Week+25+Reading

Chapter 23 - WWI
WWI Review Materials:
 * Use AMSCO Ch 22. AMSCO MCQ key: 1-B 2-A 3-C 4-A 5-D 6-C 7-C 8-A 9-A 10-C
 * [[file:APUSH WWI outline.pdf]]
 * [[file:APUSH_Ch23_1916-1920_ElectionCharts.pdf]]
 * [[file:APUSH_Ch23_WW1Chart.pdf]]

__Fri-Sun 2/10-12__


 * Text pp. 888-898**

"The world must be made safe for democracy," Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Triple Alliance and Triple Entente, Austria's July Ultimatum, war of attrition, industrialized war (barbed wire, machine guns, military aircraft, heavy artillery, poison gas), trench warfare, American neutrality, anti-German hostility, US-UK trade and financial ties, "rule the waves and waive the rules," U-boats, "strict accountability," RMS //Lusitania// sinking, Gore-McLemore resolutions, //Arabic// pledge, //Sussex// pledge, military preparedness, 1916 Naval Construction Act, 1916 National Defense Act, Women's Peace Party, 1916 presidential election, Charles Evans Hughes, "He kept us out of war," unrestricted submarine warfare, "peace without victory," armed neutrality, Zimmerman Telegram, Russia's February Revolution, Wilson's war message, "The Yanks Are Coming!"

__Mon 2/13__

Review for Ch 21-22 test:

25 MCQ (approximately 50/50 on Ch 21/Ch 22): 20 pts Free response (Ch 22): 20 pts

US foreign policy 1865-1914 review outline:

__Tues 2/14__

Happy Valentine's Day!


 * Text pp. 898-906**

//Military Mobilization// 1917 Selective Service Act (vs. conscription), draft boards system, draft deferments, draft evasion/dodging, conscientious objectors, the US armed forces and segregation, Col. Charles Young (10th Cavalry), 1917 Houston race riots (compare to 1906 Brownsville riot), Committee on Training Camp Activities ("You wouldn't use another fellow's toothbrush...")

//Economic Mobilization// 1917 Food and Fuel Act (Lever Act), US Fuel Administration and US Food Administration, "wheatless Mondays, meatless Tuesdays, porkless Thursdays" etc., fuel holidays, daylight savings time, US Railroad Administration (1917-1920), Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo, Liberty Bond drive(s), "progressive" income taxation, War Industries Board, Bernard Baruch, Wilson's Mediation Commission and National War Labor Board, "no-strike" pledges, woman/African Americans and the war, African-American Great Migration north, 1917 East St. Louis race riot, "Make America Safe for Democracy"

__Weds 2/15__


 * Text pp. 906-912**

//Ideological Mobilization and Wartime Hysteria// [|WWI homefront propaganda in posters] George Creel, Committee on Public Information, WWI repression of civil liberties (1917 Espionage Act, Trading with the Enemy Act, 1918 Sedition Act), Victor Berger, (re)arrest of Eugene Debs, American Protective League, lynching of Robert Prager, "liberty cabbage" (viz. "freedom fries"), American (National) Civil Liberties Union, //Schenk v. US// and the "clear and present danger" argument against free speech, //Abrams v. US// and Holmes's/Brandeis's dissent, WWI and the realization of progressive reform amendments (18th, 19th), National Prohibition/Volstead Act, Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party

//Battlefield developments// American Expeditionary Force, "doughboys," General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, 1917 October (Bolshevik) Revolution, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 Spring Offensive (German), Battle of Belleau Wood, Hindenburg Line, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, trenchfoot, "shell shock," November armistice

__Presidents' Day Weekend__


 * Text pp. 913-924**

//Wilson Compromises at the Paris Peace Conference// Wilson's 14 Points (compare The Lord's mere 10),"self-determination," freedom of the seas, free trade, "open covenants openly arrived at," League of Nations, Wilson as American hero to European masses, 1918 midterm elections, American peace delegation (WW, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, no Republicans), Big Four, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George (Lloyd George is his surname; it's two words), Vittorio Orlando, Bolshevism and communism, Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin), Wilson's intervention in Russian Civil War (American Expeditionary Force Siberia), League mandate system, 1919 Treaty of Versailles, "war guilt" clause, reparations, collective security, Article X of the League of Nations Covenant

//The Senate Refuses the League// Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA), Lodge's "fourteen reservations" (NOT a coincidence!), Irreconcilables and Reservationists, Wilson's Sept 1919 speaking tour and stroke, Senate's treaty votes (Nov 1919, Mar 1920), American internationalism vs realism in foreign policy

//Domestic Turmoil and Republican Ascendance// 1918 influenza pandemic, the "new Negro" and the race riots of 1919, Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 "Black Sox," 1918-1919 economic recession, "the year of strikes"

//The First Red Scare and Domestic Politics// Comintern (Communist International), May Day bombings, WW's Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Palmer raids, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, the crackdown of 1919-1920 and the demise of progressivism, presidential election of 1920, Democratic VP candidate FDR, Republican "Old Guard," Sen. Warren G. Harding (R-OH), "return to normalcy"