World War I: Peace without Victory Victory without Peace

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World War I Peace without Victory? Victory
without Peace?

• History 106
• April 8, 2009

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Reminders

• Readings for this week.
• Bentley and Ziegler, chapter 34 four documents
  on the Middle East 1) Damascus Protocol, 1915
  2) Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916 3) Balfour
  Declaration, 1917 4) Feizal-Weizmann agreement,
  1919 NEW Brief introduction to
  these documents.
• There will be a brief quiz in your section on
  these documents on April 13 or 14.
• Keep reading Things Fall Apart. Your paper is due
  April 20 or 21 in your section. Instructions
  here.

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Some Websites of Interest

• A Multimedia History of World War I
• British National Archives site on the First World
  War
• PBS website on The Great War and the Shaping of
  the Twentieth Century
• Heritage of the Great War site
• Art of the First World War exhibit

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Technologies of Modern War Aerial Machine Gunning
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Technologies of Modern War Bombers
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Technologies of Modern War Submarine Warfare
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Technologies of Modern War Poison Gas Attack
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Technologies of Modern War Liquid Fire on the
Battlefield
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Ending the Stalemate 1917

• The U.S. enters the war, April 1917
• Czarist Russias collapse and the Russian
  Revolution
• Russia leaves the war, March, 1918

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America and the Great War

• Why We Fought
• Interests and Ideals
• Economic Entanglements
• German Submarine Warfare
• Wilsons Fourteen Points

May 1915 Lusitania sunk by German submarine
warfare, 114 Americans die.
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U.S. Propaganda Posters
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Paris crowds celebrate the Armistice, Nov. 11,
1918.
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British Poet Siegfried Sassoon on the Armistice

• Everyone Sang
• Everyone suddenly burst out singing
• And I was filled with such delight
• As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
• Winging wildly across the white
• Orchards and dark-green fields on - on - and out
  of sight.
• Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted
• And beauty came like the setting sun
• My heart was shaken with tears and horror
• Drifted away ... O, but Everyone
• Was a bird and the song was wordless the
  singing will never be done. --
• Animation of Sassoon reading Everyone Sang

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World War I Battle Deaths
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As Deadly as the Great War

• The influenza epidemic of 1918-19 killed more
  people around the world (probably 30 million)
  than the Great War had.

Emergency Hospital, Ft. Riley, Kansas, 1918
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"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20
yearsFerdinand Foch, French General

• Armistice Nov. 11, 1918
• Paris Peace ConferenceVersailles Treaty
• A punitive peace and secret treaties
• Picture shows Wilson in Paris (center in top hat)
  after signing Versailles Treaty, June 1919
• Wilsons dreams defeated
• U.S. Senate Rejects Versailles Treaty and League
  of Nations

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Europe 1919
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