Essential Question
• What was the impact of WWI
on the United States?
Government Bonds
• Liberty Bonds
• Victory Bonds
• Americans loaned
the government
money, to be repaid
with interest
Female Employment
• Increased
opportunities for
women to fill
industrial jobs left
open by men
serving in the
military
The Great Migration
• Thousands of African
Americans left the
South for northern
cities and factory
jobs
• Chicago, NYC,
Detroit, Cleveland
Espionage Act of 1917
• Penalties and prison
terms for anyone
helping the enemy
• Espionage = spying to
acquire secret
government
information
Sedition Act of 1918
• Any public expression
of opposition to the
war was made illegal
Schenck vs. the United States (1919)
• Supreme Court ruled
that an individual’s
freedom of speech
could be curbed
when the words are a
“clear and present
danger”
Schenck vs. the United States (1919)
“When a nation is at war, many things that
might be said in times of peace are such a
hindrance to its effort that their utterance will
not be endured so long as [soldiers] fight.”
American Troops
• Aided the French in
stopping German
attack
• Began to push
Germans back
Signing the Armistice
• Nov. 11, 1918
• Germany signed an
armistice (ceasefire)
to end the war
Wilson’s Plan for Peace
• Peace conference
met in 1919
• U.S., Great Britain,
France, Italy
• Wilson offered his
plan
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
• Attempted to
eliminate causes of
war
• Right of selfdetermination
• Creation of the
League of Nations
League of Nations
• Member nations
would help
preserve peace
and prevent future
wars
Treaty of Versailles
• Harsh terms for
Germany
• Germany must
remove armed
forces and pay war
damages ($33
billion) to the
Allies
U.S. Response
• Little support for
Wilson’s League
of Nations
• Congress did not
ratify the Treaty
of Versailles
Wilson’s Decline
• Traveled throughout
the U.S. to speak in
support of his plan
• Collapsed in
Colorado in Sept.
1919, suffered a
stroke