Consequences of WW1: USA's Emergence out of WW1 by https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA A place to put evidence you find that helps with your essay en-us 2018-05-16 02:50:30 UTC 2026-03-17 10:02:14 UTC hello@padlet.com American Economic Growth post-WW1 francesannebote https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261063427 America's economy boomed during and after the war and set off what is known as the "roaring 20's." This is b/c America was responsible for supplying the European Empires with raw materials such as metal, cotton, wheat etc.]]> 2018-05-16 02:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261063427 The war changed the economical balance of the world, leaving European countries deep in debt and making the U.S. the leading industrial power and creditor in the world. https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261063604 2018-05-16 02:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261063604 A New Great Power https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261388284 Before its entry into World War I, the United States of America was a nation of untapped military potential and growing economic might. But the war changed the U.S. in two important ways: the country's military was turned into a large-scale fighting force with the intense experience of modern war, a force that was clearly equal to the old Great Powers; and the balance of economic power began the transfer from the drained nations of Europe to America. However, the toll taken by the war led to decisions by U.S. politicians to retreat from the world and return to isolationism. That isolation initially limited the impact of America's growth, which would only truly come to fruition in the aftermath of World War II. This retreat also undermined the League of Nations and the emerging new political order.

]]> 2018-05-16 21:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261388284 https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261388288  The effects of WW1 on America were wide-ranging covering the political, economic and social impact the Great War had on the United States. Unlike the countries of Europe, the factories and home of the US had not been destroyed. Manufacturing, production and efficiency had increased through necessity during the Great War. America had emerged as a world industrial leader and the US economy was booming, profits were increasing which led to the period in American history called the Roaring Twenties with a massive rise in consumerism for the wealthy. ]]> 2018-05-16 21:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261388288 bananabriannacakes https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261388932  Tension and race riots between African Americans and White Americans increased rapidly during the war years of 1917-1919.]]> 2018-05-16 21:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261388932 https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390011 One of the central problems nations faced during the war was procuring necessary foodstuffs for military use while ensuring that the civilian population remained adequately fed. The United States proved able to feed its soldiers without enacting a formalized food-rationing programme, instead relying upon a national campaign of financial enticements for producers and collective self-sacrifice for consumers.]]> 2018-05-16 21:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390011 The Declaration of Independence https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390177 2018-05-16 21:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390177 Whoever Put In The Declaration Of Independence francesannebote https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390877 delete yourself]]> 2018-05-16 21:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390877 https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261390903 The consequences for the United States were also enormous. 
  • The war and its aftermath damaged the humanitarian, progressive spirit of the early 20th Century.  Bruising fights over the war and the League of Nations drained the American people's energy and enthusiasm for reform. Thus, progressivism lost its broad popular support among Americans.
  • The role of the federal government in the lives of ordinary Americans was dramatically strengthened - beginning with the President and Congress's decision to enter into war, to call for a draft, to shape the peace in Europe, and to interfere in the civil liberties of the American people during and after the war. 
  • Wilson's vision to take freedom and democracy to the rest of the world and to create open markets, combined with his willingness to intervene militarily in a war that would promote American interests and values became "the model for 20th-century American international relations." (Foner, Chapter 19)
  • The consequences of the war, then, "laid the foundation for one of the most conservative decades of the nation's history." (Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty, Chapter 19)
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  • Wilson understood that if we did not enter they war, we would not be able to help shape the peace that he envisioned - making the world "safe for democracy" and creating a new world order that would change the balance of power in Europe. This new world order would replace the traditional great power politics that brought Europe into the war and would instead emphasize the need for collective security, democracy, and self-determination in countries throughout the world. These ideas were embedded in his famous "Fourteen Points."
    The first five points dealt with general principles: 
  • Point 1 renounced secret treaties; 
  • Point 2 dealt with freedom of the seas; 
  • Point 3 wanted removal of world trade barriers; 
  • Point 4 advocated arms reductions; and 
  • Point 5 suggested the international arbitration of all colonial disputes. 
  • Points 6 to 13 were concerned with specific territorial problems, including claims made by Russia, France and Italy. This part: 
    • Raised issues about US and European commitments to territorial requests for self-determination and autonomy for peoples formerly ruled by the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. 
    • Suggested the creation of a "general association of nations to ensure peace and resolves conflicts through negotiation" - the League of Nations.
    •  Advocated "collective security" - the idea that in case of external aggression of any League member, the Council would determine how member states would respond.
  • Americans had increased their economic ties with the Allies.  England, especially, becomes a huge market for American goods and for loans at interest. 
  • English and German violations of America's neutral rights on the high seas increased the incidents of submarine warfare and led to the January 1917 announcement that Germany would begin sinking all ships in the waters around England and France. 
  • The Zimmerman telegram intercepted from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico proposed an alliance with Mexico in case of war with the US and offered financial support and recovery of Mexico's "lost territory" in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. 

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  • The Austrian-Hungarians acted most recklessly, caring little about the possible consequences of a small Balkan War.
  •  The Serbian government knew several days in advance about the assassination plot and, chose not to warn Austria.  (Worried that if true Pan-Slavic sentiment were understood in Austria, Serbia would suffer dire consequences.)
  •  Russia might have negotiated an early peace had she mobilized only against Austria.  But instead, the Russians mobilized against Germany as well.
  •  Britain refused to relinquish any of its imperialist claims and to admit that any other nations might have equally legitimate imperialist claims - especially Germany.
    • 4. Old grievances were exacerbated rather than alleviated. 
    •  Germans bitterly resented the victors - its historical enemies France and Britain, as well as its newest enemy, the US.  They were especially resentful of the harsh peace settlement, the war reparations - that eventually totaled over $33 billion - and the fact that they were held responsible for the war itself.
    •  The newly created nations, which had always been appended to other powers, were weak and continued to be dependent upon outsiders for security.
    5. Although Americans had escaped widespread damage to our homeland during the 19 months of our involvement, the economic, social, and political consequences upon our people were profound. 
    • The U.S. spent $35.5 billion dollars on the war effort.  More than 4.8 million Americans served in the armed forces.   About 116,000 Americans died and another 204,000 were wounded.  The typical American soldier was a draftee between 21 and 23 years old, white, single, and poorly educated
    • The status of two groups of previously unempowered persons was temporarily improved - black Americans and women.  Over 260,000 black Americans were drafted or volunteered and a half million Southern blacks moved to the urbanized North where they found decent-paying jobs.  Over 1 million women worked in industry between 1917-1918, but few women actually entered the workplace, moving, instead, to better-paying positions.  Gains of both groups were short-lived.
    • The war exposed the deep divisions among Americans that had been festering since colonial times: white versus black, nativist versus immigrant, capital versus labor, men versus women.  It also elevated political divisions:  radical versus progressive, pacifist versus interventionalist, nationalist versus internationalist, Republican versus Democrat. This latter point was especially evident in the rejection of Wilson's 14 Points:
      • All major countries involved in WWI objected to certain points. England and France distrusted Wilson's idealism for a peaceful world - a world made "safe for democracy." What they wanted was 
      • to disarm and cripple Germany, 
      • to take and redistribute all Germany's colonies, and 
      • to put an end to Wilson's ideas about self-determination
      • However, when peace negotiations began, Wilson insisted that his 14 Points should serve as a basis for the signing of the Armistice. So, what happens with Wilson's vision? 
      • In Versailles, he was forced to compromise. In order to get his most important point passed - #14: The League of Nations - he was only able to get three of his other points fulfilled: 
        • #7 - the evacuation and restoration of Belgium; 
        • #8 - the evacuation and restoration of all French lands lost in the war; and 
        • #9 - the establishment of an independent Poland. 
    • The war's aftermath destroyed the Wilson Presidency. During the elections of November 1918, Wilson had appealed to voters to elect a Democratic Congress saying that any other result would be "a repudiation of my leadership." This alienated many moderate Republicans as well as many of Wilson's fellow democrats. The Democrats lost both the House and the Senate. 
      •  When he went to Paris to negotiate the peace treaty, he refused to take any prominent Republicans and purposefully ignored the powerful Republican senator from Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge who was head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 
      • When he came home,
        was this Congress that had to "buy" his treaty and the revised 14 points. 
      • After a grueling trip across the nation to appeal to the people, Wilson had a stroke and while convalescing, Congress failed to pass the treaty or approve involvement in the League of Nations.
      • A treaty, without the League of Nations and without accepting the 14 points, was not signed until almost three years after the last shot was fired. Thus, it was not until July 1921 that Congress, acting in concert with the new president, Republican Warren G. Harding, passed a joint resolution officially ending the war.
    • Wartime powers allowed the federal government to intervene as never before in the lives of Americans.
    • The U.S. emerged as a greater power; by 1920, it was the world's leading economic power and had shifted from being a debtor to a creditor nation - thus becoming the world's leading banker 
    • The war, as Foner tells us, "cast a long shadow over the following decade" - the U.S. retreated from the international community by rejecting involvement in the League of Nations, Progressivism and progressive reform came to and end, and we failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.

    ]]>     2018-05-16 21:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261392141     Effects of WW I World War I had many long term effects on the growth and development of the United States and its relationship with other nations in the world. The federal government grew tremendously as a result of the war. Government spending increased at a pace never before witnessed in the US. The government created some 5,000 agencies during the course of the war. Many of the agencies continued after the war. Business and the influence of such businessmen as Herbert Hoover became essential in American economic and monetary planning. The labor movement received concessions from the government that it might not have received without the war. Organized labor began to grow within the economy. The incorporation of labor into federal decision-making processes made the AFL respectable. During the war there was a massive movement of blacks from the rural, segregated areas of the South to the industrial centers in the North. Many black soldiers who went to Europe, especially France, during the war, discovered societies that did not draw the color line so absolute as it was in the United States in the early part of the 1900s. Woman's rights received a boost during the war. Many went to work in occupations that had been the stronghold of men prior to the war. The suffrage movement was victorious in gaining women the right to vote. Perhaps the most important effect was the emergence of the United States into the world as a military and economic power. https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261393301 2018-05-16 21:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261393301 Egan https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261757974 America's rise to superpower status began with its 1917 entry into World War I. President Woodrow Wilson had grand visions for the peace that followed, but failed. The battle he started in the US between idealists and realists continues to this day.]]> 2018-05-17 22:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/261757974 aimeeisawesome https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/263928483 2018-05-28 02:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/263928483 Germany marks bananabriannacakes https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/264408076 By fall 1922, Germany found itself unable to make reparations payments. ... Inflation was exacerbated when workers in the Ruhr went on a general strike and the German government printed more money to continue paying for their passive resistance. By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks]]> 2018-05-30 01:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/264408076 bananabriannacakes https://padlet.com/samsanson1/ConsequencesUSA/wish/264409077
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