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Bellringer:

Bellringer:. Create a Frayer Model for either the word “Sedition” and “Espionage”. Cornell Notes: Instructional Statements. I will receive instruction on . . . Changes in American society as a result of U.S. entry to WWI . I will have mastered the concept when I can . . .

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  1. Bellringer: • Create a Frayer Model for either the word “Sedition” and “Espionage”

  2. Cornell Notes:Instructional Statements • I will receive instruction on . . . • Changes in American society as a result of U.S. entry to WWI. • I will have mastered the concept when I can . . . • Create a graphic organizer depicting the changes in American Society resulting from U.S. entry to WWI.

  3. Essential Question • What changes occurred in American society as a result of U.S. entry to World War I?

  4. The Great War: Home Front1917 – 1918 PowerPoint by Mr. Hataway 10/21/2012 US History, Unit 04 Lesson: 03

  5. “It is not an army that we must shape and train for war, it is a nation.” President Wilson

  6. Economy • Food Administration (1917) • Headed by Herbert Hoover • Increased agricultural output • encourage Americans to conserve food • Recruited labor/organized labor

  7. Economy • Financing war • “Liberty Bonds” and “Victory Bonds” • loan to the government • used famous artists to make posters; movie stars to host bond rallies. • Al Jolson, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin.

  8. Economy

  9. New Opportunities • Women • 18th Amendment (1920) Prohibition • 19th Amendment (1920) Suffrage

  10. New Opportunities • African Americans • Great Migration – jobs in the North • Race riots

  11. Suppressing Dissent • Espionage Act (1917) • Illegal to interfere with military recruiting; • or disclosure of information dealing with national defense

  12. Suppressing Dissent • Sedition Act (1918) • outlawed speaking out against the government; • or American involvement in World War I.

  13. Suppressing Dissent • Constitutional Issues: Schenckv. the United States (1919) • Supreme Court ruling limiting individual’s freedom of speech if words spoken constitute a “clear and present danger.” - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

  14. TOTAL WAR • Selective Service Act (1917) • Drafted men age 21 to 30 (later 18 to 45) • Put 3 million men into uniform

  15. TOTAL WAR • John J. “Black Jack” Pershing • Graduate of West Point • Fought in Spanish-American War • Led the American Expeditionary Force in WWI Europe. • Pursued Pancho Villa in Mexico, unsuccessfully.

  16. TOTAL WAR • Trench warfare in Argonne Forest • a.k.a. the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. • Part of the final Allied offensive of World War I

  17. TOTAL WAR • Alvin York • Led attack on German machine gun nest. • Captured 132 others. • Awarded the Medal of Honor. • Most decorated soldier of WWI.

  18. TOTAL WAR • New weapons and strategies

  19. Isolationism or Intervention? • Wilson’s 14 Points – Plan for Peace • Open diplomacy • Freedom of the seas • Removal of international trade barriers • Reduction in armaments • Self-determination for nationalities • Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France • Last point – create League of Nations

  20. Isolationism or Intervention? • League of Nations • International organization which the U.S. would play a large role • End to U.S. isolationism • U.S. participation required ratification of Treaty of Versailles

  21. Isolationism or Intervention? • Treaty of Versailles • Forced Germany to accept responsibility for causing the war • Pay reparations ($33 billion) • Germany loses all African colonies

  22. Isolationism or Intervention? Pre-WWI Post-WWI

  23. Isolationism or Intervention? • American Opposition to the Versailles Treaty • Henry Cabot Lodge & The Republican Senate • Wilson travels across America to win support; suffers a stroke (Sept. 1919) • Senate rejects Versailles Treaty (Jan. 1920)

  24. Start Study for Test!!!!

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