1-28, Versailles, President Wilson, League of Nations

Versailles, President Wilson, League of Nations

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Open Ended

Bell Work Question- Explain what you remember about President Wilson's role in the peace process when ending WW1 from yesterday's lesson

Multiple Choice

Wilson's "14 Points" were designed to provide a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I. How was his points received by British and French leaders?

• Both European leaders supported Wilson's

  platform without any reservations.

• Both leaders rejected Wilson's platform, believing that it would give the United States

  an unfair advantage in world affairs.

• Both European leaders were more interested in

  punishing the Germans through reparations and loss of territory than in preventing another world war.

Multiple Choice

Which issue created the MOST conflict between the United States, Great Britain, and France in the years following World War I?

• America seized French and British colonial

  holdings in Central and South America.

• France, Great Britain, and other Allied nations were unable to repay the United States for almost $7 billion worth of war-time loans.

• France, Great Britain, and other Allied nations

  enacted trade barriers and tariffs against

  American goods.

• The United States put pressure on Great Britain and France to demobilize and reduce their military strength or face economic sanctions.

Multiple Choice

Which is the BEST description of America's response when Germany was unable to make reparations payments to France and Great Britain, those nations were unable to make their loan payments to the United States?

• When Germany defaulted on reparations,

  American investors offered loans to Germany to meet its obligations; which sent Germany into further economic instability.

• The United States agreed to cancel the war

  debts of Great Britain and France, but still

  insisted on repayment from Germany.

• The United States enacted trade barriers against all

  European nations in 1920.

Open Ended

What do you think this cartoon is suggesting?

Multiple Choice

Which of these BEST explains why the United States did NOT join the League of Nations?

• None of America's close allies in World War I,

  such as France, Russia, or Great Britain, joined

  the league.

• Americans supported joining the League of Nations because is was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson, but the organization itself never officially formed.

• After World War I many Americans were wary

  of becoming too entangled in European

  affairs and favored a more "isolationist"

  approach.