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The Confederacy’s Great War
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The United States in an Age of Empires
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Diplomacy, Culture, and the Great War
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JOHN MUNRO, ST. MARYS UNIVERSITY Guest Lecture, History 2014 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
JOHN MUNRO, ST. MARYS UNIVERSITY Guest Lecture, History 2014 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
THE CONFEDERACYS GREAT WAR JOHN MUNRO, ST. MARYS UNIVERSITY Guest Lecture, History 2014 Dalhousie University, 01 October 2015 The Confederacys Great War The United States in an Age of Empires 1. Diplomacy, Culture, and the Great War
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Part I: The United States in an Age of Empires
US Civil War: 1861-1865
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“Over the Way,” Punch (November 1861)
- Cotton supply
- National consolidation
- Racial revolution
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An Anticolonial Reconstruction?
Hiram R. Revels, Senator for Mississippi, 1870-1871 Blanche K. Bruce, Senator for Mississippi, 1875-1881
Reconstruction: 1865-1877
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Reconstruction Overthrown
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War of 1898
“Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self- Government,” Harper’s Weekly (1898) “The Filipino’s First Bath,” Judge (1899)
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Cecil Rhodes as “The Rhodes Colossus” Uncle Sam as “Colossus of the Pacific”
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Part II: Diplomacy, Culture, and the Great War
US soldiers arriving in France, 1917
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Woodrow Wilson: US President, 1913-1921
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Divided Opinion in the United States
- Immigrants and descendants from both
sides of conflict in US
- Sinking of Lusitania, 1915
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“He Kept Us Out of War”
Wilson campaign truck, 1916
- Election of 1916
- Germany
resumes U-boat attacks, 1917
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Moving Toward War
- Zimmerman
Telegram, February 1917
- US Declares
War, April 1917
Wilson asking Congress for Declaration of War, 02 April 1917
- 1. Economics
- 2. Culture
- 3. Peace
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The Fourteen Points
- “Peace without Victory”
- Statement of President’s
peace aims
- US involvement in war
plays important role in German defeat
- German surrender
encouraged by spirit of 14 Points
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George Creel
- Committee on Public Information
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The Birth of a Nation, 1915
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Founding of the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915
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Protests against Birth of a Nation, 1915
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Woodrow Wilson, History of the American People (1902)
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Intertitle from Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Vittorio Orlando, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson, Paris, 1919
Part III: Global 1919 and the United States
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Selling the Treaty in the US
Henry Cabot Lodge Wilson on US speaking tour, 1919 Woodrow with wife Edith Wilson, 1920
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The Colonies Look to Wilson
Nguyen Tat Thanh in Paris, 1919
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Wafd Party
Sa’d Zaghlul
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Lala Lajpat Rai
Swadeshi movement
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Pan-African Congress, 1919
Blaise Diane
“The truth is, white men are merely juggling with words – or worse – when they declare that the withdrawal of Europeans from Africa will plunge that continent into chaos. What Europe, and indeed
- nly a small group in Europe, wants in Africa is not
a field for…civilization, but…exploitation.” W.E.B. Du Bois, “Reconstruction and Africa”
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