Chapter 25: America And The Great War
Chapter Outline
- Wilson and foreign affairs
- Inexperience and idealism
- Intervention in Mexico
- Díaz overthrown in revolution
- Nonrecognition of the Huerta government
- Invasion at Veracruz
- Carranza’s government
- The pursuit of Pancho Villa
- Problems in Latin America
- Dollar diplomacy
- Marines
- America’s uneasy neutrality
- Outbreak of the war
- Unprecedented war
- Scope of fighting
- Horrors of war
- Initial American response
- Declaration of neutrality
- Attitudes of first- and second-generation immigrants
- Views of other American groups
- Extension of economic credit to the Allies
- Problems of neutrality
- Conflicts over neutral rights at sea
- German use of submarines
- Sinking of the Lusitania
- American protests
- Bryan’s resignation
- Arabic pledge
- Debate over preparedness
- Demands for stronger army and navy
- Progressives and pacifists
- National Defense Act of 1916
- Move for a stronger navy
- Revenue Act of 1916
- Election of 1916
- Republicans nominated
- Democratic program
- Issues of the campaign
- Results of the election
- Last efforts for peace
- Wilson’s offer to mediate
- Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare
- Diplomatic break with Germany
- Bombshells of March 1917
- Zimmerman Telegram
- Russian Revolution
- U.S. entry into the war
- Wilson’s call for war
- Explanations for U.S. entry into the war
- America’s early role
- Expanding the navy
- Loans to allies
- Building a fighting force
- First troops to France
- Conscription
- Mobilizing the home front
- Regulating the economy
- Government agencies
- War Industries Board
- Wartime labor force
- Blacks
- Mexican Americans
- Women
- War propaganda
- Civil liberties in the war
- Popular disdain for all things German
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Terms of the acts
- Prosecutions
- Impact of the acts
- Schenck v. United States
- The American role in the war
- Allies’ situation
- Western front
- German offensives
- American offensives
- Russian intervention
- The Fourteen Points
- Origins
- Content
- Purposes
- Responses
- Terms of the armistice
- Costs of war
- The fight for the peace
- Wilson’s role
- Decision to attend the peace conference
- Effects of congressional elections of 1918
- Wilson’s reception in Europe
- Structure of the conference
- Emphasis on the League of Nations
- Article X of the charter
- Machinery of the League
- Early warning from Lodge
- Concessions to French
- Compromises on national self-determination
- The agreement for reparations
- Obtaining the German signature
- Wilson’s loss at home
- Support for the peace
- Lodge’s reaction
- Opponents of the treaty
- Wilson’s speaking tour
- Wilson’s stroke
- Failure of the Senate votes
- Formal ending of the war
- Conversion to peace
- Spanish flu epidemic
- Labor unrest
- Race riots
- The Red Scare
- Fear of radicals
- Bombs in the mail
- Deportation of aliens
- Evaporation of the Red Scare
- Legacy of the Red Scare
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