WWI and Its Aftermaths

What Caused the War?

Trench Warfare

Machine Guns

No Man’

s Land

Chemical Warfare

Top song of 1915 https

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhjT93Xa3U

Opposition to the War

Women’s Peace Party

The 1916 Election

Why did the U.S. join the war?

The Lusitania, 1915

The Zimmerman Telegram, 1917

Financial Interests

Declaration of War

Discussion of readings by Woodrow Wilson and Eugene V. Debs

War Industries Board

Railroad Administration

Food Administration

National War Labor Board

Committee on Public Information

Organizing the War Economy

Marketing the War

Committee on Public Information Press releases, advertisements, cartoons,

editorials “Four Minute Men” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

C5KhZj_SxO4

Selling the War

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Private citizens

Under the direction of the FBI

Identifying Germany sympathizers

Spying on radicals

250,000 members

American Protective League

Preventing Future Wars?

At the end of WWI, world leaders looked for ways to prevent future wars. What suggestions would

you present?

Aftermaths of War

1. Open diplomacy

2. Freedom of the seas

3. Free Trade

4. Reduction of armaments

5. Self-determination

6. Russia

7. Belgium

8. France

9. Italy

10.Austria-Hungary

11.The Balkans

12.Turkey

13.Poland

14.A league of nations

Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”

Required Germany to:

Accept full responsibility

Pay reparations

Give up land

Cede its colonies

Limits on army & navy

Destroy military bases

Not buy or manufacture weapons

Treaty of Versailles, 1919

Economic Woes

Race Riots

Strikes

The Steelworkers’ Strike

Seattle General Strike

Boston Police Strike

The Red Scare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM

Suffrage, 1920

Prohibition