1. Mexican Americans in World War I 1914-1918

2.   Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism European Background

3.  Balkans Powder keg Ottoman Empire Austro-Hungarian Empire German Empire  Alliances in Europe Allied Powers Central Powers

4.  World War I  Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand  Modern Trench Warfare

5.   President Wilson’s Neutrality  Continued trade and financing of warring nations  Why was neutrality important?  Positive economic impact on the U.S. “We are all making more money out of this war than the average human being ought to.” - A Steel Executive U.S. Response

6.   Issues of International Law  Germany and submarine warfare  Britain and blockade of non-contraband goods  Sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915  Zimmerman Telegram, 1917  Bolshevik Revolution U.S. Response

8.  Wilson wins the 1916 Presidential election “He kept us out of war” U.S. Response

9.  Wilson asks Congress for a declaration of war to “make the world safe for democracy” He later states: “Think of what it was they were applauding. My message of today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.”

10.  The Homefront  Opposition to the war Eugene V. Debs, “Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses.” Espionage Act (1917), Sedition Act (1918)  Selective Service Act, 1917 Able-bodied men between 21 – 31 100,000 – 200,000 Latinos serve

11.   Increased demand for labor African American migration to the north Mexican & Mexican American migration National War Labor Board  Propaganda & Anti-German sentiment Hollywood films & Songs produced Images of bigotry & hysteria “Liberty cabbage” The Homefront

12.  El Plan de San Diego “…to proclaim the liberty of blacks from the ‘Yankee tyranny’ that had held them in ‘iniquitous slavery since remote times’”  Revolt orchestrated by Tejanos in South Texas, 1915  Establishment of independent republic ruled by non-whites  Called for an army of Mexican Americans, black citizens, and Japanese  Restoration of tribal Indian land  Violence against white men over the age of 16

13.  Plan de San Diego Consequences  Mass-hysteria across South Texas  Texas Rangers responsible for ending rebellion  “License to Kill” Over 5,000 people killed

14.  America at War ● Role of Women in the war ● African Americans in WWI o Camp Logan Riots, 1917 ● War in the air ● Issues of sex & STDs

15.  Fourteen Points  President Wilson, January 1918  Outlined aims of postwar Self-determination Freedom of the Seas Freedom of Trade Readjustment of colonial claims  League of Nations

16.  Treaty of Versailles  June 1919  Creation of Nation States  Punishment of Germany  League of Nations David Lloyd George, Orlando Vittorio, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson

17. Post WWI Creation of Nation States

18.  Post WWI  Punishment of Germany $33 billion in reparations Limits on Germany’s military French occupation of the Rhineland “If I were Germany, I think I should not sign it…” - Woodrow Wilson

19.  Post WWI  League of Nations Idea of collective security Republicans in the U.S. opposed

20.   U.S. fought the Red Army  Funding given to the White Army  U.S. Military exits in 1920  Fear of communist spread The Bolsheviks

21.  The First Red Scare  Fear of labor becoming Soviet- style revolution  Palmer Raids, 1919-20  J. Edgar Hoover & investigations of Americans  American Protective League  Crushing the IWW