1. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION
World War I
INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION
USHC 5.4

2. USHC-5.4
Analyze the causes and consequences of United States involvement in World War I, including the failure of neutrality and the reasons for the declaration of war, the role of propaganda in creating a unified war effort, the limitation of individual liberties, and Woodrow Wilson’s leadership in the Treaty of Versailles and the creation of the League of Nations.

3. Causes of World War I
Alliance System
Nationalism

4. Map Credit: historicair
Alliances
Map Credit: historicair

5. The Bench Clearing Effect
Photo by MudflapDC

6. Liberty Leading the People (Eugène Delacroix, 1830)
Nationalism
Liberty Leading the People (Eugène Delacroix, 1830)

8. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand June 28, 1914

9. WAR
WAR
WAR
WAR
WAR

10. What does this have to do with US?

11. Photo Credit: Grey World

12. American Neutrality
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…”
-- Washington’s Farewell Address

13. WE’RE MISSING OUT!!!

14. How did we get mixed up in this mess?

15. PROVOCATIONS Dora Style
Where are we going?
* CLAP CLAP CLAP *
World War I!
Cruise Ship
Telegram
Submarine
Press to REPEAT

16. U-BOATS
German Submarines

17. Sinking of the Lusitania May 7, 1915
British Luxury Liner
1,198 Dead
128 Americans

18. “He kept us out of war.”
-- Wilson Campaign Slogan

21. Zimmerman Note (aka, Zimmerman Telegram)

23. PROVOCATIONS Dora Style
Where are we going?
* CLAP CLAP CLAP *
World War I!
Cruise Ship
Telegram
Submarine
Press to REPEAT

24. Wilson’s War Message The Direct Cause:
April, 1917
The Direct Cause:
German policy of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
America’s Mission:
Make the world safe for democracy

25. Grab your gas mask…
Let’s go!

26. Selective Service Act (1917)
Draft Card 

27. PROPAGANDA

28. Propaganda Campaign 1. Recruitment 4. Dehumanize the enemy
Soldiers
Nurses
Sailors
4. Dehumanize the enemy
2. War Financing
3. Conserve Resources

33. 19
The Nineteenth Amendment was submitted to the states for ratification in 1919.
(Ratified 1920)

36. Food Administration

37. UNAMERICAN

38. NO!
Photo by Eltjo Poort

39. DID YOU KNOW?

41. Sheep Clubs
Anyone from a small child to President Wilson can do their part for the war effort.

44. Espionage & Sedition Acts
Read an EXCERPT from the Acts
Outlawed anti-war speech and other activities that undermined the war effort

45. Eugene V. Debs, a socialist labor leader, was jailed for speaking out against the draft.

46. HOT DOG

48. A CRIME TO DISPLAY

50. Armistice
11/
11:00 AM

52. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
PRINCIPLES:
Freedom of the Seas
Reduction of Arms
Open Treaty Negotiations
Self Determination of Peoples
League of Nations 14

53. Irony
USS George Washington

54. PEACE Without Victory

55. More Info

57. “War Guilt” Clause
Germany claims responsibility for the war and agrees to pay reparations to the allies.

58. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
PRINCIPLES:
Freedom of the Seas
Reduction of Arms
Open Treaty Negotiations
Self Determination of Peoples
League of Nations 14

59. Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Wilson scores TWO big victories.

60. Re-drawn along ethnic lines
New National Borders
Re-drawn along ethnic lines
LINK TO MAPS

61. The League of Nations
Wilson’s Baby

62. LEARNING.
DELIVERED.