1. What does the yellow represent? Pink? Blue? Allied Axis Neutral Great Britain France Spain Austria-Hungary Russia Germany Norway Sweden Ottoman Empire Italy Find the following countries: Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

2. POLL - Which side do you favor? In your notebooks or on binder paper… Create a bulleted list to show support for each of the following positions: Do you think the US has a global responsibility to come to the aid of warring nations? Do you think they should remain neutral?

3. Observe the following newspaper headlines and pictures. What would your reaction be upon seeing them? Do you think the people in 1914 felt the same way?

5. Woodrow Wilson Steers Toward Justice 1914 Political Cartoon On the Eve of WWI: While Avoiding both War & Intervention The Dallas Morning News March, 1914

6. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA Huge Loss of Life

7. THE AMERICAN NATION went to war in April, 1917. Five months later Kansas City became the first community to feel the real meaning of that act when Lt. Will Fitzsimons was killed - America's first war zone fatality.

8. German Soldier Writes California Mother on Death of her Son The Nashville Tennesseean May 2, 1919

9. More than 1/3 of the nations 92 million people were first or second generation immigrants who still felt ties to their old countries. About ¼ of these were Germans, but most Americans favored the Allies Some Americans felt personally involved, why? NOTES:

10. In the end, America declares neutrality. Why would we do this? Nations business interest – trade and investments with both sides

11. TWO MOVEMENTS EMERGED Preparedness Movement As much as business leaders wanted to remain neutral, they also felt like the US should still prepare for war “just in case” President Wilson agreed, he set up patriotic education and national sentiment training camps Peace Movement Consisted of former populists, some progressives, social reformers, and women Women did a lot of marches and campaigning for peace

12. Covering the War "In the Trial of the Reapers." New York Times, December 10, 1916 "The Stars and Stripes Flying in the Ancient Coliseum at Rome on the Occasion of Italy's Rejoicing Over the Entry of the United States into the War." New York Times, August 12, 1917 Read the article: