Pre-AP US History Quiz1.Using the following terms and information you

are to create ONE sentence that combines all of the following in a manner that would describe each term and how they all interconnect into one larger thematic CONCEPT.

1.American loans2.Zimmerman telegram3.Sussex Pledge4.Unrestricted submarine warfare2. Wilson’s Fourteen Points intended to?

US: Foreign Affairs: 1900-1920

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwar.htm

Progressive Foreign Policies

Big Stick Diplomacy, Roosevelt Corollary

Dollar Diplomacy

Moralist Diplomacy

Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Honduras

Haiti, Dominican Republic, Mexico

The Yankee Lake

Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy

Condemnation of Imperialism

No support for American investors

Less favors for US shipping

-Panama Canal tolls

Promoted self-determination for people

-Jones Act (Philippines)

Joined in with anti-Imperialists

Worked with Bryan (Secretary of State)

Wilson’s thing with Mexico

1913: Victoriano Huerta leads coup and removes President Madero

Outcomes

US refuses to recognize Huerta

Heavy Mexican immigration to US

Germany supports Huerta

US seizes Veracruz

Tampico incident

US arms to Carranza and Villa

Huerta steps down, Carranza in

Wilson supports Carranza

Wilson’s thing with Mexico

Enter Pancho VillaOpposes Carranza and U.S.

1916: Villistas capture train, kill 16 Americans

1916: Villa raids Columbus, New Mexico

18 Americans killed 1916: Wilson sends Pershing in

-Fails to capture Villa

1917: Removed from Mexico

US Neutrality?? August 1914: Wilson declares US neutrality 1915: Britain throws blockade over Germany in North Sea 1915: Germans began blockade of Great Britain, creation of sub war zone May 7, 1915: Lusitania sunk July 1915: Wilson directs creation of defense programs January 1916: House Memorandum issued seeking peace

US proposes peace conference, if Germany refused US would enter war against Germany. 

The Lusitania

Approx. 1200 killed

128 Americans killed

US on Road to World War I

 

March 1916:Sussex torpedoed

May 1916:

German Sussex pledge after

Wilson threat to

end diplomati

c relations

May 1916:

German Sussex pledge after

Wilson threat to

end diplomati

c relations

January 8, 1917: Germany resumes unrestrict

ed submarine warfare

January 1917:

US army withdraw

n from Mexico

November 1916: Wilson defeats Hughes

for White House

(“He Kept Us Out of

War”)

June 1916:

National Defense

Act passed (5 years expand Army)

February 24, 1917:

Great Britain

releases Zimmer

man telegram

February 3, 1917: US severs relations with Germany

Zimmerman Telegram

US in World War I: EntryMarch 1917: Wilson asks to arm US merchant ships, Congress says no,

Issues Executive Order

March 15, 1917: Czar Nicholas II abdicates in Russia, revolution open enter Lenin. April 6, 1917: US declaration of war against Germany

Submarine Warfare

Zimmerman Telegram

Collapse of Russia

??Protect loans and investments

Black Tom Factory explosion of 1916

A War to End All War

Make the World Safe for Democracy

Preaching of the Fourteen Points

Speech designed to persuade America that the War was being foughtfor moral principles and an everlasting peace.

1. Open covenants

2. Freedom of the seas

3. Removal of economic barriers

4. Reducing armaments

5. Fixing colonial claims6. Evacuation of Russian land7. Belgium made independent8. France evacuated, receive Alsace-Lorraine9. All Italians live in Italy10.Self-Determination for Austria-Hungary11.Self-Determination for Balkan states12.Self-Determination for Ottoman Empire13.Creation of independent Poland

14. Creation of a League of Nations

Creel and Propaganda•Committee of Public Information

Propagandize and promote war in America

Balancing A nation at war with Liberty

Espionage Act

Illegal to interfere with operations or successes of U.S. military or to promote enemyIllegal to give false reports that would interfere with US military success

Recruiting! Main area addressed

Eugene V. Debs arrested for a speech that “obstructed recruiting” 10 years

Sedition Act

Illegal to say anything “disloyal, profane, or abusive” towards the US government or US military while at war

Targets of Espionage and Sedition Acts

Socialists Unions IWW Anti-War Protesters

Schenk v. U.S.

Schenk distributes pamphlets opposing the draft

Arrested and appealed to Supreme Court

Ruling by Court:

Unanimous decision

Freedom of speech can be limited when that speech illustrated:

“A clear and present danger” to the country

Overturned in 1969 by Brandenburg v. Ohio

Similar cases:

Abrams v. US

Debs v. US

A War time Economy•Change to daylight savings time•National War Labor Board

Arbitrate labor disputesAFL nearly doubled its size

Social Changes

Black migration northward for jobs

1919 Steel strikeemployment in war plants

Race riots break out

1917 East St. Louis

Red Scare 1919

Bolshevik Revolution

Union strikes

Mail Bombs

Women’s Suffrage!

19th Amendment Ratified

1920

But:

Muller v. OregonSheppard-Towner Maternity Act 1921

The War Economy

War Industries Board

Bernard Baruch

Food Administration

Herbert Hoover

Railroad Adminstration

US Nationalized

Fuel Administration

US Set Price of Coal

Financing the War

Fighting the War

1. Taxes 2. Borrowing

3. Inflation

200,00 men in 1914

1917: Draft in place

4,000,000 eventually

The End“eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month”

All Quiet On The Western Front