Chapter 14 War Is The Health of The State -Sharon Friedman

1. Chapter 14War Is The Health of The State-Sharon Friedman

2. “On May 7, 1915, during World War 1, almost 1,200 people were killed when the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. - The United States now had its pretense to enter the war in 1917. The attack resulted in widespread support for the United States' entry into WW1. “

3. Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States during and three years after the First World War. Wilson called WW1, “The war to end all wars.” He stated that our entrance into the war was, “to make the war safe for democracy.”

4. “George Creel was the United States government’s official propagandist. He headed the committee on public information whose purpose was to persuade Americans that the war was right. “

5. “A conscientious objector is "a person who, on the grounds of conscience, resists the authority of the state to compel military service" 65,000 men during World War 1, refused to fight on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religious beliefs.”

6. “Financier Bernard Baruch headed the War Industries Board, the most powerful of the wartime government agencies. Bankers, railroad men, and industrialists dominated these agencies.”

7. Espionage Act of 1917:“A Unites States federal law having harsh penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable Activities. Banned “rebellious” newspapers, magazines, and other printed materials from the mail. It was intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of U.S. enemies during wartime.”

8. Sacco & Vanzetti- Anarchist movement“Both adhered to a strain of anarchism that advocated relentless warfare against a violent and oppressive government. They were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree Massachusetts, United States in 1920.”

9. “By 1925, the case had drawn worldwide attention. As details of the trial and the men's suspected innocence became known, Sacco and Vanzetti became the center of one of the largest Cause célèbres in modern history.”

10. Image 6: “The American Protective League was a World War I-era private organization that along with federal police like the Bureau of Investigation worked in support of the anti German Empire movement and against anti-war citizens and organizations. This represents a very sad part of American history. This is about as close as the US government ever came to sanctioning vigilantism. Formed by A.M. Briggs, a wealthy Chicago businessman, at its height of power the APL had 250,000 members in 600 cities.”

11. “These two books are fictionalized accounts of the horrors of World War 1. Each are anti-war novels. Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.”

12. “In 1914, a serious recession had begun in the United States. The war opened during a period of hard times, businesses throughout the country were depressed and unemployment was serious. By 1915, war orders for the allies, had stimulated the economy. By April 1917, more than 2 billion dollars worth of goods had been sold to the allies. America became bound up with the allies in a faithful union of war and prosperity.”

13. “In the summer of 1916, during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, a suitcase bomb exploded killing ten and wounding forty more. Two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, were convicted in separate trials and sentenced to be hanged.”

14. “Throughout the war millions of soldiers experienced and endured the horrors of trench warfare. The trenches were always full of stagnant water and mud. Sometimes they would collapse burying the soldiers inside alive. Tens of thousands of rats swarmed through the trench systems, biting sleepers, attacking the wounded, and gnawing on the dead. Corpses of men and horses often laid for days before they could be buried adding to the stench and flies.”

15. Reference PageZinn, Howard. A people's history of the United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classic, 2005. Print.