1. Chapter 11
The First World War

2. Section 1 World War 1 Begins
Causes of WW1
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Alliance System
Allies and Central Powers

3. An Assassination Leads to War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Fighting Starts
No mans land
Trench warfare

5. Americans Question Neutrality
Divided Loyalties
War Hits home
The British Blockade
German U-Boat Response
Lusitania
The 1916 Election

6. The United States Declares War
German Provocation
Zimmermann Notes
America Acts

7. Section 2 American Power Tips the Balance
America Mobilizes
Raising and Army
Selective Service Act
Mass Production

8. America Turns the Tide
Convoy system
Fighting in Europe

9. Fighting “Over There” New Weapons American Expeditionary Force
General John J. Pershing
New Weapons

10. The War Introduces New Hazards American Troops go on the Offensive
American War Hero
Alvin York
Conscientious objector
The Collapse of Germany
Armistice
Final Tolls

11. Section 3 The War at Home Congress Gives power to Wilson
War Industries Board
Bernard M. Baruch

12. War Economy
Food Administration

13. Selling the War War Financing Committee on Public Information
Propaganda
George Creel

14. Attacks on Civil Liberties Increase
Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
Espionage and Sedition Acts

15. The War Encourages Social Change
African Americans and the War
The Great Migration
Woman in the War
The Flu Epidemic

16. Section 4: Wilson Fights for Peace
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Three Groups: 1. 2. 3.
Big Four Meet – Reject Plan
Exception –

17. Treaty of Versailles New Nations - Sanctions against Germany: 1. 2. 3.4. 5.

18. Opposition to the Treaty Debate over the League of Nations
Weaknesses of Treaty 1. 2. 3.
Opposition to the Treaty
Debate over the League of Nations
U.S. never joins
Legacy of the War
Foundation set for WWII
Isolationism