The United States in a World at War, Chapter 20

Inherited Commitments and New Directions, 1913 to 1917 Anti-Imperialism, Intervention, and Arbitration –Haiti –Dominican Republic, 1916 –Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan

Wilson and the Mexican Revolution –Wilson’s expectations for a “constitutional government” –Presented a new moral dimension to US diplomatic recognition –Pancho Villa Inherited Commitments and New Directions, 1913 to 1917

The United States in a World at War, The Great War in Europe –Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand American Neutrality –Wilson’s hopes for peace unrealistic Neutral Rights and German U-Boats –Lusitania

The Election of 1916 The Decision for War –Zimmerman telegram –Wilson asked Congress for declaration April 2, 1917 The United States in a World at War,

The Home Front Mobilizing the Economy –War Industries Board –National War Labor Board –U.S. Food Administration A crucial US contribution to the Allied victory Mobilizing Public Opinion –Committee on Public Information (CPI)

Civil Liberties in Time of War –German Americans suffered the most –Espionage and Sedition Acts The Great Migration and White Reactions –Wartime racial conflicts Also erupted in North The Home Front

Americans “Over There” Mobilizing for Battle –Selective Service Act (1917) Americans “Over There” –Maximize influence on peacemaking

Wilson and the Peace Conference Bolshevism, the Secret Treaties, and the Fourteen Points The World in 1919 –Peace conference –Civil War in Russia

Wilson at Versailles –Big Four –League of Nations –War Guilt clause The Senate and the Treaty –Senate split into 3 groups –Wilson took his case to the people –US did not join League Wilson and the Peace Conference

Legacies of the Great War –Ultimately produced economic and political instability in much of Europe

America in the Aftermath of War, November November 1920 HCL and Strikes –Inflation –Unions Red Scare –Palmer Raids

Race Riots and Lynching –Mobs in southern states lynched returning soldiers still in uniform –Ku Klux Klan became powerful again America in the Aftermath of War, November November 1920

Amending the Constitution: Prohibition and Women’s Suffrage –Anti-Saloon League –19 th Amendment The Election of 1920 –Harding won a Republican landslide America in the Aftermath of War, November November 1920