1. Identify:
Articles of Confederation

2. Identify:
Common Sense

3. Chapter 30
The War to End War

4. Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico
Chaos in Mexico in early 1900s
: 1 million+ immigrants to US from Mexico
General Victoriano Huerta seizes control in 1913, Wilson does not support him

5. Moral Diplomacy Wilson sells weapons to rebels against Huerta
Tampico Incident
ABC Powers
President Carranza

6. Pancho Villa

7. Causes of World War I
Jigsaw

8. Alliances

9. Assassination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Austria-Hungary)

12. Neutrality
Economic ties with the Allies

13. Economics American recession
$2.3 billion selling to Allies when “neutral”
Germany mad

14. Election of 1916
Woodrow Wilson (d)
“He kept us out of war”

15. US Entry into WWI German submarine warfare Zimmerman Note
Bolshevik Revolution

16. Submarine Warfare
Jan 31, 1917: Germany announced unrestricted submarine warfare on all ships
Hoped this would take Britain out of the war before America joined
Sussex Pledge
Lusitania

17. Zimmerman Note
German telegram: proposed a secret alliance b/w Germany and Mexico
Leaked to Americans

19. Bolshevik Revolution “fighting for democracy”
Russian Czar is overthrown

20. April 2, 1917 Wilson asks Congress for a war declaration
“a war to end war”
“make the world safe for democracy”

21. Wilson’s 14 Points
Address to Congress, WWI being fought for a moral cause
1. Proposal to abolish secret treaties
2. Freedom of the seas
3. Removal of economic barriers b/w countries
4. Reduction of militaries
5. Adjustment of colonial claims
14. League of Nations

22. Wilson primary source activity

23. American Life during the War
Committee on Public Information
George Creel
Propaganda

27. Enforcing loyalty 8 million German-Americans in US
Hysterical hatred of Germans

28. Espionage Act, 1917
Illegal to support US enemies

29. Sedition Act, 1918 Illegal to speak out against the government
Eugene Debs imprisoned

30. Schenck vs. US

31. Law and Order: US History

32. Schenck v. US Landmark Supreme Court case
Charles Schenck, Secretary of Socialist Party
Protested the draft during WWI
Arrested for violating the Espionage Act
Appealed to the Supreme Court citing First Amendment

33. Instructions Examine your folder of evidence
Decide Schenck’s verdict (guilty or innocent?)
Cite at least 3 pieces of evidence supporting your verdict
Present verdict to the class

34. Wartime Economy
Wilson increased size of army, created shipbuilding program
War Industries Board- 1918

35. Workers in Wartime Strike discouraged- draft unemployed males
National War Labor Board
AFL- supported war
IWW- did not

36. 1919 Steelworkers strike 250,000 steelworkers went on strike
Replaced by 30,000 African Americans
Hurt unions
“Great Migration” race riots

37. Women’s Suffrage National Women’s Party: anti-war
National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA): supported war
Women worked jobs left behind during war

42. 1920
19th Amendment: women get the right to vote!

43. Forging a War Economy Food Administration- Herbert Hoover
“wheatless Wednesdays”
“meatless Tuesdays”
No ration cards
Congress restricted the use of food to make alcohol

44. 1919
18th Amendment: Prohibition, “production, transportation, and sale” of alcohol illegal

45. “Doughboys” Draft Act- 1917 Males between 18 and 45 had to register
Could not purchase exemption or send a replacement
Women and African Americans

46. Fighting in France
Bolshevik Revolution- pulled Russia out of war

47. American Expeditionary Force
American troops sent as replacements for Allied Powers
France, Belgium, Italy, and Russia

48. 1918
Allies unite
30,000 American sent to battle Germans on the “western front”
Second Battle of the Marne: beginning of German withdrawal
Germany surrenders on November 11, 1918

51. American War Contributions
Food, munitions, oil, manpower
2 major battles: St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne
German demoralization

52. Peace
Wilson decides to go to Europe to help negotiate a peace treaty

53. The “Big Four” US: Woodrow Wilson Italy: Vittorio Orlando 
Britain: David Lloyd George
France: Georges Clemenceau 

54. Treaty of Versailles
Land gets shuffled around

56. League of Nations Way to avoid another world war
Wilson compromised on his other 14 points in order to ensure the creation of the L of N

57. Treaty of Versailles Forced on Germany Germany had to:
Assume all responsibility for war
Assume responsibility for war debts
Demilitarize

58. Treaty in America Lots of Americans opposed the League of Nations
Wilson campaigns across America to get it passed
Suffers a stroke

59. Opposition in Congress
Henry Cabot Lodge
Article X
14 Reservations
Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles twice

61. Election of 1920
Warren Harding (R)
James M. Cox (D)

62. Harding wins
Treaty/League of Nations dies

63. Effects of WWI America reverts to isolationism
Germany is ruined, angry