World War I
Causes

​M.A.N.I.A.

Militarism
Nationalism
Alliances
Imperialism
Assassination of the Arch Duke of Austria

World War I

The US did not want to get involved with the War in Europe. (Isolationism)

US wanted to be able to trade with Europe without taking sides even after Germany sank the Lusitania. neutrality
Germany approached Mexico to join the war Zimmerman Telegram.
Germany broke the Sussex Pledge and resumed Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

US enters WW I(Mobilization)

Patriotism Based
War Bonds
Victory Gardens
Anti-German Sentiment

​ Homefront

Wartime Industry Board

​Women in Industry
"Draft"-Selective Service Act
Creel Committee of Public Information(War Propaganda)
Food Administration

​US Government

World War 1

Key West Submarine Base
Pencecola Flight Schools
Tampa and Jacksonville Shipyards
Thousands Enlisted in Military
Food Production-beef, vegtables, fruit

​Florida Connection

Trench Warfare

Created a Stalemate (stuck in one place)

​Soliders fought, ate, slept, lived in a hole surrounded by barbed wire, disease and death.

Trenches were wet, dirty, rat infested.

WW I Technology

Convoy System
Tanks
Posion Gas
Machine Guns
Planes
Submarines

WW I Technology

To combat
Unrestricted
Submarine
Warfare, US sent
commercial ships
with a military escort
Convoy System

​The US wanted nothing more to do with war.


As a nation we wanted to get back to the good old days.

Treaty of Versailles
War ended in a draw. Armistice

Terms:
Germany had to pay for starting the war.
(Reperations)

​President Woodrow Wilson supported a plan called the League of Nations. There were 14 points to end war, Article X (10) triggered an alliance clause. The 14 Point Plan never made it though Congress. Without US support The League of Nations eventually dissolved.

​Germany

American Expeditionary Forces in Europe
known as "doughboys"

Came Home to
Changing Times

​Armistice Day 11/11/1918
Black and White Soldiers