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Militarism – all countries hoped to demonstrate that they had come out of the Industrial Revolution as the strongest power
Alliances- designed to prevent war, but can you see the paradox?
Imperialism- Who would get the most valuable colonies?
Nationalism- Our race is the ‘fittest’
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• A Serbian Nationalist assassinated Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
• Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
• All alliances were drawn into the war
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Allies/Triple Entente
• France
• Russia
• Great Britain
• Serbia
Central Powers/Triple Alliance
• Austria-Hungary
• Germany
• Ottoman Empire
• Italy switched sides to the Allies during the course of the war
• United States joined the allies in 1917
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•Neutrality, at First
•Many Americans of all European background German, British, Russian, etc.
• Investments:
• American business loaned 2.25 billion dollars to the Allies
•Very little to Central Powers
• Allies lose = loss of money causes some to lean towards allies
•Germans become bad guys:
•They attacked first and brutally crushed tiny Belgium
•Germans used unrestricted submarine warfare (u-boats) to fight British blockade
•Cruise ship – the Lusitania – was sunk - 128 Americans died
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• Zimmerman Telegram:
• Germany sent a note
to Mexico encouraging
them to join the Central
Powers and attack the U.S.
• Germany promised
them American territory
• U.S. intercepted telegram
•This should make more sense than it did in your World History course. Why?
•We know about U.S. intervention in Mexico right before the war (Pancho Villa, etc.)
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Russia Collapses
• Russia and Germany are monarchies –
• Remaining Allies are all democracies
• Allows the U.S. to say we are joining WWI for democracy, not just for money
United States Declares war in April 1917
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• War was fought on fronts
• Trench war was fought on the Western Front
• Many new weapons were developed such as machine guns and submarines
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• Liberty Bonds:
• bonds sold to the public to finance the war – raised over $20 billion
• Government Control of the Economy:
• President Wilson created agencies to oversee domestic production
• production of all goods was managed by the government to aid war effort
• ways to preserve energy were also instituted (beginning of daylight savings)
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• Enforcing Loyalty:
• fear of spies, specifically Germans
• rise of discrimination and nativism
• enacted policies to enforce loyalty (Espionage & Sedition Act) that violated First Amendment’s free speech
• Women and Minorities:
• war had limited labor pool by ending immigration and sending white males to the war
• job opportunities opened up for minorities, specifically African and Mexican Americans, and women•Great Migration of southern black to the north to find greaterequality and WWI related jobs
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• U.S. sends 2 million troops to fight exhausted Central Power
• Germany surrenders on November 11, 1918
• Flu Epidemic Sweeps World
• estimated that half a million Americans died and 30 million people worldwide died in less than a year
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U.S. Is Now Clearly a Great World Power, if not the World Power
• Allies had purchased billions of dollars worth of stuff from the U.S.
• Now had to repay it • European powers are weakened, U.S. is
strengthened • In the post war treaty, the U.S. called for leniency
towards Germany, but this plan was rejected (by who?) in favor of harsh punishment and reparations– France and Britain – Reparations = $ paid by those responsible for a war