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Today in AP United States History we learned more about World War One. We learned about how the war ended and how President Wilson insisted on a “peace without victory,” a detailed list of war aims, known as the Fourteen Points. The Fourteen Points listed what each nation had to do to restore peace. Germany had to return Alsace and Lorraine to France. Germany had to evacuate Belgium in the west and Romania and Serbia. There had to be open, not secret, diplomacy. There also had to be Freedom of the Seas, which meant that Germany had to stop submarine warfare. The trade barriers had to be taken away, making it so that anyone could trade with whomever. Germany had to reduce their army. There was self-determination for various nationalities within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Association of Nations became the League of Nations. There were also the Big Four which included David Lloyd George, Britain, Vitlorio Orlando, Italy, Georges Clemenceau, France, and President Wilson United States. These people created the Treaty of Versailles.

JUSTO LAMAS!

Today in stead of going to Advanced Placement United States History, I went to the Justo Lamas concert. Justo is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He speaks Spanish and some very bad English. Justo tours the United States visiting schools and putting on concerts for students that are studying Spanish. I have attended the Justo concert three years in a row. Students in my Spanish class enjoy learning the words to the songs and singing them along with Justo. The concert was very memorable and I enjoyed singing along with Justo. During part of the concert Justo told us a story about his childhood. When Justo was three, his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Then when Justo was just five he went into the closet and found his mother with a belt around her neck trying to commit suicide. Justo pulled the belt off and his mother told him that she was a bad mother. Soon after Justo’s mother tried to commit suicide Justo had trouble in school. He was shy, stuttered, and didn’t have any friends. He also had asthma. My favorite song by Justo is Amor.

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Election of 1916
In the election of 1916 President Wilson proclaimed Americans neutrality. The campaign slogan he used was “He Kept Us out of War.” President Wilson was reelected.

Events of 1917
February first Germany announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. They would attack without warning all vessels headed for Allied ports. War was a stalemate and Germany needed to break the English blockade. United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany after the Zimmerman Note. Germany promises the lost territories in southwestern United States to be returned to Mexico for their support in the war. Americans reacted angrily. Soon after the Zimmerman Note, four United States merchant ships sunk by the Germans Renewed Submarine attacks. The Russians overthrew the czar during the Russian Revolution. This made it appear that democratic forces in Russia were going to gain control. If the United States entered the war, it would be joining an alliance of democratic nations.

Declaration of War
On April 2, 1917, ninety-one years ago President Wilson went before Congress, and asked that Congress recognized a state of war existed between the United States and Germany.

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Economic Links with Britain and France
The British blockade prevented trade with Germany and President Woodrow Wilson tolerated British blockade while restricting Germany submarine blockade. United States trade was going to one side and not the other. United States government permitted J.P. Morgan and other bankers to extend loan and credit to Allies, he gave three billion dollars.
Public Opinion
Germany was perceived as a cruel bully. Ruthlessness of the German people was reinforced by the sinking of the Lusitania. Second generation immigrants backed the United States neutrality, yet they were sympathetic to their country of origin. German-Americans sympathized with the struggles of their homeland; Irish-Americans hated the British for their own reasons. Majority of native-born Americans wanted the Allies to win.
Propaganda
Allies controlled the transatlantic cable. This allowed Allies to promote the war as one of civilized democratic nations against the barbaric Germans. Effective uses of propaganda were films, posters, and slogans.
Mobilizing for War
Passage of the National Defense Act and Navy Act in 1916 began the expansion of the armed forces. May 1917, congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for a draft. All males eighteen to forty-five had to register. 400,000 African American soldiers served in the war in segregated units. Many women served in the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Over two million American served in France in a separate command, the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), under General John J. Pershing. Their effort tipped the scale in favor of the Allies. The United States lost about 51,000 men. The United States entered the war of the side of the Allies in April of 1917. They were poorly prepared for the war.

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Sequence of Events

Sarajevo, June 28, 1914- Serbian terrorist assassinated the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
Vienna, July 23- Austrian government issues and ultimatum threatening a war against Serbia.
Berlin, August 1- As Austria’s ally, the German government under Kaiser Wilhelm I declares war against Russia, an ally of Serbia.
Berlin, August 3- Germany declares war on France, an ally of Russia, and begins to invade neutral Belgium because it offered a faster route to Paris.
London, August 4- Great Britain, an ally of France, declares war against Germany.

The United States intervened in the Caribbean and asserted the Open Door Policy in China. President Wilson issued a declaration of United States neutrality. The Triple Alliance or the Central Powers included Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire/ Turkey. The Triple Entente or the Allies included Britain, Russia, France, Italy, and the United States. The British passenger ship the Lusitania was sunk on May 7, 1915, killing one hundred twenty-eight Americans. In 1915, Germany attacked another ship, the Arabic, and President Wilson was told by Germany that no other passenger ship shall be sunk without warning. Germany kept its word until 1916, till the merchant ship Sussex was torpedoed, Wilson threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with Germany. Germany promised not to sink merchant or passenger ships without warning.

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Today in AP

Today in AP we learned a little about Woodrow Wilson. We learned that he was a progressive president. Wilson lowered tariffs and felt that graduated income tax was good. He restructured the banking and currency system under the Federal Reserve Act. He expanded the nation’s anti-trust authority and established the Federal Trade Commission.
When we were finished with this we looked pictures that were of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. These pictures were very detailed and they were some what graphic. They showed that women had jumped out of the windows and some that had been burnt. The pictures also showed that some women were being identified and that some were never known.
We also got a test on chapter twenty- one. This test is about thirty- five questions.

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Roosevelt's Presidency

Today we learned more about President Roosevelt. We learned that Roosevelt viewed the presidency as a “bully pulpit” to promote progressive reforms. He directed the Justice Department to prosecute a number of unpopular monopolies. These actions won him the title the sobriquet “trustbuster.” Roosevelt favored the passing of regulatory laws including: the Hepburn Act, which strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which required that companies to accurately label the ingredients contained in processed food items. The Pure Food and Drug Act also made many drugs illegal to include heroin and cocaine. President Roosevelt wanted stricter regulations that would push smaller businesses out of the market. The American meatpacking industry could now compete with the federal stamp of approval required under the Meat Inspection Act. During Roosevelt’s presidency he founded Forest Service and supported conservation efforts of John Muir, the founder of the modern environmental movement. In his second term Roosevelt announced his Square Deal program as a way to stave off radicalism through progressive reform. In the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, promoted his New Freedom platform and ended up winning the election. He beat Roosevelt, Taft, and Eugene Debs in this election.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Today our history teacher told us a story about Teddy Roosevelt. One day while he was out hunting in the woods with some of his dogs, when Roosevelt came across a bear. This bear was wounded and very angry, when Roosevelt’s favorite dog went up to the bear it got hit with the bears’ claw and the dog died. Roosevelt was devastated when he realized that his dog was killed and he went back to the cabin for a long time, until some of his aids came to talk to him and tell him they had a surprise for him. When Roosevelt went out to see the surprise it was the bear, the bear had been shot multiple times and was going to bleed to death. One of the aids handed Roosevelt the rifle and told him to shoot the bear. Roosevelt didn’t felt that it wasn’t right to kill the bear but he also thought that it was inhumane to let the bear bleed to death, so he told one of his aids to shoot it. One day after a man heard the story of the hunting incident, he decided to make the Teddy Bear, named after Theodore Roosevelt.

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Progressive Era early 20th century

For the past week in AP United States History, my class has been working on the Progressive Era. This Era is about how people in the early twentieth century led social reform movements to earn better working conditions, fewer hours, and more pay.

New York City had become the center immigrants, many of whom worked at piece-rates in the ready-to-wear garment industry. Garment work was a very seasonal job. Working conditions were generally cramped, dirty, and dark. Workers worked long hours to produce the quota for each day.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York led to laws that protected workers. This fire occurred in a factory of women workers. These women were trapped in the factory when the fire was started. This was because the managers locked the windows and doors, to prevent the women from stealing materials.

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