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Title: World War I


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World War I
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I. Initial Neutrality
  1. American Neutrality
  2. Wilson issues neutrality proclamation on August
    4, 1914.
  3. By 1917, U.S. became a major supplier of Allied
    munitions, food, and raw materials.

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II. Submarine Crisis Road to War in Europe
  1. 1915, Germans began use of U-Boats? submarines
  2. Began to attack unarmed British passenger ships.
  3. Lusitania-British liner sunk of the coast of
    Ireland on May 7, 1915.
  4. Arabic is sunk
  5. Arabic PledgeGermans will not attack unarmed
    passenger vessels.

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Submarine Crisis Road to War in Europe (contd)
  • 6. The Sussex Pledge (Ultimatum)
  • March 24, 1916unarmed French steamer torpedoed
    but not sunk
  • 7 American injured.
  • The pledge was If ALL U-boat attacks on ALL
    ships did not stop, Wilson would sever all German
    relations.

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Submarine Crisis Road to War in Europe (contd)
  • 7. Jan. 31, 1917-Germany would sink all ships,
    belligerent or neutral
  • Germany could win if they cut off the flow of
    supplies to the Allies.
  • Feb.3, 1917U.S. ends diplomatic relations with
    Germany
  • U.S. merchant ships were sunk.

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Submarine Crisis Road to War in Europe (contd)
  • 11. Zimmerman Telegram
  • 12. From German foreign secretary, Arthur
    Zimmerman
  • U.S. receives it Feb. 24, 1917
  • Mexico should attack the U.S.
  • The lost territories of TX, NM, and AZ would
    then be returned to Mex.
  • March 1, 1917-Released to the American public
    war with Germany was necessary.

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III. Impact of the War at Home
  1. Wilson War to end all Wars
  2. Jan. 1918Wilson announces his Fourteen Points.
  3. Wilson wants peace without victory---the
    victors would not be vindictive toward the
    losers.
  4. Abolishing secret treaties,
  5. Freedom of the seas,
  6. Free trade,
  7. Arms reduction,
  8. end of colonization

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Impact of the War at Home (contd)
  • 14th PointWilson considered the most important
  • Called of a general association of nations to
    preserve the peace (League of Nations)
  • The U.S. many opposed it.

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Impact of the War at Home (contd)
  • Committee of Public Informationby George Creel
  • Propaganda
  • Food AdministrationHerbert Hoover
  • Reduce consumption
  • Meatless Mondays
  • Victory Gardens

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  1. War Industries Board
  2. Production, wages, and prices of manufactured
    goods
  3. Raising the Army?
  4. Selective Service Act, 1917
  5. Conscription of males into military

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Impact of the War at Home (contd)
  1. Civil Liberties?
  2. Germans Anti-war protestors
  3. Espionage Sedition Acts
  4. Schenck v. U.S.
  5. Congress could limit free speech in wartimes

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IV. Negotiating Peace
  1. European powers wanted revenge!
  2. League of Nations
  3. Article X
  4. Henry Cabot Lodge
  5. Reservationists
  6. Irreconcilables
  7. U.S. never ratifies T.O.V
  8. U.S. does not join League

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The Big Four
  • Wilson George

Wilson
Clemenceau
Orlando
George
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