Wilson's 14 pt. to Lost Generation

Wilson's 14 Points

Woodrow Wilson's plan for post-war peace: no secret treaties; freedom of the seas; removal of economic barriers; reduction of arms; adjust colonial claims

League of Nations

A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.

Wilson's 14 Points

Woodrow Wilson's plan for post-war peace: no secret treaties; freedom of the seas; removal of economic barriers; reduction of arms; adjust colonial claims

League of Nations

A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

Impacts of the Treaty of Versailles

It 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to repair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manufacture any weapons.

November 11, 1918

day that Germany signed Armistice ending WWI

1914-1918

World War I

Who signed the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany and the Allied Powers

Armenian Genocide

Assault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East.

Genocide

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Anatolia

The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor

Young Turks

Young and nationalist rebellious people in the Ottoman Empire who forced the Sultan to reform, installing constitution-

Concentration Camps

Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state

Death Marches

Forced marches under brutal conditions often to exhaust or march prisoners to their death

Forced Migration

Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.

dissillusionment

a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be

Lost Generation

Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe

Ernest Hemingway

Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms, won a Nobel Prize in 1954

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Gertrude Stein

American writer of experimental novels, poetry, essays, operas, and plays. In Paris during the 1920s she was a central member of a group of American expatriates, she coined the term Lost Generation

Surrealism

An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images

Dadaism

An artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct. They tried to show the purposelessness of life.

Salvador Dali

Spanish surrealist painter