1. The Great War

2. European Background
Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

3. European Background Balkans Powder keg Alliances in Europe
Ottoman Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
German Empire
Alliances in Europe
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Modern Trench Warfare

4. European Background

5. U.S. Response President Wilson’s Neutrality
Continued trade and financing of warring nations
Why was neutrality important?
Positive economic impact on the U.S.
“We are all making more money out of this war than the average human being ought to.”
- A Steel Executive

6. U.S. Response Issues of International Law
Germany and submarine warfare
Britain and blockade of non-contraband goods
Sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915
Zimmerman Telegram, 1917
Bolshevik Revolution

8. U.S. Response Wilson wins the 1916 Presidential election
“He kept us out of war”

9. U.S. Response
Wilson asks Congress for a declaration of war to “make the world safe for democracy” He later states: “Think of what it was they were applauding. My message of today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.”

10. The Homefront Opposition to the war Selective Service Act, 1917
Eugene V. Debs, “Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses.”
Espionage Act (1917), Sedition Act (1918)
Selective Service Act, 1917
Able-bodied men between

11. The Homefront Increased demand for labor
African American migration to the north
National War Labor Board
Propaganda & Anti-German sentiment
Hollywood films & Songs produced
Images of bigotry & hysteria
“Liberty cabbage”

12. “Over There”
Johnny[2], get your gun, get your gun, get your gun. Take it on the run, on the run, on the run. Hear them calling you and me, Every Son of Liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today. Make your Daddy glad to have had such a lad. Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line.
Johnny, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Johnny, show the "Hun"[3] you're a son-of-a-gun. Hoist the flag and let her fly. Yankee Doodle[4] do or die. Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit. Yankee[5] to the ranks from the towns and the tanks.[6] Make your Mother proud of you And the old red-white-and-blue[7]
Chorus
Over there, over there, Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming The drums rum-tumming everywhere. So prepare, say a prayer, Send the word, send the word to beware - We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over, over there.

13. America at War “Doughboys” Role of Women in the war
African Americans in WWI
Camp Logan Riots, 1917
War in the air
Issues of sex & STDs

14. The Great War Key Terms: Vladimir Lenin, Trench Warfare, Lusitania,
Zimmerman Telegram, Espionage Act, Selective Service Act,
Camp Logan Riot