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Wilson's War Speech: America's Entry into World War I

The Zimmermann Note, German submarine warfare, and violations of neutrality lead to President Wilson's war declaration. The US mobilizes troops and expands the federal government to support the war effort.

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Wilson's War Speech: America's Entry into World War I

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  1. Chapter 30 World War I

  2. ZIMMERMAN NOTE Berlin, January 19, 1917 On the first of Februarywe intend to begin unrestricted submarine warfare. In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America. If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The details are left to you for settlement.... You are instructed to inform the President of Mexico of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with

  3. ZIMMERMAN NOTE with the United States and suggest that the President of Mexico, on his own initiative, should communicate with Japan suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between Germany and Japan. Please call to the attention of the President of Mexico that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months. Zimmerman (Secretary of State) zimmerman notes

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  5. WILSON'S WAR SPEECH When German submarines sank three American merchant ships in March 1917, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war.

  6. Wilson's War Speech April 8, 1917, the US declares war on Germany. The new German policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind….have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board….The present German submarine war…..is a war against all nations….Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but on the vindication of right, of human right…. We are…..the sincere friends of the German people…..We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions towards the millions of men and women of

  7. Wilson's War Speech German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us and share our life…... There are……many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts……democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right…..as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world safe for democracy.

  8. Wilson's War Speech To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.

  9. Principles Fought For • The right is more precious than peace • war to end all war • The world must be safe for democracy. • defend human rights • defend our trade • neutrality • freedom of the seas • violation of international law

  10. sandwich man SANDWICH MAN The US believed it had the right to trade with the warring nations and they would respect our neutrality…….Didn’t happen! The German submarine warfare and British blockade violated our freedom of the seas and neutrality.

  11. The YanksAre Coming!

  12. pershing AMERICAN EXPEDTIONARY FORCES General John J. Pershing, commanding general of the AEF. Referred to as the Doughboys and Yanks. 2 million in France by Sept. 1918

  13. Americans in the Trenches

  14. Expansion of the Federal Government

  15. Council of National Defense • War Industries Board • Bernard Baruch • Food Administration • Herbert Hoover • Railroad Administration • William McAdoo • National War Labor Board • William Howard Taft

  16. War Industries Board • To build weapons for the war, US industry would undergo a massive change. • From a peacetime industry to a war time industry….. • Led by Bernard Baruch, the WIB set prices and determined what goods should be produced by private industry…. • US Govt. controlled the economy • Contradiction?

  17. War Industries Board

  18. US ENTRY INTO WWI • Food Administration:Herbert Hoover heads effort to conserve food and boost agricultural output • US feeds the world from the farms and ranches in the Great Plains… ”Bread basket of the World” • Liberty and victory gardens • Meatless and wheatless days

  19. U. S. Food Administration

  20. National War Garden Commission

  21. U. S. School Garden Army

  22. U. S. Shipping Board

  23. U. S. Fuel Administration

  24. US ENTRY INTO WWI • Committee on Public Information • Creel Committee, headed by George Creel, told Americans what the war was about and to publicize the American aims. • Propaganda posters to get Americans to support the war effort.

  25. Committee on Public Information

  26. US ENTRY INTO WWI • Selective Service Act • May of 1917, President Wilson and Congress pass into legislation a draft or conscription. • 21 to 30 yrs. and later extended to 40 yrs. of age.

  27. US ENTRY INTO WWI 1917 – Selective Service Act • 24,000,000 men registered for the draft by the end of 1918. • 2,810,296 drafted and served in WWI • 3.7 million men served in WW1 (2,000,000 saw active combat) • Volunteers and draftees • 400,000 African-Americansserved in segregated units. • 15,000 Native-Americans served as scouts, messengers, and snipers in non-segregated units.

  28. US ENTRY INTO WWI congress actions

  29. congress actions US ENTRY INTO WWI Financing the war: • Sale of war bonds. • Liberty and victory loans raised $21 billion. • Raised income taxes

  30. Attacks on Civil Liberties ( Bill of Rights )

  31. National Security vs. Civil Liberties Espionage Act – 1917 • forbade actions that obstructed recruitment or efforts to promote insubordination in the military. • ordered the Postmaster General to remove Leftist materials from the mail. • fines of up to $10,000 and/or up to 20 years in prison.

  32. US ENTRY INTO WWI Espionage & Sedition Act, 1918 • Provided for up to $10,000 in fines and 20 years in prison for interfering with the war effort or using disloyal language. • At least 1,597 persons were arrested, and 41 received prison sentences; newspapers criticizing the government lost mailing privileges. • Congress and President Wilson enacted this law to promote patriotism, nationalism and protect the National Security of the US during WWI.

  33. National Security vs. Civil Liberties Sedition Act – 1918 • It was a crime to speak against the purchase of war bonds or willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, orabusive languageabout this form of US Govt., • the US Constitution, or the US armed forces or to willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production of things necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war…with intent of such curtailment to cripple or hinder, the US in the prosecution of the war.

  34. Schenck v. U.S.: Visual Schenck v. U.S.: Visual Schenck v. U.S.: Visual Schenck v. U.S.: Visual Schenck vs. United States, 1919 • In 1917 the United States was at War with Germany. WWI • Charles Schenck, a member of the Socialist Party, handed out leaflets condemning the war and urging young men to resist the military draft. • He was arrested and convicted for violating the Espionage and Sedition Act of 1917. • Schenk took his case to the United States Supreme Court arguing that his constitutional right to freedom of speech had been violated.

  35. Schenck vs. United States, 1919 Issue Can “free speech” be censored or restricted during war time?

  36. Schenck vs. United States, 1919 SC ruling: Disagreed with Schenck Majority opinion BUT, every act of speech must be judged according to the circumstances in which it was spoken. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. "Words can be weapons . . .The question in every case is whether the words used in such circumstances are of such nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has the right to prevent."

  37. Schenck vs. United States, 1919 • Under normal circumstances, his actions would have been protected by 1st amendment • The country was at war, Schenck's freedom of speech was not protected. • SC ruling meant there were limits to freedom of speech in war time. • From the ruling, the Court established the "clear and present danger" principle to decide whether or not certain kinds of speech are protected.

  38. Government Excess & Threats to the Civil Liberties of Americans 4. Abrams v. US – 1919- majority ruling --> cited Holmes’ “Clear and present danger” doctrine. - Holmes & Brandeis dissented:The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, denying that a “silly leaflet” published by an “unknown man” constituted such a danger.

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  43. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION vs Vladamir Lenin Czar Nicholas II Czar Nicholas and the Romanov Family would be overthrown by Lenin who eventually would start the first Communistic state……

  44. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION • CAUSES • Food and fuel shortages • Striking workers • Terrible loses in WWI • Czar was a weak ruler • Marxist (communist) propaganda spread by Lenin • EFFECTS • Czar overthrown • Russia pulls out of the war • Russia becomes a communistic country • Germany sends Zimmerman Note to Mexico

  45. battle fronts • German offensive in the summer of 1918 to capture Paris, France and win the war. • With the help of the U.S., the French and British were able to stop the German advance. • Germans surrender and sign an armistice on Nov. 11, 1918 to end the war.

  46. Wilson’s Foreign Policy • Wilson was obsessed with establishing a new world order. • He believed the US should promote democracy around the world in order to insure peace. • Believed that all nations could work together to end war • AND, a country’s foreign policy decisions should be based on honesty and unselfishness… • Events around the world, however, kept him from ever realizing his dream.

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