World War I

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World War I

• Why US in WWI German submarine warfare sympathy
  for England and allies US industrial growth and
  trade with Europe Wilson
  
• Major events Neutrality stand aid to allies
  (2b vs. 27m) 1916 election U-Boat attacks on
  Am. ships in 1917
  
• Wilson won 1916 Stay out of war

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Significance of WWI

• US entry turned the tide against Germany and made
  US a world superpower
  
• At home wartime propaganda pushed conformity and
  postwar Red Scare
  
• Impact on Progressivism war shadowed reforms but
  women won the votes for their contributions
  

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What Happened to African Americans?

• The Great Migration Left South for Northern war
  factories
  
• Racial tensions rising in northern cities
• Progressivisms failure to improve African
  American civil rights segregation of Wash. DC
  
• Veterans became leaders for civil rights

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What Happened to Women?

• Wartime jobs and service in military if only
  briefly
  
• Many opposed war but others supported it, helping
  to win Wilsons support for suffrage
  
• 19th amendment ratified in 1920