1. 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?

2. 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

3. 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?

4. Observe the following newspaper headlines and pictures.

5. Woodrow Wilson Steers Toward Justice
1914 Political Cartoon
On the Eve of WWI: While Avoiding both War & Intervention
The Dallas Morning News
March, 1914
                                           

7. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA Huge Loss of Life

8. Has your opinion changed?
What influenced your decision the most?

9. 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

10. In the end, America declares neutrality. Why would we do this?
Nations business interest – trade and investments with both sides

11. 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

12. DEBATE
Neutral or Involved?

13. Can you fill-in the notes?