 The irreconcilables
22 Wilson angers senators (why – not in book. I’ll explain).
23 Stroke and collapse