- In March 1916, but Wilson pushed for greater war preperation (oponents mobilized on the streets and in Congresss)
- published literaturesponsored large rallies featuring movie starsportrayed America as a unified moral community engaged in a crusade for peace and freedomdepicted Germans as bestial monsters
- new cooperations like RCA that set the stage for the new radio broadcasting industry of the 1920s
- the counter-offensive that followed and helped force the Germans into signing an armistice
- anti-german feeling that worked against breweries with german names need to conserve grainmoral fervor associated with entry into the war
- set severe penalties for anyone found guilty aiding the enemy excluded from the mail periodicals the postmaster considered treasonous
- a mass African-American migration out of the South and into northern cities
- the arming of merchant ships and allowing them to shoot submarines -in one month German U-boats sank seven merchant ships
- when German relations worsened; accepted an international commison's reccomendation
- noncombat jobs, those that did fight served with distinction and were treated well by the French
- shored up defensive lines to stop a German advance that came within 50 miles of Paris
- gave them a leading role in their communities selling war bonds, coordinating food conservation drives, and working for hospitals and the Red Cross
- led to competing camps of alliances -the triple alliance (central powers)-the tripe entente (allied powers)
- Resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, gambling that they could destroy the allies before America intervened (Wilson broke diplomatic relations)
- Sank a British passenger ship secretly loaded with armaents, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans
- that it would follow increased U.S. trade and investments (RR's, mining, plantations)
- "dollar diplomacy" that substituted investment for military intervention
- expanded it to justify armed intervention in the Caribbeanwhere the united states assumed managemnet of several nations' finances (roosevelt/corollary)
- secured a zone in panama for a canal, completed in 1914 ($720 million)
- germany made a 10 year non aggression aoct with who?