United States and a World at War 19131920

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United States and a World at War1913-1920
Chapter 22
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Foreign Policy

• Centered on Latin America
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Mexican Revolution
• U.S. troops sent to protect interests
• Missionary diplomacy

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Attack on Columbus, NM

• March 8, 1916 Pancho Villa and about 400 of his
  troops arrived - Columbus, New Mexico.
• Villa - attack this American town
• Carranza government - sold Mexico to the
  Americans
• Pablo Lopez - We want revenge against the
  Americans,

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Attack on Columbus, NM - contd

• Americans killed
• U.S. responds Black Jack Pershing

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Incursion into Mexico
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Schlieffen Plan

• Plan of attack developed in 1906 by Alfred von
  Schlieffen, German Army Chief of Staff

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World War I
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Images of World War I

• Army life

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New Weaponry
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Foreign Born Population of the US 18701920
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Wartime Pressure

• Ethnic groups
• Trade
• visit and search
• U-boats
• Neutrality

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Just in Case

• Negotiates Colonel House
• Selective Service Act
• 1916 -He kept us out of war
• Jan 1917
• Peace without victory, peace among equals
• But we enter why?

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Zimmerman Telegram
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Total War

• War Industries Board - supervise production of
  war material
• National War Labor Board - mediate and arbitrate
  labor disputes
• War Finance Corporation - organize, centralize,
  and fund supply procurement

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Food Administration
Meatless and Wheatless days
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Committee on Public Information-Creel Committee
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Domestic Impact of the War
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Civil Liberties

• Espionage Act
• Sedition Act
• Schenck v. U.S.
• Ethnic tension
• Anti-German
• Racial tension
• Migration for jobs

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Peace?

• Fourteen Points
• Treaty of Versailles
• Opposition
• Reservationists
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Irreconcilables
• Senator William Borah
• Robert Lafollette

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League of Nations

• Green - members of League of Nations
• White - Never a member

Pink/yellow - left or were expelled.
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New Europe
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Summary

• US went to war
• Did not stay long
• Idealism versus power politics
• A changed nation?

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Article X

• The Members of the League undertake to respect
  and preserve as against external aggression the
  territorial integrity and existing political
  independence of all Members of the League. In
  case of any such aggression or in case of any
  threat or danger of such aggression the Council
  shall advise upon the means by which this
  obligation shall be fulfilled.