Warm Up 3/9 1) Name two push factors and two pull factors for moving out West in the late 1800s. 2) What were the problems workers faced in the late 1800 early 1900s? 3) Why did the Socialist movement come about during the Progressive Era? 4) Create a KWL chart in your notes and fill in the Know and Want to Know about World War I.

WWI Focus Question: What were the causes of WWI and how did America react to the start of a global war?

(Race to build bigger and better armies & navies) Causes of the War M- Militarism (Race to build bigger and better armies & navies)

A- Alliance System Secret treaties between countries

(Extreme Patriotism, Idea one ethnic group is better than the rest!) Causes of the War N- Nationalism (Extreme Patriotism, Idea one ethnic group is better than the rest!)

I-Imperialism Economic competition, race for colonies

**THE SPARK** A- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne killed in Serbia

WWI Alliances Allied Powers England France Russia (leaves 1917) U.S.A. (enters 1917) Central Powers Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)

Video Clip WWI Begins Answer: Why is it called the Great War?

The Domino Effect June 14: Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated July 28: A-H declares war on Serbia July 31: Russia sends troops to aid Serbia Aug 1: Germany declares war on Russia Aug 3: Germany declares war on France & invades neutral Belgium. Aug 4: Great Britain declares war on Germany

The Schlieffen Plan Avoid fighting a war with Russia and France at the same time. Plan fails when France does not fall quickly

The Great War Begins Trench Warfare No Man’s Land Won very little land Armies fight using system of ditches No Man’s Land Area between trenches where soldiers were killed Won very little land Hold Russia, attack Fr. fast and then hit Russia Dug in creating vast system of trenches Had a front line, support and reserve trenches 60K casualties for Brits during first day of Somme 1.2 million dead but only 7 miles of land changed hands

Wilson Declares American Neutrality Why did the US Refuse to get involved in the beginning? Territory not directly affected U.S. had cultural and economic ties with both sides divided loyalties Pacifists: against all war Wilson wins re-election in 1916 with slogan “He kept us out of War!”

Reasons the US Enters the War 1. Zimmerman Note (Telegram) Germany sends a telegram to Mexico proposing an alliance

2. Russia: Bolshevik Revolution Russia becomes Communist! Reasons the U.S. Enters 2. Russia: Bolshevik Revolution Russia becomes Communist! When Russia leaves the War, America is more likely to enter

Reasons the US Enters the War 3. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare German war-time policy of using U-boats to sink any ship in Allied territory without warning May 1915: British passenger ship, Lusitania, is sunk 128 Americans killed “There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right” – Wilson in reaction to Lusitania

April 6, 1917: US Declares War “The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty . . . We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.” -Woodrow Wilson

1917 – Selective Service Act 24,000,000 men registered for the draft by the end of 1918. 4,800,000 men served in WW1 (2,000,000 saw active combat). 400,000 African-America were put in segregated units. Most were put in non-combat duties. 15,000 Native-Americans served as scouts, messengers, and snipers in non-segregated units.