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The Progressive Era. Part 3: Woodrow Wilson and the High Tide of Progressivism. The Federal Reserve System. The Sixteenth Amendment. Wilson’s Latin American Adventures. Haiti Nicaragua Cuba Mexico. “I will teach the Latin American republics to elect good men.” ~Woodrow Wilson.
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The Progressive Era Part 3: Woodrow Wilson and the High Tide of Progressivism
Wilson’s Latin American Adventures • Haiti • Nicaragua • Cuba • Mexico “I will teach the Latin American republics to elect good men.” ~Woodrow Wilson
“The Great War” World War I European Alliances on the Eve of the War
World War I Wilson declares U.S. neutrality.
World War I German “U-boats”
World War I Lusitania, 1915
World War I Woodrow Wilson Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan Secretary of State Robert Lansing
Election of 1916 Winner Woodrow Wilson Democrat Charles Evans Hughes Republican “He kept us out of war”
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare January 31, 1917
World War I on the Home Front • Conscription • Higher income taxes • Bond drives • War Industries Board • Committee on Public Information • Sedition Act of 1918
World War I at the Fighting Front Stopping the German Offensive • Chateau Thierry • Belleau Wood
World War I at the Fighting Front The Allies Take the Offensive The Meuse-Argonne Offensive The Saint Mihiel Offensive
World War I at the Fighting Front The Allies Take the Offensive The Meuse-Argonne Offensive
The Armistice Chicago, Illinois
Wilson vs. the “Reservationists” and “Irreconcilables” Warren G. Harding Henry Cabot Lodge
The Election of 1920 Winner 34% 60% James M Cox, Democrat League of Nations Warren G. Harding, Republican Normalcy