RECAP: Sit with a partner and answer the following. What are the tensions going on in the WORLD leading up to WWI? What was the shot heard round the world that started the war? What is the United States’ position right now and why?
What does the yellow represent? Pink? Blue? Norway Sweden Great Britain Russia Germany Austria-Hungary France Italy Spain Ottoman Empire Allied Axis Neutral What does the yellow represent? Pink? Blue? Find the following countries: Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
DEBATE In your notebooks or on binder paper… Create a bulleted list to show support for each of the following positions: The US has a global responsibility to come to the aid of warring nations. The United States should remain neutral. POLL - Which side do you favor?
Observe the following newspaper headlines and pictures.
Woodrow Wilson Steers Toward Justice 1914 Political Cartoon On the Eve of WWI: While Avoiding both War & Intervention The Dallas Morning News March, 1914
SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA Huge Loss of Life
Has your opinion changed? What influenced your decision the most?
Some Americans felt personally involved, why? NOTES: Some Americans felt personally involved, why? More than 1/3 of the nations 92 million people were first or second generation immigrants who still felt ties to their old countries. About ¼ of these were Germans, but most Americans favored the Allies
In the end, America declares neutrality. Why would we do this? Nations business interest – trade and investments with both sides
TWO MOVEMENTS EMERGED Preparedness Movement As much as business leaders wanted to remain neutral, they also felt like the US should still prepare for war “just in case” President Wilson agreed, he set up patriotic education and national sentiment training camps Peace Movement Consisted of former populists, some progressives, social reformers, and women Women did a lot of marches and campaigning for peace
DEBATE Neutral or Involved?
Can you fill-in the notes?