CAS IR 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Expeditionary Forces, Craiglockhart Hydropathic, Sigmund Freud
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Lecture 4: the great war: the final phase, 1917-18. The military dictatorship in berlin: germany, field marshal paul von hindenburg, general erich ludendorff, united states (neutral, president woodrow wilson. Kept us out of war : wilson was reelected by a narrow margin in november 1916 on the slogan: he. American neutrality and intervention: the economic dimension, the british blockade cuts germany off, expands the definition contraband , german unterseeboot ( under sea boat, or u-boat ) awaiting assignments in the. Atlantic: the cunard liner lusitania , sunk off the coast of ireland on may 7, 1915, 1,198 killed, including over 115 americans, political and ethnic considerations (american populations, german-american was the largest population in america. Irish taken prisoners after the rising is crushed, and leaders of the revolt are executed, inflaming irish-american opinion: jewish-americans (third largest population in america): bitter memories of pogroms in.