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HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I International Relations and Expansion a The Security Physical Isolation Afforded the United States b The Relative Infancy of the United States c Factors Prompting International Expansion in the 1890s II A Splendid Little War a Results of the Spanish American War III Theodore Roosevelt a Life of Roosevelt b Roosevelt s Foreign Policy c Roosevelt s Domestic Policy d Later Elections IV Teller and Platt Amendments Outline of Current Lecture I Woodrow Wilson II World War I a Mobilization b Over Here c Bureaucrats Labor and the War d Minority Migration These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute III The Treaty of Versailles a Wilson and the Peace Conference b Wilson at Versailles c The Senate and the Treaty d Legacies of the War IV Trauma in the Wake of the War Current Lecture The Home Front WWI Versailles and the 14 Point Plan I Woodrow Wilson Born 1856 in Virginia and raised in Georgia right before and during the Civil War o In 1865 he saw Jefferson David in chains as a prisoner captured by the Union Couldn t read until he was 10 and teachers thought he was slow o Ends up he was dyslexic but eventually overcame it by doing shorthand during classes and rewriting it later on a typewriter Went to Princeton where he got hostility because he was from the south Went to the University of Virginia for law but dropped out after a year and a half out of boredom o Took the bar in Georgia and passed even though he didn t finish his classes o Got married about this time Began working in law but he still didn t like his profession so he decided to become a professor in history took PHD classes at John Hopkins o Taught at an all women s college but didn t like that either o Switched to Princeton to teach all boys school at the time where he became a very popular professor One day he woke up with a bloodshot eye and he couldn t see out of it o Ophthalmologist said that his eye would return back to normal but that extremely high blood pressure was what caused the blood vessel to burst o Cardiologist said he needed to retire and relax and don t do anything stressful Wilson took a year off to go to England with his wife as a sabbatical o When he returned his blood pressure was down so he went back to Princeton to teach Got chance to run for governor of New Jersey and won then chosen as candidate for president and he won in 1912 o Wilson s daughter said that the presidency would kill both her parents which is what happened 1913 Bank reform offered by Wilson the Federal Reserve act creating the Federal Reserve Board o Wilson created it to stop the constant 30 year recession that seemed to be always occurring o He thought controlling the money supply and interest rates would control the economy but the recessions still happened o The problem was thinking that the government could control the interest rates it should be the banks controlling it Mrs Wilson died Aug of 1914 putting Wilson into a depression o Began dating Edith Gulf a few months after his wife s death the press following him during his courting 1914 war started in Europe o A good book about WW I is The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 1916 Wilson ran for reelection claiming to keep the peace by not going to war Peace plank o Won the war by winning by California 1917 Wilson received the Zimmerman Letter from German foreign minister suggesting to Mexico that they should start a war with America trying to get their land back and to keep America occupied so they wouldn t enter the war o Letter intercepted by the British who gave it to America o Became Wilson s cause for entering the war II World War I a b Mobilization In May of 1917 the U S passed the Selective Service Act and inducted 2 8 million men o The U S lost 48 909 soldiers that were killed with losses to disease o The dead totaled more than the 230 000 wounded o A good movie about WW I is All Quiet on the Western Front The U S sent expeditionary forces to fight in the trenches in France that were infested by mud rats eat dead bodies bite you in your sleep crawl on you infested with diseases fleas lice where cold and rapid fire machine gun batteries kept men pinned down for days o New weapons such as poison gas chlorine gas mustard gas machineguns grenades airplanes and modified artillery shook the earth and many soldiers experienced shell shock 5 million Germans dead by the end of the war and 2 or 3 million British and French dead each Over Here The domestic problems Brought on by the War Committee on Public Information CPI o Led by George Creel who was an outspoken progressive journalist o Included patriotic recruiting techniques via newspaper film posters and provided a system of voluntary censorship with the press Anti German sentiment in the U S o liberty cabbage quit listening to Bach Beethoven and Brahms all German o People stopped speaking German and stopped naming children German names o Vigilantism among German American spread at an alarming rate Espionage Act of 1917 o Authorized sentences of up to 20 years for aiding the enemy obstructing recruitment or encouraging disloyalty o Allowed the censoring of U S mail Sedition Act 1918 o o c Imposed harsh penalties to anyone who was disloyal profane scurrilous or abusive language against the U S government The harassment and eventual Arrest of Socialist party leaders Eugene V Debs gave a speech and was indicted and jailed on the Espionage Act Bureaucrats Labor and the war Bureaucrats o The War Industries Board prioritized price fixed and oversaw and allocated raw materials to satisfy wartime production and was led by Bernard M Baruch o Future President Herbert Hoover headed a Food Administration that encouraged folks to cut down on their eating and plant more gardens victory gardens at home it also rationed and distributed foodstuffs Herbert Hoover known as international hero for organizing food relief for the Europeans o The government also regulated items such as fuel railroads shipping foreign trade and telephones Labor o The war mobilized labor unions that created a partnership with the government o Samuel Gompers eventually served on Wilson s Council of National Defense that unified labor and promoted peace and unity in the workforce o At the same time Wilson adopted many of the work related social reforms o The War Labor Board standardized wages hours and


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