7.5 continued
Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 5- WWI: Military and Diplomacy (continued)
Student learning objective- Explain the consequences of US involvement in WWI.
“Who has registered the knowledge or approval of the American people of the course this Congress is called upon in declaring war upon Germany? Submit the question to the people, you who support it. You who support it dare not do it, for you know that by a vote of more than ten to one the American people as a body would register their declaration against it.
“I venture to say that the response which the German people have made to the demands of this war shows that it has a degree of popular support which the war upon which we are entering has not and never will have among our people. The espionage bills, the conscription bills, and other forcible military measures . . . [are] proof that those responsible for this war fear that it has no popular support. . . .
“It was our absolute right as a neutral [power] to ship food to the people of Germany. That is a position that we have fought for through all of our history. . . .
“The only reason why we have not suffered the sacrifice of just as many ships and just as many lives from the violation of our rights by the war zone and the submarine mines of Great Britain as we have through the unlawful acts of Germany in making her war zone in violation of our neutral rights is simply because we have submitted to Great Britain’s dictation. . . . We have not only a legal but a moral responsibility for the position in which Germany has been placed . . . . By suspending the rule [of law] with respect to neutral rights in Great Britain’s case, we have been actively aiding her in starving the civil population of Germany. We have helped to drive Germany into a corner, her back to the wall, to fight with what weapons she can lay her hands on to prevent the starving of her women and children, her old men and babes.”
Discussion Question #1- Who has the power to declare war in the US?
Discussion Question #2- What is Fighting Bob La Follette's point of view in the excerpt?
Discussion Question #3- Regarding the war, what is compatible with American policy at the time? Explain.
Discussion Question #4- According to the excerpt, what sabotaged American policy?
US turns the tide of the war
New hazards
American body count
Segregation
Women in the war
Treaty of Versailles
"Big 4"
War Guilt clause
$38,000,000,000 reparations
Radicalism caused by the Treaty of Versailles
-Germany
-USSR
-Italy
League of Nations
Discussion Question- Was Woodrow Wilson an idealist or realist?
November 11, 1918- WWI end
Revisit in discussion- Student learning objective- Explain the consequences of US involvement in WWI.
Discuss- Student Learning Objective #2- Students will be able to explain why the US celebrates Veterans' Day (Memorial Day and Labor Day also).
Veterans Day- November 11 every year-
Memorial Day- Last Monday in May every year-
Labor Day- First Monday in September every year-
Last but not least- Students take the American Pageant Chapter 30 Quiz 11/9
HW- American Pageant Chapter 31 Quiz is Wednesday, November 15
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