Quick DBQ Fact Review Stuff

I’m v sorry this is so late, 5th period kids will probably find this more helpful

for all you last minute reviewers, here ya go.

LAST MINUTE/QUICK DBQ REVIEW SHEET

Paris Peace Conference 1919 in (shocker) Paris:

• Big 4:
• Italy:
• main guy: Vittorio Orlando
• wanted money and land
• England:
• main guy: David Lloyd George (guy with 3 first names)
• wanted to punish Germany
• France:
• main guy: George Clemenceau (the walrus who was actually the tiger)
• wanted to punish Germany
• US:
• main guy: Woodrow Wilson (hopefully y’all got this one)
• wanted to “heal wounds” and restore peace
• Potential Outside Info?!?!?!
• War Guilt Clause passed two things
• FORMALLY placed blame on Germany (this embarrassed the German people and this embarrassment+resentment will be manipulated by Hitler in later years)
• charged Germany with cost of the war 33 billion!!!!!!!!!!!
• this was not Wilson’s favorite thing, but he agreed to it in order to get his League of Nations
• Other general info things
• German Punishment
• military limited to 100k men
• 13% of territory lost
• $reparations$
• Occupation of Rhineland
• American Politics
• Wilson refused to compromise with reservationists like Henry Cabot Lodge resulted in his the refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
• Treaty of Versailles
• only had 4 of Wilsons 14 original points
• Some rad other stuff
• Espionage Act 1917 +Sedition Act of 1918
• enacted to keep Americans united in war effort
• Eugene V Debs arrested and convicted under violation of Sedition Act
• approx 1900 prosecuted, mostly anti-war socialists
• He hinted WEB Dubois might be on the DBQ so
• first black to get a PhD from Harvard
• demanded equal rights for blacks
• opposed by Booker T Washington
• former slave who was an accommodationist  
• PROGRESSIVE TRAITS
• anti concentration of power
• social cohesion
• social organizations
• assumptions
• optimistic outlook
• order+stability
• role of government=BIG
• initiatives: people can put own laws on ballot
• referendum: state govt passed a law so the people can overturn what was passed, if they didn’t like it
• direct primary: attempt of people to have say in nomination 17th Amendment!!!!!!
• senators elected by people of states
• 18th Amendment: prohibition
• 16th amendment: income tax