Week+6

Chapter 22 America and The Great War

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=**Wilson**=



=__//**America’s Direct Participation WWI**//__=

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American Military Build-up







= Trench warfare = Write down one thing about this film that was interesting to you?

media type="custom" key="8589534" Discuss and compare your film observation with a neighbor; in what way was your observation different from your neighbors? Be ready to share your observation with the class.

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=Anti German-American sentiment 1917 Illinois=





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=Next Class meeting: Fighting the War to End All Wars=

Alvin York

Conscientious Objectors

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=**Versailles**= =**Famine Relief**= = = =**The League of Nations**= = = =**//Red Scare//**= = = =**The Russian Revolution**= = = = = =**American decision to intervene**= = = = = =**The Socialist movement**= = = = = =**The Second International**= = = = = =**Bolsheviks**= = = =**Eastern front**= = = = = =**First successes**= = = = = =**Major all-American offensive**= = = =**Versailles peace negations**= = = =**Destructiveness**= = = =**The Inquiry**= = = =**Armistice**= = = =**Fourteen Points**= = = =**German responsibility**= = = =**German negotiators**= = = = = =**German republic**= = = =**Turbulent events**= = = =**Palmer Raids**= = = =**American Socialism**= = = =**The Third International**=

= I. The United States undertook a more active foreign policy after 1898. =
 * = The Spanish-American War gave the United States a powerful presence in the Caribbean and the Philippines. =
 * = American forces intervened in the Mexican revolutionary wars, killing 200 Mexicans in Vera Cruz in 1914. =

= II. President Woodrow Wilson promised to keep America out of the First World War, but circumstances forced him to join the war directly in 1917. = = III. American participation in the war became inevitable early in 1917 and had a decisive effect on the war’s outcome. = =// Four-minute men //, organized by George Creel’s Committee of Public Information, gave patriotic fund raising speeches and urged young men to enlist. =
 * = Britain, France, Italy, and Russia fought against an alliance of German, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Turkey. =
 * = Germany, dominant partner of the Central Powers, faced the disadvantage of a two-front war. =
 * = President Wilson urged Americans to be neutral in thought and deed. =
 * = Britain and France enjoyed naval supremacy and were able to divert American ships bound for Germany into their own ports. They paid for trade goods. =
 * = The //Lusitania// incident (1915) sharpened pro-British, anti-German feeling in America. =
 * = When British dollar reserves were exhausted, American bankers asked the president to extend loans or credits to Britain. =
 * = President Wilson won reelection under the slogan “He kept us out of war”. =
 * = Germany decided on unrestricted submarine warfare against America, whose aid to Britain and France was already immense. =
 * = America’s small army expanded rapidly. =
 * = Citizens, in general, and clergy, in particular, became enthusiastic for war. =
 * = Congress passed legislation to restrict opponents of the war. =
 * = Clergy preached blood-curdling pro-war sermons. =
 * = State governments and vigilante groups tried to destroy all German vestiges in America. =