Unit 2: Moving to the World Stage - America from 1900 to
1940 |
We will cover
these topics in class in this order:
1909 |
Treaties trade during war and
issues for new Secretary of State for Wilson, William Jennings Bryan—and later |
1914 |
Meaning of neutrality (as in
Neutrality Proclamation), blockade (mines), Colonel House |
1915+ |
Loans, reality of; body count |
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Submarine, traditions and this technology (plus trench, convoy,
P.R., war bonds) |
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The Lusitania – word manifest |
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World organization movement |
1916 |
Germany’s promise to warn
passenger vessels 1st plus demands for rules of international law |
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Wilson’s action - analogy |
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Campaign shift |
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Wilson’s actions re the war and
re the Senate (food quotation) |
1917 |
Zimmerman note, role of fronts |
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Russian Revolution |
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Warren G. Harding
and “normalcy”
- Foreign: Washington Conference and disarmament
- Politics: Teapot Dome
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Calvin
Coolidge
- Foreign: Reparations debt cycle (The loans from U.S. bankers to the Allies haunts
us.)
- Politics: tax reduction for the rich; veto of aid to farmers, veto (but
overridden) of Bonus (paid insurance) for vets
NOTE: chooses not to run again in 1928
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