J. Kelly Robison

World War I

  1. American Intervention
    1. Outbreak and Course of the War
    2. The Course of American Neutrality
    3. America to the Rescue
  2. Domestic Impact
    1. Mobilization
    2. Stirring Up Patriotism and Suppressing Dissent
      1. Espionage Act of 1918
    3. Economic and Social Trends
  3. The Peace of Versailles
    1. The Fourteen Points
    2. Armistice
    3. Securing the Threat at Home
  4. Postwar Hysteria
    1. The Red Scare
      1. The Bolshevik Revolution
      2. The Palmer Raids
    2. The Election of 1920

Identification Terms:

Central Powers U-boots Lusitania
Sussex Pledge Zimmerman Telegram War Industries Board
National War Labor Board Committee on Public Information Sedition Act
Espionage Act Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations Palmer Raids Bolshevik Revolution

Essay Questions:

In what ways were mobilization and the war effort a fulfillment of the progressive legacy? In what ways did the war deny the basic tenets of progressivism? Why?

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