1. Safe From Democracy
The US and World War I

2. American Liberal Internationalism

3. An Era of Intervention

4. Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy
Divided world into civilized & uncivilized nations
Negotiated settlement of Russo-Japanese War of 1905

5. I Took the Canal Zone Hay Paunceforte Treaty Clayton Bulworth Treaty
Nicaragua vs. Panama
The French Factor
The Columbian Factor
The Panama Revolution

8. Roosevelt Corollary Monroe Doctrine
US right to exercise an international policy power in Western Hemisphere
Britain, Italian, German Naval Blockade of Venezuela
American seizure of custom houses in Dominican Republic
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick

9. Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
Economic investment and loans from American banks rather than direct military intervention
Not successful in China
Sold retired battleships to Argentina
William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state, Grape Juice Diplomacy

10. Wilson and Mexico Moral imperialism
Francisco Madero overthrows Porfirio Diaz in Mexican Revolution 1911
Victoriano Huerta assassinated Madero & seizes power in 1913
Mexican Civil War: Wilson orders troops to Vera Cruz
Pancho Villa

12. America and the Great War

13. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

14. Europe 1914

15. Neutrality and Preparedness
Sinking of the Lusitania
German submarine warfare
Cash program to expand American army & navy

16. Road to War 1916 victory “He Kept Us Out of War” Peace without Victory
Zimmerman Telegram

17. Western Front

18. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Agenda for Peace Conference Following the War
Self determination for all nations
Freedom of seas
Free trade
Open diplomacy
Readjustment of colonial claims
League of nations

19. WWI at Home

20. Creation of unprecedented powers & increased presence in American’s everyday lives
Selective Service Act
War Industries Board
War Labor Board
Corporate and income tax increase
Liberty bonds

21. Propaganda War Disseminating Patriotism became Government Job
Committee on Public Information (CPI)

22. Coming of Women’s Suffrage
Most were opposed to American entry in War
Jeannette Rankin
National Women’s Party & Alice Paul
19th Amendment

23. Prohibition & 18th Amendment

24. Liberty in Wartime What is balance between security & freedom?
Espionage Act of 1917 and arrest of Eugene V. Debs
Coercive Patriotism: patriotism meant support for the government, the war and the American economic system

25. Who is an American?

26. The Race Problem Eugenics Americanization and Pluralism
Wartime Americanization
Assimilation

27. The Anti-German Crusade
Liberty Cabbage
Freedom Sandwich

28. Immigrant Act of 1917
Banned undesirables (idiots, feeble-minded persons, criminals, epileptics, insane persons, alcoholics, professional beggars, mentally or physically defective persons, polygamist, & anarchists
Barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate.
“Asiatic Barred Zone,” a region that included much of eastern Asia and the Pacific Islands from which people could not immigrate.

29. Color Line & Great Migration
Roosevelt: invited Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, but not in favor of black civil rights
Wilson: imposed segregation in federal depts.
Revival of Civil Rights with W. E. B. DuBois

30. Rise of Garveyism

31. 1919: Worldwide Revolutionary Upsurge

32. Red Scare Attorney General Mitchell Palmer & Palmer Raids
J. Edgar Hoover, director of Radical Division of Justice Department

33. Wilson at Versailles Some Wilson goals achieved
Versailles Treaty: harsh document guaranteeing future conflict
Impossible demands

34. Treaty Debate
Wilson’s self proclaimed finest legacy: League of Nations
Critics warned it’s deprive America of freedom of action
War to make democracy safe: failure

35. Europe in 1919