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WW I
AMSTUD
M.A.I.N. CAUSES OF WW I
Militarism
Alliance systems
Imperialism
Nationalism
ASSASSINATIONOF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND (June 28, 1914)
ALLIED & CENTRAL POWERS
IMPROVED MODERN WEAPONRY
TRENCH WARFARE
EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION
● 1918 - 11,618
● Anti-immigrant sentiments
● Nativist Sentiments will lead to quotas for some groups
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
● 1914: Wilson proclaims neutrality and maintains trade
● British Blockade & German unrestricted submarine warfare
LUSITANIA: 1915
ELECTION OF 1916
Woodrow Wilson
Charles Evan Hughes
US ENTERS THE WAR
● 1917 British spies intercept Zimmerman Telegram
● 1917 Germany breaks the Sussex Pledge
● April 6, 1917: US declares war on Germany
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT 1917
24 million men register for draft (5 million serve)
American Expeditionary Force (AEF
RISE OF WARTIME AGENCIES
● War Industries Board
● War Labor Board
● Railroad Administration
● Fuel Agency
● Food Administration
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION
LIMITING LIBERTIES AT HOME
● Espionage Act (1917)● Sedition Act (1918)
● Eugene V. Debs● Socialist Party, and IWW● Schenck v. United States (1919)
GREAT MIGRATION
● Labor demand in Northern factories
● 500,000 Black Americans migrate
● Race riots & backlash