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America's Global Involvements in World War I (1902-1920)

Explore the events and key figures that defined America's role in World War I and its impact on global affairs. From the Open Door Policy in China to the Panama Canal, this chapter examines how the war reshaped America's foreign relations.

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America's Global Involvements in World War I (1902-1920)

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  1. Chapter 22 Global Involvements and World War I, 1902 – 1920

  2. Pp. 663-671 Pp.671-683 Pp. 684-694 Also, make sure you have read Company K excerpts “Our Boys” article “Influenza, 1918” Readings

  3. Introduction • Jane Addams • Urged increased food production • Fought for lower infant mortality rates • Organized Women’s International League • 1931 Nobel Peace Prize

  4. Defining America’s World Role, 1902-1914 • Events of the 1890’s signaled America’s growing involvement in World affairs

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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!

  9. 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

  10. Map 22.1: U.S. Hegemony in the Caribbean and Latin America

  11. John J. Pershing “Black Jack” Wilson and Latin America

  12. War in Europe "Rule Britannia" • "Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: • "Britons never will be slaves."

  13. The Coming of War • "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"

  14. 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

  15. Lusitania May 7, 1915 Sunk off the coast of Ireland 128 Americans killed Secretly carrying munitions

  16. 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.”

  17. 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

  18. Mobilizing at Home, Fighting in France, 1917-1918 • Casualties • Allied 70% casualties • US 8% in 19 months

  19. Raising, Training and Testing an Army • Selective Service Act (May 1917) • Commission on Training Camp Activities • American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

  20. Organizing the Economy for War • War Industries Board • Fuel Administration • Food Administration • “Meatless Mondays” • Wheatless Wednesdays • “Serve Beans By All Means” • Harriot Stanton Blatch

  21. Personalities Kaiser Wilhelm Count Alfred von Schlieffen Paul von Hindenburg

  22. French Allies French general Victor Michel French general Joseph Joffre French general Ferdinand Foch

  23. 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

  24. With the Expeditionary Force in France • As early as 1916 American volunteers jointed a French air unit known as the Lafayette Escadrille (squadron).

  25. World War I Artillery

  26. Necessary Elements of War Maxim gun, U-boats, German anti-aircraft, gas masks and British whistles

  27. With the Expeditionary Force, continued…

  28. Alabamians who served Corporal Sidney Manning, Manning Memorial, Major General Robert Lee Bullard

  29. Alabama Military Installations Maxwell Field, Lieutenant Maxwell, Red Cross, Fort McClellan, Ft Rucker

  30. Map 22.2: The United States on the Western Front, 1918

  31. WWI Aircraft

  32. WWI Aircraft

  33. World War I Posters

  34. Flanders Fields • In the Trenches recreation "In Flanders Fields"

  35. 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

  36. Turning the Tide MUD St. Mihiel

  37. Chateau-Thierry • 3 US army and marine divisions stopped Germans here.

  38. Belleau Wood • 1 division 27,000 men and 1,000 officers

  39. Rheims • Turning point of war • German attack failed • Counter attack overwhelmed Germans.

  40. Promoting War and Suppressing Dissent

  41. Advertising the War • Committee on Public Information • The Marne, Edith Wharton • New Republic

  42. Wartime Intolerance and Dissent

  43. Phonograph, Popular Music and Home Front Morale • Make sure and read pp. 680-681

  44. Suppressing Dissent • Espionage Act • Sedition Amendment • Schenck v. United States

  45. Suppressing Dissent by Law • Espionage Act

  46. Economic and Social Trends in Wartime America

  47. Boom Times in Industry and Agriculture

  48. Blacks Migrate Northward

  49. Women in Wartime • 19th Amendment

  50. Public-Health Crisis: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic • Spanish Flu

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