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What events led up to the U.S. entering WWI? Review! What events led up to the U.S. entering WWI? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj43X-VBEPE&index=1&list=PLfSJcPVp3MWxRiWC7rI-cF2-JSzYbwwah

1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures Militarism… Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of £s. 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1914 94 130 154 268 289 398 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures France 10% Britain 13% Russia 39% Germany 73%

Imperialism

Nationalism

VS. Allied Powers: Central Powers: Great Britain Germany Austria- Hungary France VS. Ottoman Empire Russia Italy Bulgaria

WWI US Homefront

Unemployment disappears Ration (limit) amount of food/fuel per person Economic Impact War Industries Board Oversaw production in factories/on farms (weapons, food, uniforms) Production inc 20% Unemployment disappears Ration (limit) amount of food/fuel per person a. Prohibition: 18th Amendment: alcohol made illegal because grain needed to feed soldiers

Economic Impact Mass production: factories need to become more efficient to produce for the war Gov’t involves itself MORE with production, monitored how crops were transported on trains, encourage farmers to produce more, set prices Free enterprise (economic freedom) was reduced to meet need of the war, heavily regulated Industries forced to change what they made to provide for soldiers (dress makers > uniforms)

Women’s Roles Change: Men away at war, women enter the workforce Social Impact Women’s Roles Change: Men away at war, women enter the workforce Worked on railroads, in factories, telegraph operations, and other jobs typically done by men Showing American society their economic and political worth transforms the social landscape…

Racial tensions prevail Social Impact New Job opportunities Great Migration - 500,000 African Americans move North to work in factories 13,000 women join the Navy Racial tensions prevail Army remains segregated Race riots in the North over competition for jobs

African-Americans on a Troop Ship Headed for France

Political Impact Espionage Act: illegal to interfere with foreign relations (SPYING!) Dumba Affair “The Duplicity (dishonesty) of Dumba and His Dupe (fool) ”

Communists Ex.) The Soviet Union Complete government control Ultimate goal = utopian society with no need for gov’t … this is the closest anyone came to “communism” Extreme form of socialism

Socialists Socialism = the government owns the basic means of production, determines the use of resources, distributes the products and wages, and provides social services such as education, health care, and welfare Ex.) Sweden Govt organizes / controls more social programs in order to ensure that all have equal access = higher taxes to pay for all programs

Eugene V. Debs Eugene V Debs = American union leader founder of Industrial Workers of the World (socialist labor union) arrested for anti-war speech Outspoken Socialist (leftist): social ownership and democratic control of the means of production; production is for NEED, not profit. (communism is extreme form of socialism) Red Scare: fear of communism…Communist revolution in Russia had Americans scared of it taking over the U.S.

Eugene V. Debs “To hell with war, to hell with all who crave it. When masters rule the world no more, we’ll needs no wars to save it.” Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most – that is, those who work the hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial task, have the least

Immigration Act of 1917 Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, the first legislation to dramatically limit immigration into the U.S. It introduced rulings that singled out specific countries and ethnicities

3. 19th Amendment = women’s suffrage Political Impact 3. 19th Amendment = women’s suffrage Carrie Chapman Catt = President of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) State by state to get the vote Alice Paul = President of National Women’s Party (NWP) Congressional Amendment

Iron Jawed Angels Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyB3tV9kU0 Women’s Suffrage Crash Course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGEMscZE5dY Just for fun  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6qKVBciAw&list=PLfSJcPVp3MWxRiWC7rI-cF2-JSzYbwwah&index=16