1. Warm Up 3/9
1) Name two push factors and two pull factors for moving out West in the late 1800s.
2) What were the problems workers faced in the late 1800 early 1900s?
3) Why did the Socialist movement come about during the Progressive Era?
4) Create a KWL chart in your notes and fill in the Know and Want to Know about World War I.

2. WWI
Focus Question: What were the causes of WWI and how did America react to the start of a global war?

3. (Race to build bigger and better armies & navies)
Causes of the War
M- Militarism
(Race to build bigger and better armies & navies)

4. A- Alliance System
Secret treaties between countries

5. (Extreme Patriotism, Idea one ethnic group is better than the rest!)
Causes of the War
N- Nationalism
(Extreme Patriotism, Idea one ethnic group is better than the rest!)

6. I-Imperialism
Economic competition, race for colonies

7. **THE SPARK** A- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne killed in Serbia

8. WWI Alliances Allied Powers England France Russia (leaves 1917)
U.S.A. (enters 1917)
Central Powers
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)

10. Video Clip
WWI Begins
Answer: Why is it called the Great War?

11. The Domino Effect June 14: Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated
July 28: A-H declares war on Serbia
July 31: Russia sends troops to aid Serbia
Aug 1: Germany declares war on Russia
Aug 3: Germany declares war on France & invades neutral Belgium.
Aug 4: Great Britain declares war on Germany

12. The Schlieffen Plan
Avoid fighting a war with Russia and France at the same time. Plan fails when France does not fall quickly

13. The Great War Begins Trench Warfare No Man’s Land Won very little land
Armies fight using system of ditches
No Man’s Land
Area between trenches where soldiers were killed
Won very little land
Hold Russia, attack Fr. fast and then hit Russia
Dug in creating vast system of trenches
Had a front line, support and reserve trenches
60K casualties for Brits during first day of Somme
1.2 million dead but only 7 miles of land changed hands

14. Wilson Declares American Neutrality
Why did the US Refuse to get involved in the beginning?
Territory not directly affected
U.S. had cultural and economic ties with both sides divided loyalties
Pacifists: against all war
Wilson wins re-election in 1916 with slogan “He kept us out of War!”

15. Reasons the US Enters the War
1. Zimmerman Note (Telegram)
Germany sends a telegram to Mexico proposing an alliance

16. 2. Russia: Bolshevik Revolution Russia becomes Communist!
Reasons the U.S. Enters
2. Russia: Bolshevik Revolution
Russia becomes Communist!
When Russia leaves the War, America is more likely to enter

17. Reasons the US Enters the War
3. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
German war-time policy of using U-boats to sink any ship in Allied territory without warning
May 1915: British passenger ship, Lusitania, is sunk Americans killed
“There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right” – Wilson in reaction to Lusitania

18. April 6, 1917: US Declares War
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.” -Woodrow Wilson

19. 1917 – Selective Service Act
24,000,000 men registered for the draft by the end of 1918.
4,800,000 men served in WW1 (2,000,000 saw active combat).
400,000 African-America were put in segregated units. Most were put in non-combat duties.
15,000 Native-Americans served as scouts, messengers, and snipers in non-segregated units.