WWI+Morality+Team

=World War I Morality Team= Elenore, Abbie, Taylor, Zoe

Taylor
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Document 7:Germany is a soldier with long stiff legs flexing forward and backward keeping at the same strict pace. Germany has a long pointy gun with four people on it, an old man, young woman, young girl and a little boy. All of them are dead showing that with Germany in power they will control all and in the end it will hurt our nation. Document 4: German solders go into a house and kill the man wife and children for no apparent reason. They then set fire to the house. The Germans have no reason to be so horrible but insist on being terrible people in the heart. (my other two had nothing to do with morality) 3 facts about Germany being bad moraly -- ·  1915 – Germany has secret attacks in Submarines – kills innocent neutral Americans ·  Germany sinks //Lusitania// May 1915 ·  Wilson agrees with Britain’s ways and has no trust in Germany

Abbie (yay morality)

NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATION “…neutral in fact as well as in name…impartial in thought as well as in action.” • Wilson and Americans generally sympathized with Alliestied to British • British prevented trade for America with Central Powers • Loans for Allies • British and German violated international laws British: “a gang of thieves” Germans: “a gang of murderers. On the whole, we prefer the thieves, but only as the lesser of two evils.” • Wilson scared to have conflict with Britaingave up many neutral rights • Submarine warfare Germany couldn’t injury or kill an American on an Ally ship Americans injured/killed Hate for Germans Sussex Pledge: not sink merchant ships without warning if Britain adhered to international law Forced into war • Preparedness: military buildup for war • Self-determination: right of a nation to choose allies and their own government without any spheres of influence • Germany proposing Mexico as ally, therefore Mexico would regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona

CAUSE OF WAR: MORALITY • Germany’s submarine warfarekilled and injured Americans and many citizens from Ally countries Document 18: Allied and Neutral Ships Lost During World War 1 5,515 allied and neutral ships in total from 1914-1918 Only on the sea: what about on land? Only ships: what about LIVES? • Germans: “gang of murderers” • Germany’s atrocities Attack unexpectedly Attack normal citizens as well as military Teachers, priests, ministers, regular citizens Hangings, shootings, drunkenness Economic crisiscut off transportation and communication, robbery All of this happening in Ally countries Not right to stand back and witness these things go on Germany’s announced that they are foes with Americathis is what will happen to the AMERICAN people if America does not engage in warfare • “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” Nations need to decide in a more rational way than war how to make peace People aren’t meant to be killed in warnot what they’re raised to do How does a victory in war make up for all that these nations have lost in war? • “Babes on Bayonets” Babes: Germans will kill anyone and everyone Germans brutal and savage