PROPAGANDA REVIEW

Espionage (spying)

Mexican-Americans Head North

Paying for the War

Women in the Military

Food and Fuel (Victory Gardens)

Volunteers for the War

African Americans in the War

CIVIL LIBERTIES IN WWI

Espionage Act of 1917

Crime to obstruct military recruitment

Denied mailing privileges to “treasonous” or “harmful” material

Sedition Act of 1918

Illegal to “utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, or abusive language” about the government, the Constitution, the flag, the armed forces or even the “uniform of the Army or Navy”

Case # 1: The American Revolution Movie

A Hollywood movie producer issued a film, The Spirit of 76, which portrayed some scenes in which British soldiers committed some atrocities. Claiming that the film questioned the faith of our ally, Great Britain, the prosecution argued that the war effort demanded total Allied support.

Guilty or Not Guilty?

Case # 1: The American Revolution Movie

Guilty!

Sentence/Fine:

U.S. v. Spirit of ’76: The producer was fined $10,000 and given a 10-year prison sentence (later commuted to three years).

Case #2: The Anti-Draft Circulars

An American Socialist, feeling that American involvement in World War I was an attempt to bolster the capitalist system, mailed circulars to men eligible for the draft, stating that being conscripted against one’s will was unconstitutional and should be resisted. The prosecution argued that this interfered with the government’s right to raise an army in time of war.

Guilty or Not Guilty?

Case #2: The Anti-Draft Circulars

Guilty!

Sentence/Fine:

Schenck v. U.S.A: 10-year sentence upheld by the Supreme Court, which established the “clear and present danger” doctrine for the boundaries of permissible speech.

Case #3: The Leaflets Dropped From a Window

Several men, concerned about America’s involvement in the unfolding Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, dropped some leaflets from a window to pedestrians below. The leaflets urged that American workers go on strike to protest America’s involvement in another nation’s civil war. The prosecution argued that while the leaflets made no statement about the U.S.’s role in World War or its allies, a strike might hamper war production and thus their actions were illegal.

Guilty or Not Guilty?

Case #3: The Leaflets Dropped From a Window

Guilty!

Sentence/Fine:

Abrams v. U.S.A: 20-year sentence upheld by the Supreme Court . Abrams was later released from prison on the condition that he emigrate to the Soviet Union.

Case #4: The Anti-Draft Speech

An American Socialist leader stood on a street corner in Cincinnati, Ohio and told a crowd of passers-by that the draft was wrong, that the European War was not America’s fight, and that the U.S. should withdraw its troops immediately. The prosecution contended that these words were inflammatory and could hinder the recruitment of soldiers by the Selective Service Administration.

Guilty or Not Guilty?

Case #4: The Anti-Draft Speech

Guilty!

Sentence/Fine:

U.S. v. Debs: 10-year sentence commuted by President Harding in 1921.

WWI QUICK FACTS

Organizer Set-Up

The alliances of Europe map

Label key ALLIES & CENTRAL POWERS

1. Label the European Countries

2. Color the key & identify the alliances

3. Color countries according to their alliance

Page 589 & 595 can help with the alliances

Otherwise READ to determine alliance

WWI Map

FRONT

WWI

INSIDE

589-591 591-593 & 596-597

594-596 593-594

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CAPTION

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CAPTION

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CAPTION

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CAPTION

589-591 (Causes)

1) “MAIN”:

2) Lusitania:

3) Zimmerman Note:

591-593 & 596-597 (US Mobilization)

1) Selective Service:

2) African American Soldiers:

3) War Industries Board:

4) Liberty Bonds:

594-595 (Technology)

1) Chemical Weapons:

2) Machine Guns:

3) Dogfights:

4) Navy:

5) Casualty Rates:

593-594 (Military Struggle)

1) Pershing:

2) Trench Warfare:

3) Argonne Forest:

4) Armistice:

Images

Dogfights

Recruitment

Propaganda

Lusitania

Woodrow Wilson

War Declaration

Trench Warfare

More Trench Warfare

Mustard Gas

Mobilization (“Over There”)

African American Soldiers

Zimmerman Note

Armistice

New Technology

Recruitment

German U-Boats

“Black Hand”

Reminders:

Define/Explain each topic

Cut and paste an image on the inside of each window. Make sure the image you choose is relevant to that category of information.

Include a caption explaining each picture

Color & label the map according the ALLIED and CENTRAL powers