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WAR WORLD I, U.S. Refusal to Join League of Nations - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Political fear and the controversy of war opposition led to the first Red Scare in the U.S.
      - a foreign born soilder could become a citizen in one day
- - - - Imperialism: caused by another type of competition and disagreement. The British and French empires made Germany jealous as it tried to colonize parts of Africa.
- - - - The German invasion of Belgium
        
        Make the world safe for democracy
- - - - Fear Propaganda: Other posters capitalized on more violent on emotions, especially fear and anger at the enemy. In the United States, posters began to make their appeals to the "American sense of right and wrong" in April 1917. Posters urged the country to prepare and, after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, to enlist
        
        Why Propaganda?To influence public opinion in favor of the war, the U.S produced films, commissioned colorful posters, published pamphlets and recruited everyday Americans to “sell the war.” These efforts helped create both modern American wartime propaganda and spurred the 20th century advertising industry.
        
        George Creel presented President Wilson with the opportunity to turn the propaganda machine agency to help promote the war effort
        
        The best known propaganda poster was made by James Montgomery Flagg. It was Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer saying "I want you." This is a product of the First World War and in some ways one of the biggest icons of the war that is remembered centuries later.
- - - - Artillery: The Big Guns. Rolling barrages destroyed the earth of France and Belgium and the lives of many. Millions of shells were fired in single battles, with one million
        
        Grenades: Hand grenades were also known as “hand bombs.” The general philosophy for their use in the fighting armies was that grenades could kill the enemy underground or behind cover.
        
        Unrestricted U-boat Warfare: At the dawn of 1917, the German high command forced a return to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, engineering the dismissal of opponents of the policy that aimed to sink more than 600,000
        
        Bicycle Battalions: World War I is known for introducing wartime innovations such as tanks and submarines, but the world’s armies still made plenty of use of “old-fashioned” technology. Case in point: Bicycle