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1914 - 1919
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Topic 12
Powerful military forces – arms race
Nationalism
Imperialism
System of Alliances
Collective guilt of the great powers
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Sinking of Lusitania, 1915
German unrestricted submarine warfare, 1917
Allied propaganda
Hostility toward Germany
American economic ties to Britain
Historical / Cultural ties to Britain and France
American idealism
American long-term strategic interests
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Main Points
Open Diplomacy
Freedom of the Seas
Removal of trade barriers
Arms reduction
Adjustment of colonial claims
Nation / Ethnic self-determination
League of Nations
First Page of Wilson’s Shorthand Draft
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Economic mobilization – War Industries Board
Military mobilization – Selective Service Acts
Espionage Act (1917)
Financing the War – new taxes / Liberty and Victory bonds appeals
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American Expeditionary Force – 2 million
soldiers – General Pershing
Contributed to defeat of German 1918
offensive on Western Front
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Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
“The Tiger”David Lloyd George
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Covenant of the League of Nations
New German boundaries
German military limits
Reparations (Article 231- war “guilt” clause)
Redrawing - map of Europe and Middle East
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End of the Progressive movement
The “Red Scare”
American isolationism – rejection of the Treaty of Versailles / League of Nations
Emergence of America as the world’s creditor
America emerges as a Great Power – but what will be its role?
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James L Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I
Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I
David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society
Margaret Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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