1. Get out your homework & turn to the cartoon: finish these questions using the picture then turn in

2. What events led up to the U.S. entering WWI?
Review!
What events led up to the U.S. entering WWI?

3. 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures
Militarism…
Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of £s.
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1914 94
130
154
268
289
398
Increase in Defense Expenditures
France
10%
Britain
13%
Russia
39%
Germany
73%

4. Imperialism

5. Nationalism

6. VS. Allied Powers: Central Powers: Great Britain Germany Austria-
Hungary
France
VS.
Ottoman
Empire
Russia
Italy
Bulgaria

8. WWI US
Homefront

9. Unemployment disappears Ration (limit) amount of food/fuel per person
Economic Impact
War Industries Board Oversaw production in factories/on farms (weapons, food, uniforms)
Production inc 20%
Unemployment disappears
Ration (limit) amount of food/fuel per person
a. Prohibition: 18th Amendment: alcohol made illegal because grain needed to feed soldiers

10. Economic Impact
Mass production: factories need to become more efficient to produce for the war
Gov’t involves itself MORE with production, monitored how crops were transported on trains, encourage farmers to produce more, set prices
Free enterprise (economic freedom) was reduced to meet need of the war, heavily regulated
Industries forced to change what they made to provide for soldiers (dress makers > uniforms)

11. Women’s Roles Change: Men away at war, women enter the workforce
Social Impact
Women’s Roles Change: Men away at war, women enter the workforce
Worked on railroads, in factories, telegraph operations, and other jobs typically done by men
Showing American society their economic and political worth transforms the social landscape…

12. Racial tensions prevail
Social Impact
New Job opportunities
Great Migration - 500,000 African Americans move North to work in factories
13,000 women join the Navy
Racial tensions prevail
Army remains segregated
Race riots in the North over competition for jobs

13. African-Americans on a Troop Ship Headed for France

15. Political Impact
Espionage Act: illegal to interfere with foreign relations (SPYING!)
Dumba Affair
“The Duplicity (dishonesty) of Dumba and His Dupe (fool) ”

16. Communists Ex.) The Soviet Union Complete government control
Ultimate goal = utopian society with no need for gov’t … this is the closest anyone came to “communism”
Extreme form of socialism

17. Socialists
Socialism = the government owns the basic means of production, determines the use of resources, distributes the products and wages, and provides social services such as education, health care, and welfare
Ex.) Sweden
Govt organizes / controls more social programs in order to ensure that all have equal access = higher taxes to pay for all programs

18. Eugene V. Debs Eugene V Debs = American union leader
founder of Industrial Workers of the World (socialist labor union)
arrested for anti-war speech
Outspoken Socialist (leftist): social ownership and democratic control of the means of production; production is for NEED, not profit. (communism is extreme form of socialism)
Red Scare: fear of communism…Communist revolution in Russia had Americans scared of it taking over the U.S.

19. Eugene V. Debs
“To hell with war, to hell with all who crave it. When masters rule the world no more, we’ll needs no wars to save it.”
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work the hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial task, have the least

20. Immigration Act of 1917
Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, the first legislation to dramatically limit immigration into the U.S. It introduced rulings that singled out specific countries and ethnicities

21. 3. 19th Amendment = women’s suffrage
Political Impact
3. 19th Amendment = women’s suffrage
Carrie Chapman Catt = President of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
State by state to get the vote
Alice Paul = President of National Women’s Party (NWP)
Congressional Amendment

22. Iron Jawed Angels Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyB3tV9kU0
Women’s Suffrage Crash Course
Just for fun 