The Wilson Administration and American Entry into World War I

First Term:  The New Freedom
          Segregation

          Federal Reserve Act

          Federal Trade Commission Act

          Clayton Anti-trust Act

Panama Canal Opens

Latin America

Mexican Revolution

                   Haiti, 1915 - 1934

                   Dominican Republic, 1916

The Great War, 1914

          Triple Entente – Britain, France, Russia

          Triple Alliance – Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy

          Nationalism

          Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo

Election of 1916

          Wilson v. Hughes

          “Too Proud to Fight”

          Neutrality

                   Problems with Neutrality

                             Economics, British Blockade

                             Anglophiles in administration

          Submarine Warfare

                   Lusitania, May 7, 1915

          “Peace without victory” – January 1917

US declares war, April 1917

American Expeditionary Force, Pershing

Liberty Bonds

War Industries Board, July 1917, Bernard Baruch

          Dollar a year men

National War Labor Board

Committee on Public Information, George Creel

Espionage Act of 1917

Sedition Act of 1918

          Eugene Debs

          Industrial Workers of the World

American Protective League

Anti-German hysteria

Russian Revolutions, 1917

          Bolsheviks

The Peace

          14 Points

          League of Nations

Paris Peace

          Wilson in Europe

Election of 1918

          Henry Cabot Lodge

          Fight over Treaty of Versailles

          Wilson’s stroke

Expedition into Russian Civil War

Consequences of War