2. ▪ Militarism- Build up of armies and navies
▪ Alliances- Nations organized against each other
▪ Imperialism- Competition for markets and colonies
▪ Nationalism- Belief your country is the best
 ASSASSINATION OF
ARCHDUKE FERDINAND

4.  1914 a man from Serbia killed Austria-
Hungarian heir to throne Archduke Ferdinand
 CENTRAL POWERS - Austria-Hungary;
Germany; Bulgaria; Ottoman Empire
 ALLIED POWERS- Serbia; Russia; France
Great Britain

7.  German-American and Irish-American
immigrants wanted US to back Central
Powers
 Many Americans disliked autocratic leader in
Germany
 America remained neutral

9.  December 1914 National Security
League
 train men for combat
 make sure people are ready for war
 make sure people are patriotic

10. Even though the US proclaimed its
neutrality it began to trade more
and more with Allied powers.
Germany warned US it would use its
U-Boats to sink American ships
transporting ammunition

12. U-Boat = submarines
May 7,1915 Germans sink British
passenger liner Lusitania
 *Cause of American Entrance Into War
Killed 1,200 passengers 128
Americans

16.  On May 24,1916 Germans sink French
passenger ship Sussex
 US threatened to cut off diplomatic
relations with Germany if they didn’t
stop submarine warfare

18.  Britain intercepts a telegram from
Arthur Zimmermann, Germany’s foreign
secretary to Mexico
 Telegram offers Mexico help if they fight
the United States

26. Liberty Bonds were sold to pay for
war
People could redeem the bonds
after war with interest
$20 Billion was raised

29.  With less immigrants coming to
America factories turned to African
Americans and Mexican Americans to
work
 500,000 African Americans left the
South for Northern cities

30. 400,000 women joined the
workforce
1918 Congress proposes the
Suffrage Amendment
August 24,1920 Amendment
becomes law

34.  People began to distrust anything
related to Germany
 Changed German sounding names,
burned books
 Attacked and lynched people of German
ancestry

35.  Espionage Act of 1917
 Crime to interfere with draft
 Crime to mail “treasonous” materials
 Sedition Act of 1918
 Crime to say or publish anything bad about the
government, constitution, flag, or military

36.  Supreme Court rules free speech can be
restricted during wartime
 Clear and present danger
 “fire” in a movie theater

37.  1917 Russian Revolution
 Communist state established
 Russia out of war
 Fear communism will sweep through US

39.  November 1918 war ends
 Allies win
 Paris Peace Conference Jan. 1919
 Meeting of world leaders to discuss peace