1. Bellringer:
Create a Frayer Model for either the word “Sedition” and “Espionage”
Spain

2. Cornell Notes: Instructional Statements
I will receive instruction on . . .
Changes in American society as a result of U.S. entry to WWI.
I will have mastered the concept when I can
Create a graphic organizer depicting the changes in American Society resulting from U.S. entry to WWI.

3. Essential Question
What changes occurred in American society as a result of U.S. entry to World War I?

4. The Great War: Home Front 1917 – 1918
PowerPoint by Mr. Hataway
10/21/2012
US History, Unit 04 Lesson: 03

5. “It is not an army that we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.”
President Wilson

6. Economy Food Administration (1917) Headed by Herbert Hoover
Increased agricultural output
encourage Americans to conserve food
Recruited labor/organized labor

7. Economy Financing war “Liberty Bonds” and “Victory Bonds”
loan to the government
used famous artists to make posters; movie stars to host bond rallies.
Al Jolson, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin.

8. Economy

9. New Opportunities Women 18th Amendment (1920) Prohibition
19th Amendment (1920) Suffrage

10. New Opportunities African Americans
Great Migration – jobs in the North
Race riots

11. Suppressing Dissent Espionage Act (1917)
Illegal to interfere with military recruiting;
or disclosure of information dealing with national defense

12. Suppressing Dissent Sedition Act (1918)
outlawed speaking out against the government;
or American involvement in World War I.

13. Suppressing Dissent Constitutional Issues:
Schenck v. the United States (1919)
Supreme Court ruling limiting individual’s freedom of speech if words spoken constitute a “clear and present danger.”
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

14. TOTAL WAR Selective Service Act (1917)
Drafted men age 21 to 30 (later 18 to 45)
Put 3 million men into uniform

16. TOTAL WAR John J. “Black Jack” Pershing Graduate of West Point
Fought in Spanish-American War
Led the American Expeditionary Force in WWI Europe.
Pursued Pancho Villa in Mexico, unsuccessfully.

17. TOTAL WAR Trench warfare in Argonne Forest
a.k.a. the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Part of the final Allied offensive of World War I

19. TOTAL WAR Alvin York Led attack on German machine gun nest.
Captured 132 others.
Awarded the Medal of Honor.
Most decorated soldier of WWI.

20. TOTAL WAR
New weapons and strategies

21. Isolationism or Intervention?
Wilson’s 14 Points – Plan for Peace
Open diplomacy
Freedom of the seas
Removal of international trade barriers
Reduction in armaments
Self-determination for nationalities
Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France
Last point – create League of Nations

22. Isolationism or Intervention?
League of Nations
International organization which the U.S. would play a large role
End to U.S. isolationism
U.S. participation required ratification of Treaty of Versailles

24. Isolationism or Intervention?
Treaty of Versailles
Forced Germany to accept responsibility for causing the war
Pay reparations ($33 billion)
Germany loses all African colonies

25. Isolationism or Intervention?
Pre-WWI
Post-WWI

26. Isolationism or Intervention?
American Opposition to the Versailles Treaty
Henry Cabot Lodge & The Republican Senate
Wilson travels across America to win support; suffers a stroke (Sept. 1919)
Senate rejects Versailles Treaty (Jan. 1920)

27. Start Study for Test!!!!