1. MAP Label the following on your map in ink
MAP Label the following on your map in ink. Color the countries based on their alliance. Orange-Central Powers, Yellow – Neutral and Green – Allies. Make a Key/Legend for the colors in the box. Use the map on page 375. Neatness counts.
Germany
Serbia
Montenegro
Ottoman Empire
Albania
Greece
Bulgaria
Romania
Denmark
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Britain
Portugal
Spain
Belgium
France
Russia
Switzerland
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Luxembourg
You will have
only 15 minutes
to complete
the map.
Do not waste
your time!

2. Week 5 Journal 19 For Monday’s Journal write Map Activity.
Read the yellow booklet on your desk.
Answer the questions below in Tuesday’s section.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand?
What happened to bring Great Britain into the war?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Why did the US decide to send supplies to the Allies?
How long did the war last?
Tell one change that took place in the US as a result of World War I.

3. US Entry to World War answer the following
Situation 1
War breaks out in Europe between two great alliance systems called Central Powers and Allies. The disputed issues have nothing to do with the United States. Both alliances want to buy American goods.
What should the US do?
1. Sell to both alliances
2. Sell only to one alliance
3. Do not sell to either alliance
4. Other (specify)

4. WORLD WAR I

5. Remember these people? Pancho Villa American Engineers
General Pershing
What are relations like between the countries represented here?
What do you think this has to do with World War I?

6. Section 1
World War I Begins

7. LONG TERM CAUSES Nationalism Imperialism Militarism Alliance System
Triple Entente’
Central Powers

8. THE ROAD TO WAR Balkan Peninsula Archduke Ferdinand July 28, 1914
Black Hand
Gavrillo Princip
Domino Effect

9. US Entry into World War I
Situation 2
The Central Powers attack and quickly defeat a small neutral nation. Gruesome stories appear in American newspapers about the atrocities committed by the Central Powers against people of the defeated country.
What should the US do?
Do nothing, since it doesn’t concern the US
Stop selling products to the Central Powers
Issue a statement condemning the Central Powers’ actions
Declare war on the Central Powers
Other (specify)

10. THE FIGHTING STARTS Germans Kaiser Wilhelm III Trench Warfare
Joseph Glidden
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
No Man’s Land

12. US Entry into World War I
Situation 3
The Allies stop United States ships and confiscates goods purchased by the Central Powers. The Allies ignore formal complaints by the United States.
What should the US do?

13. AMERICAN STAND ON THE WAR
Neutrality
William Jennings Bryan
Opposition
Naturalized Citizens
Socialists – Eugene V. Debs
Pacifists – Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
Sympathy for Allies
German Aggression
US Economic Ties

14. US Entry into World War I
Situation 4
The Allies blockade the ports of The Central Powers which, in desperation, used submarines to attack all ships sailing to and from the ports of The Allies. Neutral US ships, which are protected by international laws are sunk by the submarines.
What should the US do?

15. THE ROAD TO US INVOLVEMENT
British Blockade
Contraband
Winston Churchill
German U-Boat Counter Blockade

16. US Entry into World War I
Situation 5
A Central Power submarine sinks a luxury liner belonging to the Allies. Over one thousand passengers drown including 100 vacationing Americans. The Central Powers boast about its actions.
What should the US do?

17. US Entry into World War I
Situation 6
The Central Powers promise to stop sinking liners without first warning them and providing for the passengers’ safety. The Central Powers soon disregard its promise and resumes unrestricted submarine warfare on neutral American ships.
What should the US do?

18. US Entry into World War I
Situation 7
America learns that the Central Powers asked Mexico to aid in an attack against the US if America enters the war. In return, parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona that originally belonged to Mexico will be returned.
What should the US do?

19. THE ROAD TO US INVOLVEMENT
American Reactions
Lusitania
Wilson Talks to Germany
Sussex Pledge
May 1916 – January 1917
National Defense Act of 1916
Strengthened the scope of the National Guard and guaranteed its status as our reserve military

20. NEUTRALITY COLLAPSES Campaign Slogan - - - Wilson’s Speech
“He kept us out of war!”
Wilson’s Speech
Germany stop or we will get involved
Zimmerman Telegraph
Arthur Zimmerman
January 1917
April 2, 1917

21. US Entry into World War I
Closure
Was the US entry into World War I inevitable?
Was there anything that the participating nations could have done to prevent it?
What are the most effective responses to prevent war?

22. AMERICAN POWER TIPS THE BALANCE
SECTION 2
AMERICAN POWER TIPS THE BALANCE

23. Marquis Claude Wiginton
AMERICA MOBILIZES
Conscription – forced military service
Selective Service Act
Training
Where is the fighting?
So we have to
Produce and ship goods
Transport Troops
Marquis Claude Wiginton
1917

24. BUILDING A BRIDGE CONVOY SYSTEM Four Steps Ship yard workers
Service flags
Fabrication
Government takeovers
CONVOY SYSTEM

25. Week 4 Journal 17 Name the four long term causes of World War I.
What were the two things that drew the US into World War I?

26. Once in Europe the Doughboys. . . . General Foch Dorothy Lawrence
General Pershing
Request – bilingual switchboard operators
Oleda Joure

27. Week 5 Journal 20 1. Divide your journal section into two columns
Head the first column “Central Powers”
Head the second column “Triple Entente”
When the war started these were the alliances. List the 3 countries for the Triple Entente and 5 countries for the Central Powers. ( when the war started – before 1915)
2. Which of these alliances became known as the “Allies”?
3. What country left the Central Powers and why?
4. What country left the Allies and why?

28. FIGHTING IN EUROPE New Weapons Medical Care Big Bertha Zeppelins
Machine Guns
Mechanized Warfare
Eddie Rickenbacker
Manfred Richthofen
Red Barron
Medical Care
Red Cross
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Emma Elizabeth Weaver

31. American Troops Go on the Offensive
Italy – Vittorio Orlando
Russia
Vladimir Lenin
Bolshevik Party
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Tsar Nicholas II
Fresh Troops make the difference

32. THE TIDE TURNS
Western Front
Alvin York
Conscientious Objector

33. THE COLLAPSE OF GERMANY
SURRENDER
November 3, 1918
Kaiser Wilhelm III
Mutiny
11th Hour – 11th Day – 11th Month

34. WORLD WAR I FACTS The war lasted almost four years.
The war involved more than 30 nations.
About 26 million died. Of those ½ were civilians.
20 million more were wounded.
10 million became refugees.

35. SECTION 3
THE WAR AT HOME

36. What ignited the start of the war?
Who was blamed for the Archduke’s assassination?
Why did Britain declare war on Germany?
How General Foch want to use the US forces in Europe?
How did the war change the US economy?

37. CONGRESS GIVES POWER TO WILSON
During times of war, congress gives the president a little more freedom with his powers

38. DIRECT ECONOMIC CONTROL
entire economy must be mobilized
consumer goods to making war supplies
Wilson could set prices and regulate war related industries

39. WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD
Encouraged industries to increase efficiency and use mass production
Price controls were placed on the wholesale level but not retail
Prices went up for consumers and profits went up for owners

40. SIDE EFFECTS OF CONTROLS
Corsets
8,000 tons of steel
Make two battle ships
Tall leather boots
Soldiers’ boots
Long skirts
Uniforms
Gasless Sundays, lightless nights…
March 1918 – Daylight savings time

41. JOURNAL 15 Read the quote and answer the questions that follow.
“There is a growing frenzy of suspicion and hostility toward disloyalty. I am afraid we are going to have a good many instances of people roughly treated on very slight evidence of disloyalty.”
What is the writer concerned about?
What is the writer meaning by “disloyalty?”

42. WAR ECONOMY sweetless wheatless meatless Victory Gardens
Wages in some industries rose
Others did not but the prices continued to rise
National War Labor Board – Bernard Baruch
Established by Wilson to deal with disputes between workers and management
His answer WORK OR FIGHT !
Food Administration – Herbert Hoover
Helped produce and conserve food
wheatless
meatless
Victory
Gardens

43. “Hooverize”

44. SELLING THE WAR War financing Committee on Public Information
US spent about 33 billion on the war
1/3 from taxes the other from WAR BONDS
Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds
Committee on Public Information
Organized to popularize the war
Propaganda
Posters
“Four Minute Men”

45. ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES
Anti-immigrant hysteria
Foreign born Americans were attacked
Mainly German and Austria-Hungarians
Even Native-born Americans of German descent
Lost jobs
No music of German artists
Anti-German acts
Hamburger, sauerkraut, dachshunds

46. ESPIONAGE ACT June 1917 Illegal to spy against your country
Schenck v. The United States

47. SEDITION ACT May 1918 Established penalties for
interfering with the draft
Obstructing war bonds
Being anti-war
Some newspapers lost mail privileges because of articles printed
Socialists were targeted with these acts
Eugene V. Debs

48. SOCIAL CHANGES DURING WORLD WAR I
African Americans and the War
Opinion was divided but most supported the war
The Great Migration
The war accelerated migration north
Factors
Escape racial discrimination
Boll weevils, floods and droughts
Assembly lines/factory jobs
WW I and drop in immigration numbers opened jobs

49. Women and the War
Women found themselves filling jobs that were traditionally held by men
Some participated in the peace movement
19th amendment was passed

50. Flu Epidemic 1/4th of US population suffered
It was an international epidemic
Businesses closed
Coffin shortage

51. SECTION 4
WILSON
FIGHTS
FOR
PEACE

52. Wilson Presents His Plan
Fourteen Points
Presented to congress 1/18/18
Three groups – divide section into three columns
1. -No secret treaties
-freedom of the seas
- Reduce arms
-Colonial policies be considerate
of all involved

53. 2. -The next eight dealt with
specific boundaries
- Ethnic groups could
decide for themselves
what country they
belonged to

54. Discuss and settle disputes before going to war
3. Last point called for the organization of the LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Discuss and settle disputes before going to war

55. ALLIES REJECT WILSON’S PLAN
Each had their own reason for rejecting the plan

56. CLEMENCEAU France Slogan was: “MAKE GERMANY PAY”
Wanted to protect from future invasions of France
He had lived through 2 invasions

57. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Britain Won reelection
Wanted Germany to be responsible

58. ORLANDO
Italy
Wanted control of the Austrian territory

59. The Central Powers were not included in the talks
Only the “BIG FOUR”
France
Britain
United States
Italy
Russia was not invited to the talks

60. Week 5 Journal 21
Write one important fact from each of the following topics:
World War I
World War I on the Home Front
Peace Efforts(Fourteen Points and Treaty of Versailles)

61. TREATY OF VERSAILLES Provisions of the treaty
1. Established nine new nations
Including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
Moved boundaries of other countries

62. 2. Carved 4 areas out of the Ottoman Empire and gave them to Britain and France as mandates
Britain got - Iraq, Palestine, Trans-Jordan
France got – Syria, Lebanon

63. 3. Germany was demilitarized
Their army was reduced to 100,000 men
4. Germany had to return Alsace-Lorraine to France

64. 5. Germany had to pay reparations to Allies
6. Germany was forced to acknowledge that it alone was responsible for the war
7. Establish the League of Nations

65. THE TREATY’S WEAKNESSES
Harsh on Germany causing it to be hard to establish lasting peace
Germany was humiliated
Germany was never going to be able to pay reparations

66. Russia lost more land than Germany
Russia felt ignored by the “BIG FOUR” – they had not been included in the peace talks
Russia lost more land than Germany
Germany was stripped of its colonial possessions
Could have helped pay reparations

67. HOMEROOM PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE OR WRITE ON THE NAME TAGS ON YOUR DESKS
THANK YOU SO MUCH
HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY

68. BOTH Treaty of Wilson’s Versailles Fourteen Points Be nice points
Create mandates
Germany demilitarize
G. Return land to F.
G pay reparations
G take responsibility
Be nice points
Reduce arms
No secret treaties
Freedom of the seas
Respect other countries
possessions and peoples
New countries
New boundaries
Create League
Of Nations

69. Propaganda
Any widespread effort to promote an idea, opinion, or course of action in order to help or do damage to a cause or person etc…

75. About this time in history . . . . . HO CHI MINH
Asked Wilson to help him establish a constitutional government in Vietnam
Wilson refused
Ho Chi Minh later established the Indochina Communist Party
Fought against the French and Americans in the ‘60s and ‘70s

76. OPPOSITION TO THE TREATY
Many Americans were against the treaty because it was so harsh and seemed to support imperialism.

77. US DEBATE OVER THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Some Americans felt it contradicted the US policy of staying out of European affairs
Henry Cabot Lodge led the opposition to membership in the League of Nations

78. Wilson did not chose the delegation carefully – lots of opposition
He appealed to the people
8000 mile tour
He had a stroke
Partially paralyzed for 2 months
This is not a time
for tactics. It is a time
to stand square. I cannot stand
retreat from a conscience
duty.

79. US signed a separate treaty with Germany 1921
Wilson was not president now
Never joined the League of Nations
US had an observer at the meetings

80. LEGACY OF WAR
Germans were shocked by the armistice and the Treaty of Versailles
Desperate economic conditions in Germany
1923 depression
Burned money for fuel
Loss of jobs

81. Germans were searching for scapegoats
Adolph Hitler – Austrian Corporal
Blamed problems on Jews and socialists
He and Nazi party won control of the German Government in 1933
His policies led to WW II

82. The war had strengthened Americans’ determination to stay out of European affairs
Isolationism
They wanted to return to normal

83. CREATE A TIMELINE Large enough to read easily
Include at least 8 international events and dates
Include at least 4 US events and dates
Range of years 1900 to 1920
Include two or more visuals
Make sure you use relevant dates
Make it interesting

84. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AFTER WORLD WAR I
During war many items had been rationed
War is over and price freezes were lifted
Everybody is buying everything
Caused rapid inflation
Raised the cost of living

85. The standard of living rose also
Electrical convenience
Radios, refrigerators, stoves, toasters
Airplane industry took off
1918 – 1st mail
1927 – passenger
Automobiles became popular

86. STRIKES During the war Wilson did not allow strikes
When the war was over many workers went on strike
1919 – 3,600 strikes involving four million workers

87. SEATTLE GENERAL STRIKE
Wanted higher wages and shorter hours
Walked off job
Grew into a GENERAL STRIKE
Did not get demands
Caused fear among American people
This was a tactic used by European Communist Workers

88. BOSTON POLICE STRIKE 75% of police walked off the job
Riots and looting started
Mass. Governor CALVIN COOLIDGE called in National Guard
Police commissioner fired strikers and hired new officers

89. THE STEEL STRIKE 350,000 workers walked off job
Elbert Gary – head of US Steel – would not talk to union
Used anti immigrant feelings to split workers
Hired African Americans and Mexicans to keep steel mills open
Strike collapsed

90. RACIAL UNREST American soldiers returned home from war needing a job
Jobs were filled with African Americans
Much violence
Summer 1919 – 20 race riots
Worst in Chicago – days
38 killed – 15 white – 23 black
500
injured

91. RED SCARE
An increase in strikes caused concern about the spread of communism
Believed communist would take control of the government

92. April 1919 - postal service intercepted more than 30 packages with bombs
Targeted leading business men
June 1919
8 bombs in 8 cities went off within minutes of each other
Could be a nation wide conspiracy

93. 70,000 Americans joined the communist party
Communist wanted to
Overthrow capitalist system
Abolish free enterprise
Abolish private property

94. PALMER RAIDS
One of bombs damaged home of US Atty. Gen. Mitchell Palmer
Took action against the Red Scare
Appointed J. Edgar Hoover as head of Anti-radical Division of the Justice Department
FBI

95. Palmer sent agents to hunt down communists, anarchists, socialists
Agents showed no regard for civil rights
Deported many without trial
Raids never turned up anything
Claimed something big would happen on May 1, 1920
It did not and people stopped listening to him

96. END OF PROGRESSIVISM 1920 election
Roosevelt ran on a platform of continuing Wilson’s programs
Harding ran on a platform of a return to NORMALCY
Wins in a landslide

97. The people of the country hoped to stop the racial tensions and labor unrest and fix the economic problems
They wanted a more stable society