Why did the USA enter the Great War on the side of Great Britain and the Allies? What were the domestic consequences of the war? Was it worth it?

1. World War I
& the Red Scare

3. TRIPLE
ALLIANCE
TRIPLE
ENTENTE

4. CENTRAL
POWERS
ALLIED
POWERS

5. 1914 - 1918

6. APRIL 6th, 1917

7. Knightsbridge, 1919

8. Why did the United States
enter World War I… on the
side of Great Britain?

9. Why did the United States
ente…on the side of Great
Britain and the Allies?

10. Standard View
The Lusitania

11. deaths = 1198

12. deaths = 1128

13. 4,200,000

14. OTHER REASONS?

15. 1) Cultural Ties

16. 80%

17. 2) Enhanced U.S.
World Role

18. 3) Economic

19. 4x

20. 1914: $753 million

21. 1916: $3 billion

23. $27 million

24. $2.3 billion
$27 million

25. 4) Practicalities of
Naval Warfare

26. British Blockade
U-Boat Blockade

27. “rules of war”

28. Undeclared
submarine warfare

29. OPPOSITION

30. Traditional Suspicion

31. Traditional Suspicion
Washington’s Farewell Address
“Why, by interweaving our destiny with
that of any part of Europe, entangle our
peace and prosperity in the toils of
European ambition, rivalship, interest,
humor or caprice? It is our true policy to
steer clear of permanent alliances with any
portion of the foreign world…” (1796)

32. Congress
373-50

33. “Dough-boys”
300,000 / 300,000

34. Farmers

35. “Where The Fate Of The War Rests”
“Upon the farmers of this country,
therefore, in large measure rests the fate of
the war and the fate of the nations. May
the nation not count upon them to omit no
step that will increase the production of
their land or that will bring about the most
effectual cooperation in the sale and
distribution of their products?”

36. Socialists
1920: >900,000

37. Immigrants

38. Immigrants

39. APATHY?

40. “Symbolic Politics”

41. Good vs Evil

42. “Hate the Hun Campaign”

48. SAUERKRAUT

49. “LIBERTY
CABBAGE”

50. HAMBURGER

51. “LIBERTY
STEAK”

53. “LIBERTY
MEASLES”

55. ANTI-RADICAL

56. Espionage and
Sedition Acts
1917-1918

57. 6000/ 1500

58. “RED” EMMA GOLDMAN

59. 2 years >>>

60. WALTER MATHEY

62. Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON
“A Christian can take no part in the war.”

63. Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON
> 15 years

64. JOHN WHITE

65. JOHN WHITE
“[The] murder of innocent
women and children by
German soldiers was no
worse than what the
United States’ soldiers
did in the Philippines.”

66. JOHN WHITE
> 21 months

67. “BIG BILL”
HAYWOOD >>> IWW

68. “BIG BILL”
HAYWOOD >>> 30 YEARS

70. “RED SUMMER”
1919

72. Strikes, Prohibition,
Suffrage, Race Riots,
Bombings, Influenza

73. A. Mitchell
“Palmer Raids” >>> 1919-20

76. A. Mitchell
“Palmer Raids”
“[The] blaze of revolution
[was] eating its way into the
homes of the American
workmen, its sharp tongues
of revolutionary heat…
licking the altars of the
churches, leaping into the
belfry of the school bell,
crawling into the sacred
corners of American homes,
burning up the foundations
of society.”

77. May 1, 1920?

78. May 1, 1920?