WWIEssential Questions:

•How did a regional conflict become a world war?•Why did this war make people want to avoid war?•How can you get people to support war & why will some continue to oppose war?•Did WWI solve the problems that the great powers wanted to?

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Chain of events Archduke of the Austria-

Hungarian Empire (Franz Ferdinand) is assassinated on June 28,1914

After the assassination: Aust-Hung declared war

on….Serbia July 14, 1914 Serbia was a close ally of

Russia so Russia started to mobilize

Germany was allied with Austr-Hung so it declared war on Russia & then France via Belgium

Alliance System Triple Entente- France,

Britain & Russia Triple Alliance- Germany,

Austria-Hungary & Italy (also known as the Central Powers

Italy switches sides in 1915

Bolshevik Rev in 1917…Russia out

Trench Warfare Brutal fighting…. 900,000 dead by the

end of 1914 (and the war started in August)

Chemical weapons (ie. Mustard Gas)

US role in War President Woodrow

Wilson proclaimed “neutrality”

1916 campaign slogan “He Kept us Out of War”

But insisted on allowing ships to sail through the war zone

Series of events that brought the US into the war Lusitania in 1915 Sussex in 1916

Zimmerman Telegram Telegram sent from Germany to Mexico Promises to give Mexico back territory it

lost in Mexican-Am War if it sides with Germany

Decoded by the British Congress declares war on Germany on

April 2, 1917

Propaganda Simplistic, repetitive

images intended to get a reaction out people

Creel Committee

Anti-German Propaganda

Pro-American Propaganda

Language Game

German Shepards were renamed “Alstasians”

Sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage”

German composers outlawed Illegal to speak German in public Prohibition

Espionage & Sedition Acts

Espionage Act- punished anyone found guilty of helping the enemy, hindering recruitment, or inciting revolt.

Sedition Act- prohibited any speech that was “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive” of the government, flag, Constitution or armed forces.”

Anti-War Movement Massive anti-war

movement developed in US

Mainly leftists and radicals

They thought war was not for democracy (Britain was an Imperial Monarchy) but was an imperial war

Schenk v US -see hand out Mailed leaflets that

spoke against the draft

Arrested for violating the Espionage Act

Appealed---went to US Supreme Court

Should speech rights be limited during a time of war?

Aftermath of War Armistice --Nov 11, 1918 Versailles Treaty--Germany has to pay $$

to winners and loses its colonies…humiliates Germany

Italy never got the territories that it was promised by the allies

Europe Before WWI

Europe After the War

Legacies of War

Makes war look bad--people made $ off of war, many people died (about 20 million people), not clear what was gained

Leads to Red Scare/ rise of civil liberties groups

Prohibition (see doc)

Woman’s Suffrage (doc & Iron jawed angels)

1920s…more isolationist, conservative,

Bolshevik Revolution 1917 Russia pulled out of

war in October Red Flag of

Bolshevism

Red Scare-Fear of Radicalism

Fear of foreigners

Long Term

Wilson campaigned for League of Nations (pre-cursor to UN) Research L of N--what is it? Paraphrase 3

covenants, especially Article 10 Find a map with post WWI borders..modify

your map