HIST 151 Chapter 22 World War I The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad 1914 1920 Outline of Last Lecture I Triangle Shirtwaist Fire II Booker T Washington W E B DuBois NAACP III Plessy v Ferguson Outline of Current Lecture I Woodrow Wilson II Causes of the War III U Boat and the Lusitania IV Zimmerman Note V A E F VI Espionage and Sedition Acts VII C I P War Industries Board VIII Wilson s 14 Points Current Lecture Woodrow Wilson PhD recipient university president and progressive Elected first term 1912 second term 1916 Anti War Second term campaign slogan He kept us out of war Causes of the war WWI single most influential event of 20th century Starts in 1914 with the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand of the AustroHungarian Empire by Serbia Austria Hungary then declares war on Serbia Since nearly 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 every country had promised to fight for and with certain countries if they should ever go to war all allies to Austria Hungary were dragged into the war and vice versa This system was called the powder keg alliances between many overlapping spheres of influence in Europe and the assassination was the match that lit the gun powder keg U Boat and the Lusitania U Boats are weaponized submarines used by the Central Powers Germany and AustriaHungary Primarily attacked French and English Allies ships Lusitania British ship flying civilian flags carrying weapons attacked by a U Boat 123 American lives lost Attacked in 1915 Zimmerman Note Germany tries to prompt the president of Mexico to wage war with the US Promises German help in securing land seceded to America in Mexican American War Telegram intercepted by British officer before Mexico gets the message Straw that breaks the camel s back and brings USA into the war A E F American Expeditionary Forces Allows U S to enter war as an associated power and not an ally Allows the U S keep some neutrality U S entry into war turns the tide of the war As the U S enters Russia is exiting to deal with civil war in its own country Espionage and Sedition Acts suspended human rights such as freedom of speech habeas corpus made it illegal to speak against the war threatened deportation to Russia for those who disobeyed desperate times call for desperate measures C I P War Industries Board The C I P was intended to boost moral o sponsored carnivals movies and other fun events to support the war o propaganda The War Industries Board wanted mass produced war supplies made efficiently and to coordinate the purchase of such war supplies Wilson s 14 points Wilson s plan to end the war Intended to make sure another global conflict doesn t happen again Wilson not very well supported Eventually all 14 points make it into Treaty of Versailles which ended the war and forced Germany to pay reparation to Allied countries Four specific points o Freedom of the seas o Open Treaties openly arrived at o Create a League of Nations precursor to UN o Self determination for all nations end all colonization