President Wilson's 14 point plan

           Woodrow Wilson was the President of United States during WWI and he made proposals hoping to accomplish just and lasting peace.  The proposals were known as the Fourteen Points.  One point was to have reduced national armies and navies.  This doesn't exist in today's world there is not a limit to any countries army or navy.  The only thing that happens is other countries start to get alarmed if there is any more than usual military action, but there is not technical limit.  The second point I chose is the points about territorial changes and new nations.  Even today after war or battles, land is usually the thing that is negotiated and settled.  Countries are still seperating and creating new nations.  For example, Sudan has recently seperated and South Sudan has been created.   Thirdly, Freedom of seas and also free trade, these ideas are still apart of today's life.  Countries can claim seas in their own territory but that's it and also i'm almost positive no one can limit trade except maybe to smaller third world countries with little power.  Fourth and final a "general association of nations" that would be able to represent all countries and nations so that conflicts could be negotiated peacefully.  Pertaining to all world conflicts, such as WWI.  The league of nations was created because of this point but it wasn't lasting or just in any way, the bigger countries had to much decision and power.  But we now have the United Nations which is not at all like the systems the League of Nations used, it is in place to try and keep peace which is overall what Wilson wanted to accomplish with it.

Political Cartoon from WWI

This cartoon is of Uncle Sam saying "I WANT YOU" because during WWI armies were so desperate for men to serve for them.  It uses exaggeration to an extent with Uncle Sam hypothetically pointing his finger individually at every able man.  But in a way it's not exaggerated because the drafts picked up all able men and if you didnt want to then you were forced to.  This comic is a known cartoon, even today we can still identify it because it was such a regularly used poster especially during times  of war.

Women in America during the War.

                                                                                                                During the war, All able men in the United States were sent to war leaving no one to keep up production for supplies and goods.  So the government used it's only option for help, women.  Women took over the workplace in factories, offices, shops, ran hospitals, paved streets, plowed fields. Women were working hard at home to supply the men with munitions and war weapons and also helped keep up the production of food and clothing for the soldiers.   After the war, women mostly had givin up the jobs they had gained from the men being in the war, so that the men could have their jobs back.  But now it dawned on Americans that women could do what men do just as good or better.                                                       

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide took place 1890-1915 in Turkey.  It was the massacre and mass deportation of two million Armenians from Turkey.
The Ottoman Empire ruled over the ancient armenian's homeland in the 1800's and by the end of the 1800's educated armenians were asking for a political reform of the Armenian Empire. The Armenian's wanted a constitution, the right to vote, and an end to discrimation again armenian's because they were christians.  Sultan Abdul Hamid was the ruler, and he responded to this plee for chage by persucation of the armenian's and massacres.  100,000 Armenian's were killed between 1894 and 1896 alone.  But the Sultan was over thrown and young turks took over in 1908, proposing a constitutional government.  On the contrary, in 1913 three young turks by the names of Mehmed Talaat, Ismail Enver and Ahmed Djemal.  They had ideas of one religion and one language and also expansion at the expense of the Armenians who were massacred again in 1909.  In 1914, Armenians in the army had their weapons confiscated and they were put into slave labor battalions building roads or were used as human pack animals.  Orders by the Three young leaders were sent out to exterminate Armenians and town by town person by person Armenians were taken by their homes and shops to be shot or hung.  There were death marches, the young women were taken to live a life in servitude, sexual abuse, mercissly beaten.  In the death marches, 75% of the armenians died and those who didnt were drowned, or taken to a cliff, or burned alive.  When other countries became aware of this mass killing they became involved and in August of 1920 the Treaty of Sevres was signed by the Allied Powers, the Republic of Armenia, and the new moderate leaders of Turkey. The treaty recognized an independent Armenian state in an area comprising much of the former historic homeland.



http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/armenian_genocide.htm