The War to end War

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Chapter 31

• The War to end War

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War by Germany

• Zimmerman note
• German foreign secretary secretly proposed
  German-Mexican alliance
• Mexico would get TX, NM, AZ
• Germany sank 4 unarmed US ships

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Wilsons 14 Points

• Form League of Nations to prevent war
• Idealistic
• Self-determination to minority people

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14 Points

• WILSONS 14 POINTS
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• Freedom of the Seas
• Reduction of Armaments
• Self-Determination of Subject Peoples
• Removal of International Trade Barriers
• Rectification of Boundaries
• Open Covenants for Peace No Secret Diplomacy
• Impartial fair Adjustment of Colonial Claims
• Formulation of an Association of Nations
• (League of Nations)

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Clear Present Danger

• Schenck v. United States
• Free speech could be restricted if it presented
  a clear present danger

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Unity
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Fuel
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Women on the Home Front
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• Women went to work in factories

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Herbert Hoover

• Head of Food Administration

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Doughboys

• 1st conscription since Civil War
• Men 18-45
• Women admitted to armed forces
• African American servedsegregated units

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Fighting in France

• Took about a year to reach France after
  declaration of war
• Allied replacements
• Fought in France, Belgium, and Russia

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Trench Warfare
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Poison Gas
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Devastation
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Hammer the Huns

• Chateau-Thierry-1st major American engagement
• Black Jack Pershing assigned 85 mile front
• Argonne Forest
• 10 of Americans involved were killed
• Alvin C. Yorkkilled 20 Germans captured 132

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Armistice Day

• War ended on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11
  oclock
• Americas greatest contribution was supplies

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Wilson Steps Down

• Went to Paris without support of American people
• Did not take a Republicanproblems
• Idealisticbetter world
• LEAGUE OF NATIONS

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Battles in Paris

• Idealistic better world
• Wanted to end imperialismnothing really changed

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The Treaty

• Senate would not approve League of Nations
• France wanted German inhabited Rhineland
• Germany wanted itself determination
• Germany got Rhineland
• If Germany attacked France, GB US with aid
• Japan wanted German island in Pacific
• Japan got islands but under controlled by League

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Peace TreatyNew War

• Treaty of Versailles
• Germany went to peace table to get 14 Pointsonly
  got 4
• Wilson forced to compromise
• Fallen idol
• Liberated many Poles

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Domestic Parade

• America wanted no entangling alliances

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Wilson Tour

• Speechmaking tour of country to convince people
• Wilson collapsed of exhaustion
• Did not meet with cabinet for 7 months

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Deadlock

• Treaty defeated by senate
• Wilson wanted all or nothinggot nothing

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1920

• Harding Republican won
• Death sentence for League

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Betrayal

• Collapse of Treaty of Versailles
• US was not there to support it