Wilson's 14 Points

II. Free navigation of all seas.

• I don't believe that this completely exists in today's world because in many places in the world such as Somalia boats are attacked and robbed and there are taxes to ship goods from country to country.

  

III. An end to all economic barriers between countries.

• I don't believe this exists either because countries fight about resources and prices all the time, an example of this would be gas prices rising and falling due to problems in the countries it is bought from.

IV.Countries to reduce weapon numbers.

• This does not exist today because many countries have large amounts of weapons and basically it's an arms race to see who can get the most powerful one. An example would be atomic and nuclear weapons.

XIV. A League of Nations should be set up to guarantee the political and territorial
       independence of all states.

• This does still exist today in the form of the United Nations, where leaders of countries meet up and discuss politics and territorial issues from time to time. They also exist to try and keep the peace between countries, though it isn't seeming to be working too much lately.

World War 1 Propaganda

• The cartoonist I believe is trying to say that because this is a total war, that not only men are needed now. Women and children are too, because during the war, women began taking over the men's jobs who were off fighting. The children part I believe is included because also during this time, there was rationing, which meant everyone had to sacrifice material things such as clothing and also food.
• It exaggerates this by showing a picture of a woman wearing American colored clothes shown by the red and white strips plus the blue and the stars, sleeping while the war's going on. 
• My opinion of this comment is that it's ironic because it shows a woman sleeping though during this war, women were very much active working in factories, offices, hospitals, shops and fields.

Women during the War

World War I was a total war. This meant that countries devoted all their resources to the war effort, and that the entire force of government was dedicated to winning the war. Due to the war being a total war, all citizens were called upon to help out with the war effort, including women. This gave women the chance to help out the government as they never had before. They were offered new job opportunities such as working in munition factories, offices, and shops. Women replaced men in building things like tanks and plowing fields, paving streets, and running hospitals. Despite these new jobs, they also helped to keep troops supplied with food, clothing, and weapons. These women had their lives effected in that even though they left the work force after the war ended, many people's views of them had changed and they began to see just how capable of doing things women really were.

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide took place when two million Armenians were deported by force and massacred, thus being removed from their historic homeland by the Turks, in Turkey. In just eight years, 1915-1923, nearly 1.5 million Armenians were lost, during and after World War I. This was known as the first genocide of the 20th century.

• What happened?
• A movement called the Young Turk movement emerged in reaction to the absolutist rule of Sultan Abdul-Hamid. The movement was formed by young military officers who were disturbed by the decline of the Ottoman power and blamed the decline of power on the absence of an environment for change progress.
• Armenia was originally a Christian nation, and by the 1880s they began to demand their freedom from the Muslim Turks of the Ottoman empire. Because of this, relations between the two groups began to decline. 
• Throughout the 1890s, Turkish troops killed tens of thousands of Armenians and when World War I erupted in 1914, the Armenians pledged their support to the enemies of the Turks, which resulted in nearly two million Armenians being deported and over 600,000 died of starvation or were killed by Turkish soldiers. 

• I believe this genocide was atrocious. Armenia was a prosperous community once the nation had converted to Christianity. They were peaceful, they created a distinct alphabet for themselves, flourishing literature, art, and had their own unique style of architecture. Throughout the years, they were ruled by many other countries and nations besides their own and finally, they decided to work for their independence and it all came crashing down on them. They were starved and beaten and sent on death marches during which they were raped and tortured and even if they made it to the end of the march, they would be killed anyways. I think the worst part about this genocide is that the Turks to this day refuse to acknowledge that what they did was a genocide. I also think it's terrible that Hitler quoted this genocide thinking that because no one talked about the Armenian Genocide, that he could get away with the Holocaust. 

"Kill without mercy! Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"      - Adolf Hitler