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America in World War I Part I: Europe goes to war….finally!
European powers had been heading for War for decades. They had
formed defensive alliances that were just waiting to explode
Their fight was over who got to control the World’s
resources…Imperialism
A political and economic war had been going on for years
An arms race had been fed for years
At the bottom of all this lies Germany’s conviction that everyone
else was ganging up on them to squeeze them out of economic
prosperity
How would this economic competition affect
America in 1914?
America in World War I Part II: WWWD-Avoid Foreign
entanglements, while still demanding we can trade with any folks we
want
Roosevelt Corollary
gentlemen's agreement
dollar diplomacy
General John J. Pershing in
Mexico and Europe
America in World War I Part III:America is drawn into the
war and begins to ready itself
Wilson on the Democrats
JD Rockerfeller on Fund Raising
Frank Vanderlip on Commiting to the War
U-boats and unrestricted submarine warfare
Lusitania
Wilson's Sussex threat and Germany's pledge
Zimmermann telegram
National Security League and preparedness
Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and the
Woman's Peace party
Poster Art of WWI
Wilson realized war was inevitable but agonized over the decision for what it might do to the spirit of the nation. He feared war would change America forever, making her tougher, less humane. "Once lead these people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance ... the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life ... every man who refused to conform would have to pay the penalty."
Full Text of Declaration
'Once lead this people into war,' he said, 'and they'll forget thereever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal andruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the veryfiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, thepoliceman on the beat, the man in the street.' Conformity would bethe only virtue, said the President, and every man who refused toconform would have to pay the penalty.He thought the Constitution would not survive it, that free speechand the right of assembly would go. He said a nation couldn't putits strength into a war and keep its head level; it had never beendone.'If there is any alternative, for God's sake, let's take it,' heexclaimed. Well, I couldn't see any, and I told him so.The President didn't have illusions about how he was going to comeout of it, either. He'd rather have done anything else than head amilitary machine. All his instincts were against it. He foresaw tooclearly the probable influence of a declaration of war on his ownfortunes, the adulation certain to follow the certain victory, thederision and attack which would come with the deflation ofexcessive hopes and in the presence of world responsibility. But ifhe had it to do over again he would take the same course. It wasjust a choice of evils."
Bernard Baruch and the War Industries Board
Herbert Hoover and the Food Administration
William G. McAdoo and the U.S. Railroad Administration
American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks
George Creel and the Committee on Public Information
Randolph Bourne
Espionage and Sedition acts, 1917, 1918
Eugene Debs
Schenck v. United States and the "clear and present danger" doctrine
East St. Louis race riot, 1917; Chicago race riot, 1919
America in World War I Part VI:Over There!
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Europe Thinks it owns the World
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Great Britain
France
Germany
U.S.
What is Germany’s Nightmare!
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