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Chapter 22. Global Involvements and World War I, 1902 – 1920. Pp. 663-671 Pp.671-683 Pp. 684-694 Also, make sure you have read Company K excerpts “Our Boys” article “Influenza, 1918”. Readings. Introduction. Jane Addams Urged increased food production
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Chapter 22 Global Involvements and World War I, 1902 – 1920
Pp. 663-671 Pp.671-683 Pp. 684-694 Also, make sure you have read Company K excerpts “Our Boys” article “Influenza, 1918” Readings
Introduction • Jane Addams • Urged increased food production • Fought for lower infant mortality rates • Organized Women’s International League • 1931 Nobel Peace Prize
Defining America’s World Role, 1902-1914 • Events of the 1890’s signaled America’s growing involvement in World affairs
Open Door Textile investments Railroad construction Boxer Rebellion Harmonious Righteous Fists Secretary of State John Hay “informal empire” 250,00o international army Open Door notes 1900 Sec. Hay 467 million X 1.25 per Shirt The “Open Door”: Competing for the China Market
1879 French company 1888 bankrupt 1902 sold to US 40 million Colombia? NO! “Greedy little Anthropoids” Philippe Bunau-Varilla New York Hotel revolution Nov. 3, 1903 US warship 10 miles in perpetuity Walter Reed Army Medical Corps Yellow Fever Gorgas Panama Canal 1906 1914 Colombia gave in 1921 $25 million The Panama Canal: Hardball Diplomacy
Roosevelt Venezuela Great Britain, Germany, Italy Dominican Republic “Roosevelt Corollary” to the Monroe Doc. “wrongdoing” “Talk Softly but carry a big stick!” Roosevelt Asserts U.S. Power in Latin America and Asia
Great White Fleet • San Francisco Board of Education • No Asians in schools! • “Yellow Peril” • California journalists • “While Peril” • Japanese journalists • 16 gleaming battleships • Japan and Russia cut us out of China! • Oh, if the first Roosevelt had only known!
Taft Asserts US Power • Revolt against Adolfo Diaz in Nicaragua • Taft sends marines who stay until 1933 • Russia attacks and invades Manchuria • Russo-Japanese War • Japan sunk Russian fleet 1904
John J. Pershing “Black Jack” Wilson and Latin America
War in Europe "Rule Britannia" • "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: • "Britons never will be slaves."
The Coming of War • "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"
Britain loses the Battle of Jutland. Britain declares North Sea a “war zone.” Germany declares waters off the coast of Britain a “war zone.” President Wilson: “Americans are to stay neutral in thought and in actions.” American banks loan $27 million to Germany American banks loan $4.3 billion to allies. The Perils of Neutrality
Lusitania May 7, 1915 Sunk off the coast of Ireland 128 Americans killed Secretly carrying munitions
Presidential Election of 1916 • “He kept us OUT of War” Wilson defeats Charles Evans Hughes of New York, a Republican. Roosevelt roars, “The only difference in the two is the mustache—cowards.”
Wilson is elected in November. Russia is disabled from the war. Germany resumes “unrestricted U-boat warfare.” Czar is arrested. Democratic government comes to power in Russia. Yea, right! U-boats sink 5 American ships. Zimmerman Telegram to Germany’s ambassador to Mexico is intercepted. “Help us, and get back your lost territories.” April 2, 1917 Joint resolution to Congress. “Let us go and make the world safe for democracy.” The United States Enters the War
Mobilizing at Home, Fighting in France, 1917-1918 • Casualties • Allied 70% casualties • US 8% in 19 months
Raising, Training and Testing an Army • Selective Service Act (May 1917) • Commission on Training Camp Activities • American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
Organizing the Economy for War • War Industries Board • Fuel Administration • Food Administration • “Meatless Mondays” • Wheatless Wednesdays • “Serve Beans By All Means” • Harriot Stanton Blatch
Personalities Kaiser Wilhelm Count Alfred von Schlieffen Paul von Hindenburg
French Allies French general Victor Michel French general Joseph Joffre French general Ferdinand Foch
British Russian and American Allies General Earl Haig, “Butcher Haig” as some came to call him for 2 million British casualties King George V, Black Jack Pershing, Czar Nicholas II Notice anything abut George V and Nicholas? Voice of Nicholas II, last Czar of Russia
With the Expeditionary Force in France • As early as 1916 American volunteers jointed a French air unit known as the Lafayette Escadrille (squadron).
Necessary Elements of War Maxim gun, U-boats, German anti-aircraft, gas masks and British whistles
Alabamians who served Corporal Sidney Manning, Manning Memorial, Major General Robert Lee Bullard
Alabama Military Installations Maxwell Field, Lieutenant Maxwell, Red Cross, Fort McClellan, Ft Rucker
Flanders Fields • In the Trenches recreation "In Flanders Fields"
With the AEF “A German bullet is cleaner than a whore.” “For God’s sake don’t show this to the President, he’ll stop the war.” German spring 1918 offensives along the Aisne River and Marne Harlem Hellfighters
Turning the Tide MUD St. Mihiel
Chateau-Thierry • 3 US army and marine divisions stopped Germans here.
Belleau Wood • 1 division 27,000 men and 1,000 officers
Rheims • Turning point of war • German attack failed • Counter attack overwhelmed Germans.
Advertising the War • Committee on Public Information • The Marne, Edith Wharton • New Republic
Phonograph, Popular Music and Home Front Morale • Make sure and read pp. 680-681
Suppressing Dissent • Espionage Act • Sedition Amendment • Schenck v. United States
Suppressing Dissent by Law • Espionage Act
Women in Wartime • 19th Amendment
Public-Health Crisis: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic • Spanish Flu