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Goal 8 - The Great War and Its Aftermath

The Great War and its Aftermath (1914-1930) - The learner will analyze United States involvment in World War I and the war's influence on international affairs during the 1920s.

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Objective 8.01

Objective 8.02

Objective 8.03

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			8.01 Examine the reasons why the United States remained neutral at the beginning of World War I but later became involved. 8.02 Identify political and military turning points of the war and determine their significance to the outcome of the conflict. 8.03 Assess the political, economic, social, and cultural effects of the war on the United States and other nations.

	- Causes of World War I in Europe - Use of and effects of propaganda - U. S. anti-war Sentiment - Reasons for U. S. entry into The Great War
				* Nationalism * Militarism * Alliances * Archduke Francis Ferdinhand * U-Boat submarine warfare * Serbia * Allies * Central Powers * Kaiser Wilhelm II * Contraband * Zimmerman Telegram * Lusitania * Mobilization * Election of 1916 * Woodrow Wilson * Isolationists * Selective Service Act * Jeanette Rankin * �Make the world safe for democracy� * Idealism


		- The importance of United States involvement in World War I - Modernization of warfare - The changing nature of United States foreign policy - Key factors in the Allies� success - Failure of the United States to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
				* John J. Pershing * American Expeditionary Force * Trench warfare * �No Man�s Land� * Mustard gas * Doughboys * Armistice * Fourteen Points (1-5, 14) * �The Big Four� * �Peace without victory� * Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions * Treaty of Versailles * League of Nations * Henry Cabot Lodge


				* Industrial workers of the World * Self-determination * Committee on Public Information/George Creel Food Administration/Herbert Hoover * War Industries Board/Bernard Baruch * Ku Klux Plan * Palmer/Palmer Raids * Espionage and Sedition Acts * Eugene V. Debs * Schenck v United States, 1919 * Sacco and Vanzetti * John L. Lewis (United Mine Workers) * Washington Naval Conference * Dawes Plan
- Adjustment from wartime to a peacetime economy - Government bureaucracy in the United States - Anti-immigration sentiment and the first Red Scare - Restrictions on civil liberties during wartime - Political changes in Europe and the near East - Impact of isolationism on American foreign policy

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