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Germany, as Austria's ally, declares war against Russia
What is berlin, August 1?
In WW1, the trouble for the United States arose as the belligerent powers tried to stop supplies from reaching the enemy.
What is Neutrality?
The first major crisis challenging U.S neutrality occurred on May 7, 1915 when German torpedoes hit and sank a British passenger liner, the Lusitania?
What is the Lusitania crisis?
Soon after the outbreak of the war, the economy rebounded in part because of orders for war supplies from the British and the French.
What are the economic links with Britain and France?
If Wilson's polices favored Britain, so did the attitudes of most Americans.
What is Public opinion?
After the Lusitania crisis, a small but vocal minority of influential Republicans from the East including Theodore Roosevelt argued for the U.S. entry into the war against Germany.
What is the War Debate?
The military clamored for preparedness greater defense expenditures soon after the European war broke out.
What is preparedness?
President Wilson was well aware that, as a democrat, he had won the election to the presidency in 1912 only because of the split in Republican ranks between Taft conservatives and Roosevelt Progressives.
What was the election of 1916
This barrier to U.S. participation was suddenly removed on March 15, when Russian revolutionaries overthrew the czar's government and proclaimed a republic.
What was the Russian Revolution?
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes concluded that the right to free speech could be limited when it represented a "clear and present danger" to the public safety.
What is the Case of Scheck v. United States?
In April 1917, only one month after being sworn into office a second time, President Wilson went before Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Germany.
What was the Decision for War?
Wilson still hesitated, but a series of events in March 1917 as well as the president's hopes for arranging a permanent peace in Europe convinced him that U.S. participation in the war was now unavoidable.
What is Immediate Causes?
The Zimmermann Telegram aroused the nationalist anger of the American People and Convinced Wilson that Germany fully expected a war with the United States,
What did the The Zimmermann Telegram?
On April 2, 1917, President Wilson stood before a special session of senators and representatives and solemnly asked Congress to recognize that a state of war existed between Germany and the United States.
What was the declaration of war?
To meet this need, Secretary of War Newton D. Barker devised a "selective service" system to conscript (draft) men into the military.
What was the Selective Service Act?
Almost 400,000 African Americans served in WW1 in segregated units.
Who are African Americans?
Job opportunities in wartime America, together with the upheavals of the revolution in Mexico, caused thousands of Mexicans to cross the border to work in agriculture and mining. African Americans also took advantage of job opportunities opened up by the war and migrated north.
What are the Effects on American Society for Migration of Mexicans and African Americans?
The first U.S. troops to see action were used to plug weaknesses in the the French and British lines, but by the summer of 1918, as American Forces arrived by the hundreds of thousands, the AEF assumed independent responsibility for one segment of the Western Front.
What is the American Expedition Force?
The peace conference following the armistice took place in the palace of Versailles outside of Paris, beginning in January 1919.
what are the treaty of Versailles?
Americans had trouble from the patriotic fervor of wartime to the economic and social stresses of postwar uncertainties.
What are Postwar Problems?
As men were drafted into the military, the jobs they vacated were often taken by women, thousands of whom entered the workforce for the first time.
What are the Effects on American Society for women?
The U.S. Navy also implemented a convoy system of armed escorts for groups of merchant ships.
What are the Naval Operations?
Germany had to return the regions of Alsace and Lorraine to France, and evacuate Belgium in the west and Romania and Serbia in the east.
What are the fourteen points?
Returning to the United States, President Wilson had to approval of two thirds of he Senate for all parts of the Treaty of Versailles, including the League of Nations covenant.
What is the Battle for Ratification?
In a nation that valued free enterprise and rugged individualism, a large part of the American public regarded unions with distrust.
What is labor conflict?