United States and World War I

1. United States and World War I APUSH

2. Verse Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Take it on the run, on the run, on the run, Hear them calling you and me, Ev'ry son of liberty. Hurry right away, no delay, go today, Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad, Tell your sweetheart not to pine, To be proud her boy's in line. Chorus Over there over there Send the word, send the word over there That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming ev'rywhere So prepare say a pray'r Send the word, send the word to beware We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over over there! Verse Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, Johnnie show the Hun you're a son of a gun, Hoist the flag and let her fly, Yankee Doodle do or die. Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit, Yankees to the ranks from the towns and the tanks, Make your mother proud of you And the old Red White and Blue. Over There By George M. Cohan

3. Essay Question Choice 2 • Mobilization for WWI altered the lives of millions of civilians. Describe the impact on the American society to three of the following: • Women and the war effort (military, munitions manufacturing) • Black Americans (Great Migration, push pull factors) • Curbing dissent (Civil Liberties- Espionage Act- Sedition Act) • Paying for the war (Income, Corporate, excise taxes, War Bonds, Loans) • Fuel and food administration (Food Administration, Wheat, sugar, meat)

4. “The most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth.” Ernest Hemmingway • “Make the world safe for democracy.“ Woodrow Wilson

5. The First World War Problems of neutrality Submarines Economic ties Psychological and ethnic ties Preparedness and pacifism Mobilization Fighting the war Financing the war War boards Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties Wilson's Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles Ratification fight Postwar demobilization Red scare Labor strife Stuff You Need to Know

6. How did the United States Participate in WWI before we actually started fighting? • How did the US get involved in WWI? • Whose side was the US on? • Identify: The Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram- • What is Unlimited Submarine Warfare and how did it push Americans into war? • When the US finally entered the war, how did the Government organize for the war? (be specific) • What role did money play in the decision for the US to enter the War? • How did the American Government try to control Public Opinion about the war? • How did African Americans status in America change due to the war? • What did Wilson want Americans to do in order to insure no other World War would start again? • How did the American Republicans respond to Wilson’s peace plan? • Identify the 14 points- what parts did the US Senate disagree with?

7. World War I 1914-1919 • Secret Alliances- • (Triple Alliance/Triple Entente) • Rivalries-Empires • Militarism/ “Arms Race” • Revenge- Franco-Prussia War (1971) • Nationalist movement touches off a giant war (Serbia- the Black Hand Gavrillo Princip)

8. Pre World War I MapInteractive Map of War

9. Americans want to keep out of War • Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916 on the platform that • “He Kept Us Out of War!” • In 1917, however, Wilson sought a declaration of war. • Citing “Freedom of the seas.” • A “War to Make the World Safe for Democracy”

10. Woodrow Wilson 1912-1919 • Democrat (Progressive) • PHD-Professor then President of Princeton- Political Science • Governor of New Jersey • Want foreign policy to shape morality in the World. • Very religious • Committed to Peace in the world.

11. Moral or Missionary Diplomacy • Wilson, “It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.” • Hoped to change relations with Latin America- didn’t like the “Big Stick” diplomacy- • Wanted to restore Latin American Confidence in the US • American Economic Expansion with American Democracy, and Christianity, to civilize the world. • Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan (Christian, Pacifist- reflected the Moral/Missionary vision)

12. “Missionary” Diplomacy • Wilson saw American influence in the world as a moral crusade- • Wanted to help create a “New World Order” guided by fair play and cooperation • Wanted to spread democracy and hope to less fortunate lands • Pledged, “The United States would never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.”

13. Wilson and Morality • “Americans are meant to carry liberty and justice and the principles of humanity wherever… convert them to principles of America.” • “America must use it’s enormous moral and material power to create a new order.”

14. 1. How did the United States Participate in WWI before we actually started fighting? • American “Neutrality” “He Kept Us Out of War!” • Most Americans did not want to get involved in the War • Wilson didn’t want war but didn’t want Brits to lose • Anglo-Americans pro-Allies (Brits) • Irish Americans (4.5 million) were Anti-British and pro-German (1916, Easter Rising, Irish will use German Weapons to attack British in Dublin) • German Americans pro-German (8 million) • American Industrialists- were making millions on war goods

15. American “Neutrality” Wilson said, A German victory would be “destructive to American ideals.”

16. 2. How did the US get involved in WWI? • Economics (we loaned a ton to Allies and couldn’t afford to have them lose) • Propaganda • Unrestricted Submarine Warfare • Lusitania • Zimmerman Telegram

17. Economic Ties=Tacit Neutrality • U. S. Bankers • Immediately after the War bogged down into stalemate, the Allies sought to build their armies.  They needed money and material to do it.  They also needed supplies in large quantities.  What they couldn't produce they bought from the United States and they bought on credit from U. S. Banks.    • Trade with Germany  • 1914 = $169,000,000 • 1916 = $1,158,000 • 1917 $27 million in credit • Trade with Allies • 1914 = $824,000,000 • 1916 = $3,214,000,000 • 1917 = $2.3 billion in credit • When the War looked bad for the Allies the bankers became worried that they might lose their money if the Allies lost the War and started to pressure the United States government to get more involved.

18. Sinking of the Lusitania May 1915 • Wilson wants to maintain neutrality but also cited the necessity to maintain “freedom of the seas” • Causes Americans to become more hostile to Germans

19. Effect of Lusitania • Wilson protests and demands German apology, reparations, commitment to stop attacking passenger vessels • Germans comply for time being • Americans still trade with Allies and Germans • Wilson desires “Peace and Preparedness” begins to prepare for war with appropriations

20. Election of 1916 • Wilson playing the both sides • Preparedness and Peace • Beats the Republican Hughes • Very close race • 277-254 electoral votes • 9.1 mill- 8.5 mill pop votes

21. PropagandaGrows

23. Zimmerman Telegram • January 1917 • German diplomat suggests to Mexico • Alliance- • If US enters the war against Germany • Mexico declares war on US and if Germany and US win, Mexico will receive Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico • Telegram is leaked to papers • Outrages many Americans = more support for entering war

27. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare • 1917 Germany is getting desperate • Wants to force British negotiated peace or victory • Announces new policy of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare= All ships going to Allied countries possible targets. • Germans thought this might cause US to enter war, but thought war would end before they could mobilize.

28. Video of Submarine

29. Wilson Supports War • Wilson- Very pro-British- saw the war concerning the survival of democracy. • US Bankers and industrialists supported entrance into war • Wilson wanted to see a New World Order emerge • He cited the “Freedom of the seas” • The American cause was “to vindicate the principles of peace and justice…The world must be made safe for democracy • Asks Congress for a Declaration of War

30. 3. Whose side was the US on?Congress Vote • April 1917 • Senate 92-6 • House 473-50 • US is at war against Germany

31. Financing the War Raised Income Taxes Corporate Taxes Loans War Bonds $24 Billion- cost of war $11 Billion in war loans War boards organize production War Industries Board (WIB) Huge bureaucracy Manages war time economy Food Administration Herbert Hoover Managed food supply Controlling Wheat, Meat, Sugar Railroad Board Fuel Administration Shipping Board (Merchant Ships) National War Labor Board 6. When the US finally entered the war, how did the Government organize for the war? (be specific)Mobilization

32. Prohibition and the war • War industries board WIB - huge bureaucracy • Food Administration- headed by Herbert Hoover • Wanted to limit private consumption of goods that could be used for the war effort such as: wheat, grains, and sugar so that it could be used for the war effort • 18th Amendment proposed- outlaw the making of alcohol Volstead Act- federal legislation that enforces the 18th amendment

33. 8. How did the American Government try to control Public Opinion about the war?Shaping Public Opinion • In order to mobilize support for the War • Committee Public Information • The American Government’s propaganda arm • Created to produce hatred for Germans and support for the war effort

34. Civil Liberties • US has a history of limiting civil liberties, (liberties of free speech, suspending Habeas Corpus) • John Adams 1798- Alien Sedition Acts • Lincoln- Civil War- suspends Habeas Corpus • World War I Wilson pushes Sedition Acts (limits freedom of speech) • Web site on suspension of civil liberties • Espionage and Sedition Acts

35. Three Act “Play” • Alien Act 1798- Adams government, deport enemy aliens • Espionage Act 1917 = allows for fines and prison for obstruction of war effort • Sedition Act 1918 = allows up to 20 years

36. Civil Liberties Attacked • A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. • SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war,…, • . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or . . . • shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States,… • by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both....

37. Espionage and Sedition Acts • The Supreme court upholds the Espionage and Sedition acts in the Schenck vs. United States.

38. Critics of the War • “War to Make the World Safe for Armaments and Munitions Manufacturers.” • People like Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, and Jane Addams vigorously criticized the decision to enter the war. • Debs will be put in prison because of his views

39. Conscription or Selective Service Act • Selective Service Act: All males 18-45 were ordered to register for the draft • More men who served in the war were conscripted. • Draftees were un Unmarried, 13% black • 24 million registered • 2.8 million drafted • 2 million volunteered

40. African Americans During the War • Great Migration= large numbers move North • “Nothing here but money, and it is not hard to get.” • New York/Chicago • Push: poor conditions, floods, race oppression • Pull: more economic opportunity, jobs, higher pay • Migration causes -hostility among other groups- immigrants • Segregated in military-

41. Blacks in the Military • 260,000 enlist or are drafted • 50,000 were sent to France- most worked in service/menial tasks • Some Combat regiments • Segregated Units • White officers • Suffer racial abuse

42. American Troops Fight • American Expeditionary Force (AEF) name of the US forces in Europe • “Doughboys” nickname for Americans in WWI • Black Jack Pershing- American Commanding General

43. American Significance in War • 1916 Russians loosing (weak, poor); sending troops w/out weapons to the front line; 1916 Russians pull out with treaty Brest Litovsk 1917 • 1916 French mutiny, 300 killed for refusing to attack fighting • Trench warfare causing mass amounts of deaths; “No man’s land” and Machine Guns, high explosives, and poison gas • If Germany had taken Paris they would have won, but American reinforcements (1 million troops) stopped the Germans and save the Allies

44. American Battles • By early 1918 American troops arrive in France • The AEF fight in a few important engagements • Chateau-Thierry • Bellau Wood • The Argonne Forrest • St. Mihiel

45. Trench Warfare

47. Women and the War • Women enter the military services • Secretaries, nurses, telephone operators • More opportunity for civilian work • 1 million women in industry munitions

48. Armistice • November 11, 1918 • Germans facing invasion ask for a negotiated end of war based on Wilson’s Fourteen Points • War is effectively over.

49. The Fourteen Points andTreaty of Versailles • Wilson attempted to see his “Missionary” ideals in the settlement of the war. • His “New World Order” • “We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secured once for all against their recurrence. • What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. • All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program” • “Do unto others…”

50. Idealist expression of Wilson To correct errors that created the war and to support the creation of a new world order based on Wilson’s missionary principles Contained in Treaty of Versailles Some of the Points Self Determination = independence for colonies Freedom of Seas Greater freedom of trade No Secret Treaties Reduction of armaments League of Nations to solve international problems Fourteen Points