1. Effects of World War I

2. The Accuser

3. Map of Europe Germany, Austria Hungary loses territory
Creation of new states
Poland
Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Middle Eastern States in Asia

4. Changes in Europe

5. Changes in the Middle East

6. 14 Point v. Treaty of Versailles
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7. Problems at Home Soldiers Disillusionment
Election of 1918-Republican Congress, Democratic President
Henry Cabot Lodge
14 Reservations
Article X
Who declares war?
Wilson has a stroke

8. America as a World Power
Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
US does not join League of Nations
England ( 4 billion) and France (3 billion) are in debt to the United States
Wilson insisted on payment in full from Britain
Progressivism becomes unpopular
Business wants to return to Industrial Age policies
No longer wanted to be involved in foreign entanglements-Isolationism

9. The Accuser

10. Economy Difficulty in converting from war economy to consumer economy
Increasing inflation killed market for consumer goods
GNP dropped 10 % from
100,000 business went bankrupt
5 million Americans lost their jobs

11. Labor Unrest
Veterans return to work with poor working conditions and poor purchasing power due to inflation
Employers aggravated resentment by using the end of war to rescind benefits they were forced to give during war-Refused to recognize unions
In 1919, unprecedented wave of strikes
Walkout of shipyard workers in Seattle Washington evolved into a general strike that put city in standstill

12. Red Scare
Labor unrest brought forth overall resentment toward labor unions and any “left wing” philosophy
Russian Revolution and Communist interest in Europe made American anxious toward Eastern European Immigrants
Big Business used propaganda as well as business friendly administration to condemn communist ideology and “infiltration”
FBI-J Edgar Hoover and A Palmer Mitchell
Sacco-Vanzetti

13. African Americans
African Americans fought in the war in segregated units.
Received better treatment overseas than at home.
Great migration-Black are leaving the South and sharecropping to work in industrial jobs up north and out west
Cities like Chicago and Detroit erupt in violence

14. African Americans-Great Migration-1917

15. Prohibition WWI aided the push toward prohibition
19 states by 1917
Condemned Germans (brewers and distillers)
Volstead Act over Wilson’s veto
18 amendment passed in Jan 1919
“The Noble Experiment”
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16. The Tide Turns for Suffrage
Jeanette Rankin was first women elected to the House of Representatives 1916
Alice Paul led demonstrations in front of the White House during WWI-unpopular
Arrested, went on hunger strikes, force fed
January 1918-Wilson announces support for the Anthony Amendment
Support in World War I
Women were able to enlist in the military for the first time
Nurses, clerical jobs, domestic workers
19th Amendment passed by exactly 2/3 vote of Congress
State Legislatures ratify 19th Amendment August 26, 1920