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American History
WWI
Woodrow Wilson’s Diplomacy
• Opposed Imperialism • Promoted democracy • Mexican Revolution– 1884-1911 Porfirio Diaz– 1911 Francisco Madero– 1912 General Victoriano Huerta– 1914 Venustino Carranza
• Pancho Villa
Causes of WWI
• Alliance System– German Empire– Triple Alliance • Germany, Italy, & Austria- Hungary • Franco-Russian Alliance
• Naval Race– Great Britain & Germany
– “entente cordial” Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia)
European Alliances WWI
Causes of WWI
• Balkan Crisis – Nationalism• Intense pride-willing to go to war to expand their
nation at the expense of others
• Self-determination• People should have their own country• Serbia
– Russian supported– Annexation of Bosnia
• Franz Ferdinand
The Beginning
• Triple Entente Allies France, Russian, Great Britain (Italy in 1915)
• Triple Alliance Central Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire & Bulgaria
• United States “We must be impartial in thought as well as action.” Woodrow Wilson
Europe on the eve of World War I, 1914
United States Involvement • People takes sides– Pro British “international balance of power”
• Propaganda
U.S. Involvement • British blockade– Mines in the North Sea– German U-boats– May 7, 1915 Lusitania
• “too proud to fight”– Sussex Pledge
• Promise – January 1917
• Zimmermann telegram• Germany to Mexico
– Feb 3-March 21• 6 ships sank
– April 4 • America is at war