Unit 6:World War I and its Aftermath

Q1-Compare President Wilson’s moral diplomacy decisions to President Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” diplomacy.

Woodrow Wilson’s Diplomacy Moral Diplomacy and Spreading of Democracy

Mexican Revolution Madero to Huerta to Carranza to chasing Villa Big Stick compared to Moral Diplomacy

International Perspective on Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy Britain Latin-American

• Woodrow Wilson• Mexican Revolution• Porfirio Diaz• Francisco Madero• Huerta• Carranza• John J. Pershing• Pancho Villa

KEY TERMS

1914

Q2-Describe the events that led to the beginning of the “Great War,” explaining how the entangling alliances of Europe caused a minor dispute to become a major war.

Outbreak of World War 1 Alliance System 1870 Franco Prussian War

Naval Race 1898 Germany vs. Britain

Balkan Crisis Nationalism Southeastern Europe=Balkans

Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, and Slovenes South Slavs or Yugoslavs

A Continent Goes to War Gavrilo Princip and “Black Hand”

• Alliance system• Nationalism• Triple Alliance• Triple Entente• Gavrilo Princip• Franz Ferdinand• Schlieffen Plan

KEY TERMS

Q2 Continued….

German Plan Fails Schlieffen Plan Why there Plan fails Trench warfare

SCHLIEFFEN PLAN

Neutrality to War

America Neutrality Pro British Pro German Business Links Moving Toward War

British Blockade Unterseeboot

Sinking Lusitania Zimmerman Telegram Declaring War

Q3-Identify how the US was economically tied to the Allies before WW 1 describing the events that led to America joining the war on the Allied side.

• Unterseeboot• Lusitania• Sussex Pledge• Zimmerman telegram

KEY TERMS

Q4-Describe how the US created new agencies to mobilize the economy, draft soldiers, and build public support for the war.

The Home Front Building Up the Military

Selective Service Act 1917 African Americans in the War Women in the War

Organizing for the War War Industry Board

Bernard Baruch Responsibilities

Food and Fuel Board Herbert Hoover Responsibilities and Slogans

National War Labor Board William Howard Taft and Frank Walsh Responsibilities Minorities join the Effort

Committee on Public Information George Creel Responsibilities Opposition

• Selective Service Act• Field Marshall Henri

Petain• General John J. Pershing• War Industry Board• Food and Fuel Board• National War Labor

Board• Committee on Public

InformationKEY TERMS

Q4… CONTINUED…

Paying for the War Increasing money for

the war Civil Liberties

Curtailed Sedition Act Espionage Act

Climate of Suspicion Anti-German

sentiments Limits on Free

Speech• Schench v. United States

Q5-Analyze John J. Perishing character and explain the first actions Americans experience in the First World War.

Pershing and AEF Pershing’s Beliefs and Personality

Argonne Forest to Vosges Mountains Winning the War at Sea

Convoys Russia Leaves War

Vladimir Lenin Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

German Offensive Falters(Ludendorf) May-Cantingny June 1 Chateau-Thierry June 15 last attempt 2nd Battle of

Marne Battle of Argonne Forest

French Marshal Ferdinand Foch Saint-Mihiel September 26 1918

The War Ends 11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month

Armistice signed

Q5-Continued…

Q6-Explain how changes in technology affected the course of the war.

What were the effects of being gassed?

Excerpt from gas victim?

•Combat in World War I• Trench Warfare• No Man’s Land• Machine Guns• Artillery

•New Technology• Poison Gas• Tanks “Little Willy”• Airplanes and

Dogfights

Q7-Analyze President Wilson’s peace plan following World War 1 and reasons it was rejected by Congress.

Flawed Peace Big Four Wilson’s Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles 1919

Reparations War Guilt