1. The League Fight

2. 1918 Midterm Election
Wilson personally campaigns to help pro-League Democrats
1916 Senate- 54 D/42 R
1916 House- 217D/ 215 R

3. Results
Senate- 49R/47D
House- 240R/ 192D

4. Plan B 1918 Wilson travels to Paris 1st President abroad
No Republicans in delegation

6. Treaty of Versailles Big Four- UK/Fr/US/It. Wilson gets 4 of 23 Points
Germany
Pays for war
Loses army/navy/air force
Loses land
Austria-Hungary
Split up along ethnic lines
Italy
Some minor territory
Japan
No racial equality

11. League of Nations
Goal:
End war forever
Settle disputes

12. American Reaction German-Americans Irish-Americans
Republicans- H. Cabot Lodge
Idealists
Conservatives
Article X

13. Plan C
Wilson crosses America defending the treaty
Suffers a stroke

14. Senate Votes
Nov. 1919
Yea- 55
Nay- 39

15. Seeing Red! 1917 Russian Revolution
1919 Communist Party of the USA formed (CPUSA)

16. Polar Bear Expedition 1918-1919 Allied invasion of Russia
1) Stop Allied supplies from going to Bolsheviks
2) Rescue Czech Legion
3) Reopen Eastern Front
4) Stop spread of Communism

17. Red Summer of 1919 Race Riots- 34 Cities Anarchist Bombings
Union Strikes- Seattle
May Day March
Boston Police Strike

19. A. Mitchell Palmer Attorney General Palmer Raids “The Fighting Quaker”
Attempted Assassination
Palmer Raids
10,000+ arrested
249 deported “Soviet Ark”

23. Spanish Influenza 1/3 of World Infected (500 Million)
3% of World Dies (50 Million +)
10% Mortality Rate

24. Origins
“Spanish” Flu
Originated in Kansas/ China/ or America

31. A Solemn Referendum Election of 1920 Republicans
Sen. Warren G. Harding (Oh)- Pres.
Gov. Calvin Coolidge (Ma)- VP

32. Democrats Wilson hoped for a third term Gov. James M. Cox (Oh)- Pres.
Ass. Sec. of Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt (NY)- VP

33. Campaign
Harding
“A Return to Normalcy”- Isolationism/ Nativism/ Small Gov’t
Front Porch Campaign
Hollywood/ Big Business
Pro-Women’s Rights
Infidelity Rumors
Black Rumors
Cox
Pro-League

34. Results
Harding- 404/60%
Cox- 127/ 34%
Debs- 0/ 3.4%