US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions
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World War I, 1914-1918, | |||
US: 1917-18 | |||
Neutrality | |||
“Foreign War” | |||
Protest/ dissent | |||
Ensuring Peace - American neutrality = official US policy at beginning of the European war | |||
- English blockade of US ports to block shipments to Germany | |||
> Germany responded with U-Boats (submarine) attacks on ships supplying Great Britain | |||
- Zimmerman telegram: German ambassador to Mexico tried to get Mexico to declare war on U.S.; his telegraph was intercepted by British and sparked anti-German outrage in U.S. | |||
- Espionage Act, 1917, Sedition Act , 1918: laws prohibiting dissent against U.S. (reminiscent of Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798) | |||
- Selective Service Act of 1917: authorized draft of soldiers | |||
- Spanish Flu, 1917-18: massive pandemic exacerbated by wartime preparations with concentrations of young solders | |||
- Committee on Public Information (CPI) ran anti-German and anti-Russian propaganda during the war | |||
- Worldwide attempts to prevent future wars: | |||
> Washington Conference (limiting arms stockpiling) | |||
> Kellogg-Briand Pact: international agreement to outlaw war | |||
U.S. | |||
Prohibition, Red Scare | |||
Communist Revolution in Russia | |||
Radicalism in US (bombs, strikes) - 18th Amendment put into law the long temperance fight to ban alcohol | |||
- Red Scare: socialists and anti-war radicals demonstrated and led strikes during the War, which they saw as a capitalist enterprise | |||
> many radical leaders were immigrants, who were often blamed for those movements | |||
> bombings: during 1918-1920 a series of bombs were set off by radicals, including the Wall Street Bombing, which killed 30 | |||
- Palmer Raids, 1920s: US government responded to bombings and agitations by arresting 10,000+ people under suspicion of anti-American and pro-Russian sympathies | |||
- FBI created to investigate radicals during WWI and was used to enforce prohibition laws | |||
> J. Edgar Hoover ran the agency, led it like his own kingdom | |||
- following WWI and anti-war agitation, public turned anti-immigrant and immigration was largely shut down through 1920s until after WWII | |||
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