1. WWI
Major Issues of WWI

2. Causes of WWI - Assassination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28th, 1914.

3. Causes of WWI - Assassination

4. The Point of No Return: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Austria blamed Serbia for Ferdinand’s death and declared war on Serbia.
Germany pledged their support for Austria -Hungary. · example of Pan-German nationalism
Russia pledged their support for Serbia. · example of Pan-Slavic nationalism

5. The Point of No Return: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Germany declares war on Russia.
France pledges their support for Russia.
Germany declares war on France.
Germany invades Belgium on the way to France.
Great Britain supports Belgium and declares war on Germany.

6. Allied Powers:
Central Powers:
Germany
Great Britain
World War I
France
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Russia

7. CAUSES: America’s Entry into WWI
1. Many Americans have cultural ties with Britain and France.

8. CAUSES: America’s Entry into WWI
2. Reports of German atrocities in Belgium outrage Americans

9. CAUSES: America’s Entry into WWI
3. Germany continues its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, despite promises to stop.
* Sinking of the Lusitania

11. CAUSES: America’s Entry into WWI
4. Zimmerman Note, Germany offers Mexico chance to regain its lost territory.

13. Debating American entry
1. Isolationists: believed U.S. should isolate itself from foreign conflicts.

14. Debating American entry
2. Internationalists: believed U.S. should actively work for peace but not enter the war.

15. Debating American entry
3. Interventionists: believed the U.S. should intervene in the war on the side of the Allies, protect U.S. interests, and fulfill U.S. obligations

16. Selective Service Act
Military draft

17. Espionage Act
Crime to interfere in induction of soldiers or knowingly refuse the draft.

18. Sedition Act
Crime to speak out/write anything against the government and its war efforts.

19. The Great Migration
about 500,000 African Americans migrated north to work in industries.

21. Supporting the War
Form of patriotism
Victory gardens
Liberty bonds

24. Aftermath of WWI & Peace

25. Armistice
Marked end to the war
Oct by Germany

27. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Plan for peace
Included right to self-rule, free trade, free access to seas by all nations
**international peace-keeping body, an association of nations

28. Treaty of Versailles
1919
“Big Four”, reps from Great Britain, Italy, France, U.S.
Punish Germany:
Accept full blame for war
Pay $33 billion in reparations to Allies

29. League of Nations
Congress does not approve it and the U.S. is not there for the first meeting.