Please do the following

1. Please do the following • Take your seat right away! • Open up your unipac to page 9. • Turn off all electronic devices. • Be ready to get started. I need all of the time today. Thanks!!!!

2. World War I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbggEGUaE28&feature=player_detailpage U.S. Involvement 1917-1919

3. I. Reasons to go to War in Europe:

4. Why go to war? • The U.S. doesn’t really have an issue with anyone……at least at the start of the war. • The U.S. tends to side with Great Britain and France due to past alliances. • Great Britain works hard to gain American support. • U.S. business and banks are providing economic support in the forms of goods and loans.

5. Drawn into the fight • Sinking of the Lusitania. • Zimmerman Telegraph. • Public pressure. • Protect business interests - capitalism.

6. Wilson asks for war..... • Reluctant at first.”The world must be made safe for democracy…” • April 2,1917 he asks Congress for a declaration of war. • April 6, 1917 Congress gives approval for war.

7. Some are already at war. • American Volunteer Corps. • French Foreign Legion • Canadian Forces

8. II. American War Intervention and Strategy – John J. Pershing “Lafayette, we are here.” -J. Pershing.

9. Pershing Appointed by Wilson • 1916 John J. Pershing is appointed by Wilson to lead the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). • Pershing is the only qualified candidate • America only has 370,000 trained and ready troops in April of 1917.

10. Strategy for success? • Pershing stalls from June 1917 – October 1917. • Will not commit doughboys to the French war effort. • Needs time for trained soldiers to arrive in Europe.

11. New Recruits

13. War - A brand new ball game. • Trench Warfare. • Machine Gun/Artillery. • Airplane. • Chemical Warfare.

14. Trenches • Stalemate – when neither side in a conflict can win. • Impossible to gain ground. • Dig in and hold out. • What to do with the bodies?

18. Machine Gun and Long Range Artillery

19. “The Vickers”

20. Field Artillery

21. Long Range Artillery

24. Airplane

28. Chemical Warfare Soldiers in a blind line. Mustard Gas Phosgene Gas Chloride Gas

29. Armistice is achieved • U.S. stops the advancing Germans in France – Spring 1918. • German lines have crumbled by October 1918. • Armistice signed, and on the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” – the fighting ends • U.S. Stats. 126,000 killed / 234,000 wounded

30. before and after French Village of Esnes

32. III. The Home Front What was going on inthe States?

33. Help out now! • Selective Service Act of 1917. -All men between 21-30 years of age must sign up for military service. • Conscription had never been required. • This upset many Americans.

34. Government Organizes -Loyalty Acts of 1917 – “ensures common goal.” -Espionage Act *– punishment for helping the enemy. -Sedition Act – prohibited speech against the Government – censure mail. -Trading With the Enemy Act – limited commerce *later challenged and upheld by the Supreme Court Schneck v. United States (1919) “clear and present danger”

35. Government Organizes (cont) -War Industries Board (WIB) – Headed by Bernard Baruch(Wall Street Broker) - Set prices. - Controlled the flow of raw materials. Committee on Public Information (CPI) – Headed by George Creel (Journalist) - Sell the war to America. - Distribute posters and pamphlets.

36. What about John Q. Public? • Bonds • Rations • Daylight Savings • “Victory Gardens”