HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Unilateralism, Hiram Johnson, Pushback
14 Mar 2016
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Racial and symbolic rhetoric in media and war propaganda, did not apply to all. Looking at people that they are diferent, redirect naionalism, colonialist terms. Making them less human: war mobilizaion efort. Big agencies in the government with new power and money for the war. The us and the postwar world order: wilsonian internaionalism and its discontents, push into new naion-hood, pushback against naion (ailiaions with anarchism, radicalism of labour movement, people of internaional workers) Provided ideological cement to demoralized allied war efort: gave a just reason for americans to switch for peace to war-ime mobilizaion. In these 14 points, wilson imagined that america would be the one to push fourth these points. Widely distributed internaionally as propaganda: cpi agency distance 75m copies of us war aim pamphlets in several languages, unleased democraic enthusiasm that was then hard to control. People imagined internaional democracy was going to change: first world-wide propaganda efort.
