Give Me Liberty Learning Objective

This held that the United States had the right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere- a significant expansion of Monroe's pledge to defend the hemisphere against European intervention. US involvement in the canal showed the diplomatic power of the US, and Roosevelt's desire to "civilize" other countries.

Wilson sent troops to Mexico to influence the government there, which led to several years of fighting until a failed attempt to arrest the leader of the Mexican troops.Mexico served as a warning to Wilson that influencing other countries might be more difficult than he thought.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set in motion a chain of events that led to the war, mostly due to Europe's interlocking alliances a the time.

The Allies consisted of Britain, France, Russia, and Japan. The Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

In May 1916, Germany announced the suspension of submarine warfare against noncombatants. In January 1917 Woodrow Wilson called for a "peace without victory" in Europe that led to Germany reinstating submarine warfare and sinking several American vessels.

A British passenger liner, which was also carrying arms and munitions, that was sunk by a German submarine. More than 1,000 lives were lost, including 139 American.

March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary, addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's proximity to the US). In return, Germany would give back Tex, NM, Arizona etc to Mexico.

Among the key principles were self-determination for all nations, freedom of the seas, free trade, open diplomacy (an end to secret treaties), the readjustment of colonial claims with colonized people given "equal weight" in deciding their futures, and the creation of a "general association of nations" to preserve the peace.

Supported: Progressive intellectuals, reformers, labor leaders, and native born socialists Opposed: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the bulk of the socialist party.

In 1917 the Wilson administration created the CPI to explain to Americans and the world "the cause that compelled America to take arms in defense of its liberties and free institutions." The CPI used pamphlets, posters, newspaper ads, motion pictures, and "Four-Minute Men" who delivered talks across the country in multiple languages, in their effort to shape public opinion.

Many members of NWP were of a new generation of college educated activists, and often believed that if the US was fighting for democracy abroad, then it should be at home too. Alice Paul encouraged more militant strategies than previous advocates, that often included arrests, imprisonments, and vigorous denunciations of a male dominated political system.

Employers- hoped it would create a more disciplined work forceUrban Reformers- believed it would promote a more orderly city environment and undermine urban political machinesWomen reformers- hoped it would protect women and children from men who engaged in domestic violence while drunkProtestants- saw it as a way to impose american values on immigrants

Espionage Act- prohibited not only spying and interfering with the draft but also "false statements" that might impede military successSedition Act- made it a crime to make spoken or printed statements that intended to cast "contempt, scorn, or disrepute" on the "form of government"Over 2000 persons were charged, and over half were convicted.

Police and judicial action, private vigilante groups, and public hysteria compromised the civil liberties of many Americans who disagreed with Wilson's war policies. Attorney General Gregory supported the work of the American Protective League (APL), which was one of the many patriotic associations that sprang up to support the war, and in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identify antiwar organizations and those it deemed slackers, spies, or draft dodgers. The APL curbed dissent at home by compelling German-Americans to sign a pledge of allegiance, as well as by conducting extra-governmental surveillance on pro-German activities and organizations such as unions.Source: Boundless.

"Civil Liberties in Wartime." Boundless U.S. History Boundless, 14 Nov. 2016. Retrieved 15 Feb.

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People beleived that there were genetic differences between different groups of people, like intelligence, which was used as grounds for excluding groups from being part of America.

They were treated harshly with propaganda, movies, and posters. Public schools stopped teaching German and stopped playing music by German musicians.

They were pressured to prove their loyalty to America by condemning the German government and to stop speaking and reading German. Harassed, beaten, and even killed.

Founded by WEB Du Bois. Wanted "every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil, and social..

." Often used court cases to fight their cause.

Wartime repression of dissent continued after WWI, and reached its peak during the Red Scare, a short lived but intense period of political intolerance inspired by the post war strike wave and the social tensions and fears generated by the Russian Revolution.

Convinced that episodes like the steel strike were part of a worldwide communist conspiracy, Attorney General A.

Mitchell Palmer dispatched federal agents to raid offices of radical and labor organizations throughout the country. More than 5,000 were arrested, many without warrant and held without charge.

Many Europeans accepted and supported Wilson's ideas about equality of nations and democracy. Outside of Europe, his 14 point did not gain much traction, and often were considered to be giving dangerous thoughts to certain groups. At the Versailles Peace Conference, he was able to establish the League of Nations, but other wise was not as adept a negotiator as his British and French counterparts.

Germany was forced to pay a lot of money to the war's victims. Germany was forced to take full responsibility for the conflict. They were forced to limit the size of their military. Had to return conquered lands to France and Russia. Other German lands were taken to form Poland, and German colonies around the world were given to various world powers.

was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.the US did not join this but they created it