1. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
US Entrance into World War I
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

2. Three questions tonight and throughout the course: What is history
Three questions tonight and throughout the course: What is history? What do we know about it, especially early American history? ? How do we know?

3. We will pursue our understanding of American history through essential questions. Essential questions - are open-ended, no single definitive answer - tie the past to the present - require analytical thinking (SHEG) and techniques - examine primary and secondary sources - must be supported by American history content

4. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Should America’s foreign policy be based on promoting our values of freedom, equality, and rule of law even though we may giving up our military, economic or cultural advantages? Or should our foreign policy be based on our own self-interest, “what’s best for America”, even if it violates our values?

5. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
8 questions:
Movie maker Robert Goldstein was sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a movie, “The Spirit of ‘76”, about the Revolutionary War

6. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

7. TR and the “Big Stick”: 1. Policy of Personality
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Notes
“There is not an event in the world today in which the United States is not interested.” - Teddy Roosevelt

8. TR and the “Big Stick” 2. The “Big Ditch”: Panama
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
TR and the “Big Stick” 2. The “Big Ditch”: Panama

9. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

10. Notes: “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
US Entrance into World War I
Notes:

11. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

12. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“The force of America is the force of moral principle.”
- W. Wilson

13. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

14. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

15. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

16. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier
Al Bryan w/music by Al Piantadosi Ten mil - lion sol-diers to the war have gone  who may nev - er re-turn a - gain.____ Ten mil - lion moth - er's hearts  must break for the ones who died in vain_____ Head bowed down in sor - row in her lone - ly years, I heard a moth - er mur - mer through her tears:_______ "I did -n't raise my boy to be a sol - dier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy.____ Who dares to place a mus - ket on his shoul - der to shoot some oth - er moth -er's dar - ling boy?" Let na - tions ar - bi - trate their fu-ture trou - bles. It's time to lay the sword and gun a - way.___ There'd be no war to - day if moth - ers all would say, "I did -n't raise my boy to be a sol - dier“

17. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Notes

18. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

19. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

20. “Waging Neutrality”: 3. Freedom of the Seas (?)

21. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

22. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

23. “Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

24. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

25. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

26. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
8 questions:
Movie maker Robert Goldstein was sentenced to 10 years in prison for making a movie, “The Spirit of ‘76”, about the Revolutionary War

27. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Over There
Johnnie, get your gun, Get your gun, get your gun, Take it on the run, On the run, on the run. Hear them calling, you and me, Every son of liberty. Hurry right away, No delay, go today, Make your daddy glad To have had such a lad. Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line. (chorus sung twice)
Johnnie, get your gun, Get your gun, get your gun, Johnnie show the Hun Who's a son of a gun. Hoist the flag and let her fly, Yankee Doodle do or die. Pack your little kit, Show your grit, do your bit. Yankee to the ranks, From the towns and the tanks. Make your mother proud of you, And the old Red, White and Blue. (chorus sung twice)
Chorus Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word
over there - That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming Ev'rywhere. So prepare, say a pray'r, Send the word, send the word
to beware. We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till
it's over Over there.

28. “Waging Neutrality”: 5. Home Front
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“Waging Neutrality”: 5. Home Front
Notes

29. “Waging Neutrality”: 5. Home Front
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
US Entrance into World War I
“Waging Neutrality”: 5. Home Front

30. “Waging Neutrality”: 5. Home Front
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points

31. “Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

32. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“The world must be made safe for democracy.  Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.  We have no selfish ends to serve.  We desire no conquest, no dominion.  We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.  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.”
– W. Wilson, war declaration to Congress, April, 1917

34. Notes “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points I
Notes

35. Notes “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Notes
Concessions made to England and France from Wilson's original 14 Points
Germany forced to accept all blame for starting the war
Germany stripped of her colonies
Germany had to pay $33 billion in reparations (down from $100 billion)

36. Europe, 1914
Europe, 1919
What year was the first map created?
The second? How do you account for
the differences of the two maps?

38. “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
“The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter [tie up] her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come, as in the years that have gone. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance; this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”
- HC Lodge, in opposition to the treaty

39. Notes “Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Notes

40. Western cartoons, Treaty of Versailles

41. “Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
“Dare We Abandon the World?”:
US in World War I and the Fourteen Points
Outline
TR and the “Big Stick”
“Moral Diplomacy” in Mexico
“Neutral in Thought and Deed”
Freedom of the Seas (?)
“Over There” U.S. Role
Home Front
Fourteen Points and
the Treaty of Versailles
7. Summary
Essential question #2: To what extent did the United States act independently of the rest of the world internationally, socially, technologically, economically and politically from 1914 – 1945?

42. “Waging Neutrality”: US Entrance into World War I
VHS on TR and Ocean Apart
Summary: To what extent was U.S. entrance into World War I “inevitable”?

43. “Dare We Abandon the World
“Dare We Abandon the World?”: the Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles
8 Questions:
Why was President Wilson on his hands and knees at 2 am in his hotel room many days during the Paris Peace Conference?
Summary: How much did the United States change from 1914 to 1919, the WWI years?

44. Wilson denounced Lodge and his allies as “contemptible, narrow, selfish, poor little minds that never get anywhere but run around in a circle and think they are going somewhere.”

45. “Waging Neutrality”: NOVEMBER ELEVENTH
“We stood up and we didn't say a word,
It felt just like when you have dropped your pack
After a hike, and straightened out your back
And seem just twice as light as any bird.
We stood up straight and, God! but it was good!
When you have crouched like that for months, to stand
Straight up and look right out toward No-Man's-Land
And feel the way you never thought you could.
We saw the trenches on the other side
And Jerry, too, not making any fuss,
But prob'ly stupid-happy, just like us.
Nobody shot and no one tried to hide.
If you had listened then I guess you'd heard
A sort of sigh from everybody there,
But all we did was stand and stare and stare,
Just stare and stand and never say a word.”