1. What caused WWI? How did the US get involved?
THINK WAY BACK WHEN TO YOUR WESTERN CIV CLASSES

2. You are (MANIAC)s if you don’t know
Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination
Competition

3. What was the US doing while Europe was getting involved in WWI?
Wilson- Anglophile – only PH.D President- covertly supported British
Isolation- official policy
National Defense Act – increased # of soldiers

4. How did the US finally find itself involved in the war?
Protecting Shipping
Lusitania
Uboats May 1915
NOPE- didn’t cause it- but
Did lead US to become more
Engaged.
February 1917
YUP-big factor!
Germans declare
unrestricted warfare on all shipping

6. Publically announced March 1, 1917
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Publically announced March 1, 1917

10. American Red Cross- Private aid organization

11. May
Sinking of the Lusitania. War talk begins in the United States.
1916
June
National Defense Act expands the Army
1917
February
Germany renews unrestricted submarine warfare. U.S.S. Housatonic sunk. U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Germany
April
U.S. declares war.
Selective Service Act
First Liberty Loan
July
War Industries Board
August
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
October
War Revenue Act
November
Second Liberty Loan
December
Railroads are nationalized.
1918
January
Maximum prices for steel
March
Bernard Baruch heads the War Industries Board Germans begin massive offensive on the western front
Third Liberty Loan First independent action by the American Expeditionary Force
Battle of Belleau Wood – the first sizable U.S. action
Second Battle of the Marne – German offensive stopped
September
900,000 Americans in the Battle of Meuse-Argonne
Fourth Liberty Loan
Armistice

12. US moves towards war
Selective Service Act
Jim Crow joins the army…

13. What was the fighting actually like?
Doughboys
Trenches
Machine guns
Tanks
Mustard gas

14. War ends November 11th, at 11AM in 1918
8.5 Million dead, 21 million wounded
Civilian cost as well…
Monetary cost as well…
A little over 50,000 American deaths
Treaty of Versailles

15. Woodrow Wilson and post war atmosphere – Treaty of Versailles
14 points:
Ending secret treaties
Agreeing to freedom of the seas
Removing economic barriers to trade
Reducing the size of national armies and navies
Adjusting colonial claims with fairness towards colonial peoples
Redrawing national borders – giving of self-determination
Creation of League of Nations