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Title: World War I


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World War I
  • I. Outbreak of war
  • -European origins
  • --arms economic competition
  • --entangling alliances
  • -Reaction in the U.S.
  • --divided by origins
  • --U.S. neutrality/ at least officially

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II. Why a change from neutrality?
  • -British roots
  • -Vital Interests (economic)
  • -Moral Diplomacy (ideology)
  • --international law
  • --make the world safe for democracy
  • --rights of neutral carriers
  • --rights of neutral passengers

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III. The domestic impact
  • -demographics race
  • --war jobs/beginning of Black
  • Exodus
  • --women into the work force
  • -need for labor
  • -begins unpurposeful
  • breakdown of traditional roles for
    women/a womans place is in the home
    (cult of domesticity)

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-business/government relations --temperin
g the progressive distrust of big
business --dollar a year men --four minute
men-enhanced federal authority --draft
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--Committee on Public
Information -George Creel -whip up
support -make pro-war point of view/discredit
opponents -poster campaign
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-civil liberties under siege --Sedition Act of
1918 -lure of the Paris lifestyle
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