BY: ELIZABETH AND ED

WE WILL HAVE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT THE SLIDES.

WWI FROM THE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

QUESTION:

PRESIDENT DURING WAR:

WHO AGAINST WHO?

ALLIANCE VS CENTRAL POWERS

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QUESTION:

(THE ALLIES)

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(ALSO PORTO RICO AND HAWAII)

NEUTRAL COUNTRIES

IN THE BEGINNING NEUTRAL

• America was neutral due to the Neutrality Acts
• It didn't want to get involved in a costly war
• America was a good distance from the actual war
• Had relations with many places in Europe such as Germany

REASONS FOR GETTING INVOLVED

• German U-boats were sink passenger ships
• Some of the ships were American ships
• Zimmerman Telegraph incident
• (Germany promised American land to Mexico if it joined the war)

AMERICANS WERE EFFECTED BY:

• rationing supplies and food
• Propaganda used for political support (calling it the Great War)
• Overseas fighting (leading to deaths and mental illnesses)
• It was the "War to end all wars"
• economic affect (gov spending money for war- Econ up)

RATIONING DUE TO PROPAGANDA

• FOOD (WHEATLESS WEDNESDAYS AND MEATLESS MONDAYS)
• GAS (SO THAT THE TANKS, AIRPLANES, AND SHIPS WOULD HAVE ENOUGH)
• Had a committed on public opinion= tried to keep the public for the war
• George Creel ="Do your bit for the war"
• The committee Organized the propaganda and came up with slogans

JOBS CHANGED

• Women took over jobs of men since a lot of men went overseas
• Mexican immigrants came over to help with crops (mainly in CA)
• African Americans moved north for new jobs and escape poverty
• Women worked as nurses overseas in war zones
• African Americas had separate military quadrants in the war

PROPAGANDA PUSHED MANY WOMEN INTO WAR TIME JOBS

• found in Vera Brittain's brilliant book of memoirs Testament of Youth (1933)
• Her stories talk about the grueling work, and terrible working conditions
• The girls lived in cold rooms (if there were rooms available)
• Vera joined the group out of sympathy for her fiancé when he was drafted
• Also said the girls were under constant suspicion of possibly being spies

AN ALL WOMAN NAVY SQUAD

QUESTION:

ANSWER:

FIGHTING IN THE WAR...

• Americans were effected by the weaponry used:
• Guns, airplanes, gas, blimps, tanks, ships, and U-boats, long range artillery
• December 7, 1917 is when America officially entered the war
• Trench warfare was used
• In between trenches was a place called no man's land

TRENCH WARFARE

ARTHUR EMPEY

• He is an American from New Jersey
• Was upset when America didn't immediately join the war
• Left America to join British standing army (technically illegal)
• Was in trench warfare and had gas bombs dropped on his group
• "I couldn't get the mask on fast enough to stop the burning"

ARTHUR EMPEY

• He passed out but was rescued
• After he gained consciousness he helped burry friends
• Friends in no man's land were not buried
• "When it comes to no man's land friend and foe are treated alike"
• Was in hospital for 3 months

CASUALTIES

• America suffered less far less than other countries
• The fighting was in the other countries so they had more death
• America was relatively separated from the war
• America had an easier time after the war because no reconstruction
• Russia lost the most people

CASUALTIES

• America= 350,000
• Russia= 9.15 million
• Germany= 7.1 million
• Total allies= 22 million
• Total central= 15 million

PERSONAL EFFECTS

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• Selective Service Act (1917)= the draft
• 2.8 million draftees drafter, 2.9 million volunteers
• 2 million sent to Europe
• African Americans participated in Europe
• (Very few were officers)

WARTIME CIVIL LIBERTIES

• Civil liberties were challenged during war
• Espionage and Sedition Acts=
• imprison people who are disloyal or abusive to war effort
• Schenck vs United States (1919)=
• limited free speech because of a "have a clear and present danger"

REVIEW QUESTIONS

WHAT WAS ONE OF TWO

A: THE GREAT WAR

NAME TWO REASONS

COSTLY, LONG DISTANCE, RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS

WHO HAD THE MOST AND

RUSSIA HAD THE MOST CASUALTIES.

NAME ONE OF THE

WOODROW WILSON, VERA BRITTIAN,

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PICTURES FROM PIC COLLAGE AND HAKU DECK