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A.THE ROAD TO WAR WAR IN EUROPE AND PROBLEMS OF NEUTRALITY

GUIDING QUESTION Why did the United States enter the First World War? Assess the relative influence of the following:  German naval policy,  American economic interests,  Woodrow Wilson’s idealism,  allied propaganda,  America’s claim to world power

European Alliances & Battlefronts,

THE ROAD TO WAR  neutrality  submarine warfare  Lusitania (May 1915)  Sussex Pledge (March 1916) The Lusitania in New York City (Library of Congress) Lusitania warning (Cobb Heritage Centre, England; photo by Larry O. Nighswander/NGS)

THE ROAD TO WAR  Economic ties with Britain & France (trade, loans) - arsenal of the Allies  Public opinion Ethnic influences British propaganda  “preparedness” & pacifists Popular 1915 song reflecting antiwar sentiment

THE ROAD TO WAR  Unrestricted submarine warfare  Zimmerman telegram  Russian Revolution (1917)  “The world must be made safe for democracy” (April 2, 1917) German Foreign Minister Alfred Zimmermann U.S. Losses to the German Submarine Campaign, Wilson announcing the breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany, Feb. 3, 1917

B.THE US AT WAR THE FIRST WORLD WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD

GUIDING QUESTION To what extent did the First World War bring about lasting change in American society? Consider:  the experiences of blacks,  women,  civil liberties.

FIGHTING THE WAR  Selective Service Act (1917)  convoy system  American Expeditionary Force (AEF) John J. Pershing Troops leaving for camp, 1917

U.S Role on the Western Front, 1918

Economy: FINANCING THE WAR  “Liberty Bonds”

Economy: Production  “war boards” War Industries Board  Barnard Baruch Railroad Administration Food Administration – Herbert Hoover National War Labor Board - W.H. Taft & Frank P. Walsh (Ohio Historical Society)

Economy & Society: Women  Men’s occupations  19 th Amendment  Lasting Consequences? Midval Steel and Ordnance Co., Nicetown, PA Midval Steel and Ordnance Co., Nicetown, PA Puget Sound Navy Yard, 1919

Economy & Society: African-Americans  “Great Migration” – impact? African American family just arrived in Chicago, 1912 (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library) African American Migration Northward,

Results of New Organization of Economy  Unemployment virtually disappeared  Expansion of “big government”  Excessive government regulations in economy  Some gross mismanagement – overlapping jurisdictions  Close cooperation between public and private sectors  Unprecedented opportunities for women & minorities

PUBLIC OPINION & CIVIL LIBERTIES  peace movement  Committee on Public Information George Creel Committee for Public Information Poster, 1917

PUBLIC OPINION & CIVIL LIBERTIES  Espionage Act of 1917  Sedition Act 1918  Eugene V. Debs  Big Bill Haywood/IWW  Schenk v. U.S. (1919) “clear and present danger”  American Protective League  “one hundred percent Americanism”  German-American community  “Liberty cabbage” IWW Members under arrest

C. TREATY OF VERSAILLES WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS AND THE RATIFICATION FIGHT

GUIDING QUESTIONS  Why did the United States reject the Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War, after President Wilson helped to negotiate the Treaty?  To what extent then did the U.S. achieve the objectives that led it to enter World War I?

TREATY OF VERSAILLES 1. Wilson’s Vision  Wilsonianism  Fourteen Points WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS

TREATY OF VERSAILLES 2.Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World  Bolshevik  The Big Four David Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau Vittorio Orlando  Reparations  League of Nations  “Trusteeship”  internationalism  Treaty of Versailles Orlando, Lord George, Clemenceau, and Wilson in Wilson’s study in Paris

TREATY OF VERSAILLES 3.Rejection  “irreconciliables”  “reservationists”  Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge, 1909 Wilson after his stroke, October 1919 (Library of Congress)

D.SOCIETY & ECONOMY IN THE POSTWAR YEARS

SOCIETY & ECONOMY IN THE POSTWAR YEARS Racial Issues  Red summer of 1919  East St. Louis Riots  Marcus Garvey

SOCIETY & ECONOMY IN THE POSTWAR YEARS Post-war Labor Unrest  Coal Miners Strike of 1919  Steel Strike of 1919  Boston Police Strike of 1919 Labor Union Membership “If capital and labor don’t pull together” Chicago Tribune, 1919

SOCIETY & ECONOMY IN THE POSTWAR YEARS Red Scare  Communist International 3 rd International Goal (1919): promote worldwide communism  Red Scare  Palmer Raids (1920) A. Mitchell Palmer’s Home bombed, 1920 Police arrest “suspected Reds” in Chicago, 1920

SOCIETY & ECONOMY IN THE POSTWAR YEARS “Return to Normalcy”  Warren G. Harding  “Return to Normalcy”  New Revivalism  “fundamentalis”  Billy Sunday  “tabernacles”