1. World War I

2. Public Opinion

3. Propaganda

4. Opposition to War

5. Sinking of the Lusitania May 1915

6. American Conflict with Germany

7. The Arabic and Sussex Pledges

9. “He Kept Us Out of War”

10. Election of 1916

11. “Peace without Victory”

12. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

13. Jan 1917
Zimmerman
Note
- Promised…

14. "On the first of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted. In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America.
If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The details are left to you for settlement...."

15. Russian Revolution
March Revolution…
October Revolution…

16. “The world must be made safe for Democracy”
April 6, 1917

17. Mobilization - Industry and Labor
Bernard Baruch
Herbert Hoover

18. Victory Gardens

20. Mobilization - Financial

21. Mobilization – Public Opinion
George Creel – Committee on Public Information

23. Espionage and Sedition Acts

24. Schenck v. United States
1919
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“clear and present danger”

25. Selective Service Act (1917)

26. African Americans

27. American Expeditionary Force
General John J.
“BlackJack”
Pershing

28. Alvin C. York
Pall Mall, TN
Most celebrated
hero of the war

29. “Doughboys”
“Yanks”
“OVER THERE”

30. Hindenburg Line

31. Chateau-Thierry

32. Belleau Wood

33. American 30th Infantry Division Breaching the Hindenburg Line

34. November 11, 1918 – 11 am

35. Effects on American Society
Women…
Mexicans & African Americans …

36. Race Riots

37. The Fourteen Points

38. Treaty of Versailles

39. “Big Four”

40. Midterm Elections
Henry Cabot Lodge

41. The Senate Rejects the Treaty

42. Demobilization

43. Spanish Influenza

44. Red Scare

45. Labor Unrest
U.S. Steel