1. World War I At Home & Abroad

3. The Allies/Triple Entente
Main Alliances
The Allies/Triple Entente
The Central Powers
France
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

4. WWI as the First “Total War”
60 million fought
8.5 million died in battle
21 million wounded
8 million civilians killed

5. How War in Europe Start?

6. Web of Alliances: Central Powers formed in 1882
Austro-Hungarian Empire expanded into Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany wanted to expand
Franz Ferdinand and wife assassinated in Sarajevo, June 18, 1914

7. U.S. Neutrality? Wilson’s Anglophilia
Economic ties between U.S. and Great Britain
U.S. Bank Loans: JP Morgan loaned $500 million to Allies
By 1917: $2.3 billion loaned to Allies vs. $27 million loaned to Germany

8. What Changed U.S. Neutrality?
Sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats, May 7, 1915

9. Trench Warfare

10. Machine Gun
Gas Mask
German U-boat

11. U.S. Enters the War
“Zimmerman Telegram” from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman to Germany’s Ambassador to Mexico
April 2, 1917: Congress voted for war

12. “Over There,” 1917

13. Mobilizing at Home, 1917
April 1917: U.S. unprepared with only 120,000 in Army and 80,000 in National Guard
May 1917: Selective Service Act for men 21-31, later 18-45, to register for draft
Soldiers & Sex Education
Segregated military

14. Organizing the Economy for War
War Industries Board mobilized economy
Fuel Administration introduced Daylight Savings
Food Administration and Herbert Hoover rationed wheat, meat, and sugar

16. Promoting the War Advertisements & Liberty Loans
Committee on Public Information led wartime propaganda
Immigrants targeted by CPI

18. Treaty of Versailles, June 1919
Germany disarmed & stripped of its colonies
Forced to admit sole blame for WWI
Reparation payment of $5 billion
Germany lost 1/10 of its population and 1/8 of its Territory

19. The Fight Over the League of Nations
February 1919, 39 Republican Senators rejected League of Nations
Wilson’s speaking tour of 37 speeches in 22 days