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180OL.18-17.pptAmerican Portraits: Selling the Great War
James Montgomery Flagg, Wake Up, America!, 1917. Poster.
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Howard Chandler Christy, Clear the Way!!, 1918.
Poster.
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Howard Chandler Christy, Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, 1917.
Poster.
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What Can You Do?, c. 1917.
Poster.
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HIST 180 Survey of American History
What Can You Do?, c. 1917.
Poster.
Benjamin Cawthra, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton
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The Great War and American Society
Timeline: The Great War and American Society
Modernism and Alien Art
World War I and the Crisis of Freedom
African Americans and the War
Workers and the War
Suppressing Dissent
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1. Timeline: The Great War and American Society
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York kills 146 women; revision of state factory codes.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson elected president, defeating Republican Taft, Progressive Roosevelt, and Socialist Debs in the “Progressive Election.”
National Woman’s Party formed under Alice Paul.
Federal Reserve System created.
Armory Show and Paterson Pageant in New York.
1914 Great War begins in Europe; Wilson declares American neutrality.
Federal Trade Commission created to regulate business practices.
Panama Canal opened.
US troops occupy Haiti.
Germans declare submarine warfare; sink Lusitania with loss of American lives.
Louis Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court.
Wilson re-elected, defeating Republican Charles Evans Hughes.
General John J. Pershing leads expedition into Mexico to hunt Pancho Villa.
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare; US enters the war. Espionage Act.
Russian Revolution.
Sedition Act, providing severe penalties for “disloyal” opinions.
Armistice; Germany defeated.
Congress passes Nineteenth Amendment, giving vote to women; ratified 1920.
Steel Strike.
Race Riots in Chicago, East St. Louis, and Washington.
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2. Modernism and Alien Art
Marcel Duchanp, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912.
Oil on canvas.
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3. World War I and the Crisis of Freedom
John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1919.
Oil on canvas. Imperial War Museum, London.
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
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AEF troops fighting in the Argonne Forest advance, 1918.
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H.R. Hopps, Destroy This Mad Brute, 1917. Poster.
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Joseph Pennell, That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth, 1918. Poster.
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Suffragist addresses crowd in St. Louis, c. 1913.
Photograph. Missouri Historical Society.
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Silent Sentinels, Washington, D.C., 1917.
Photograph.
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4. African Americans and the War
C.M. Battey, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1918.
Photograph.
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369th Regiment (Colored) marches through Harlem after serving in France.
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Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Wilson is seated at center.
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5. Workers and the War
Art Young, Having Their Fling, 1917 (published in The Masses).
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Art Young, Fattened by the Horrors of War, 1919 (published in The Masses).
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6. Suppressing Dissent
Robert Minor, Army Medical Examiner: “At Last, a Perfect Soldier,” 1916 (published in The Masses).
Espionage Act, 1917
Sedition Act, 1918
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Eugene V. Debs.
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Alley, Come Unto Me, Ye Opprest!” from Literary Digest, July 5, 1919.
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U.S. Government: World War I Poster, 1917.
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U.S. Government: World War I Poster, 1917.
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