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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