Week of Februrary 21, Wednesday lecture

Europe After World War I (Map)

I. Disillusionment

IMAGE: 1920 Cover of This Side of Paradise

II. The Uniqueness of WWI

• Particularly Brutal War
  Excerpts from a Doughboy's Diary
  IMAGE: In the Argonne Forest
  IMAGE: A Casualty
• Wilson's Idealism
• The War at Home

III. The Administrative State Goes to War

• War Industries Board
• Bernard Baruch
  IMAGE: Baruch and the WIB
• Business-Government Cooperation
• Military-Industrial Complex
  IMAGE: The War Industry
  IMAGE: Women in the War Industry
• Centralization And Consolidation
• Long-term Impact

IV. An Unsettling Experience

V. Mobilizing Support

• Committee on Public Information
  IMAGE: Dehumanization of the Enemy
  IMAGE: The Hun
  IMAGE: The Evil Kaiser
• Espionage Act (1917) and Sedition Act (1918)
• 100% Americanism
  Concern Over the Treatment of German Americans
• Red Scare
  IMAGE: Cartoon Depiction of the IWW
  IMAGE: IWW Deportation
• Schenck Vs. U.S. (1919)
• Palmer Raids
  IMAGE: Attorney General Palmer
  IMAGE: Results of a Palmer Raid
• Debate Was Stifled
• Sacco and Vanzetti Case
  IMAGE: Sacco & Vanzetti
  Vanzetti's Last Statement
  IMAGE: The Cause Celebre

VI. Progressivism and the War

Randolph Bourne: "The War & The Intellectuals"

VII. A War Turned Sour

return to America and the First World War

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