01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Panama Canal Zone, 1905 Russian Revolution
13 May 2018
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Chapter 19 - Safe for Democracy: The United States and
World War I, 1916–1920
1. An era of intervention
1. Theodore Roosevelt and Roosevelt Corollary
1. Panama
1. U.S.-backed separation of Panama from Colombia
2. U.S. acquisition of Panama Canal Zone
3. Construction of Panama Canal
2. Dominican Republic
3. Cuba
2. William Howard Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
1. Nicaragua
2. Honduras
3. Dominican Republic
3. Woodrow Wilson and "moral imperialism"
1. Haiti
2. Dominican Republic
3. Mexico
1. Mexican Revolution under leadership of Francisco
Madero
2. Assassination of Madero and outbreak of Civil War
3. Wilson dispatch of troops, skirmishes with Pancho
Villa
2. America and the Great War
1. Outbreak of European war
1. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2. Allied Powers (Britain, France, Russia, Japan) versus
Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman
Empire)
3. Protracted, bloody stalemate
2. Implications of European war
1. Undermining of faith in human progress and reason
2. Indication of power of nationalism in modern world
3. American response
1. Mixed sentiments
1. Sympathy for Allied Powers
1. British roots
2. Association of Britain with democracy, Germany
with tyranny
2. Opposition to Allied Powers, and/or U.S. involvement
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1. German, Irish, Russian (anti-czarist) roots
2. Antiwar feminists, pacifists, social reformers
2. The road to American involvement
1. Initial declaration of neutrality
2. British and German blockades
3. American business ties to Britain
4. Sinking of Lusitania
5. "Preparedness" policy
6. German suspension of submarine warfare against
neutrals
7. Reelection of Wilson; "He Kept Us Out of War"
8. German resumption of open submarine warfare
9. Zimmerman Note
10. First Russian Revolution (Menshevik);
overthrow of czar
11. American declaration of war against Germany
4. From American entry to Armistice
1. Second Russian Revolution (Bolshevik)
1. Vladimir Lenin's break with Allies
2. Withdrawal of Russia from war
2. Wilson's Fourteen Points
3. Defeat of German advance; Allied counteroffensive
4. German surrender
3. The war at home
1. Perceived prospects for fulfillment of Progressive vision
1. Economic rationalization
2. Spirit of national unity and purpose
3. Social justice
2. Expansion of federal powers
1. Military conscription
2. Economic intervention
1. Areas
1. War production (War Industries Board)
2. National transportation (Railroad
Administration)
3. Coal and oil (Fuel Administration)
4. Farming and food preparation (Food
Administration)
5. Labor relations (National War Labor Board)
2. Varied degrees of intervention
1. Coordination of overall war production (WIB)
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