Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Prelude to War
• Election of 1912
• Woodrow Wilson
• War in Europe
• New type of warfare
• U.S. reaction
• End of War
• The Bolshevik Revolution
• The Versailles Treaty
• The League of Nations
PreWar > Election of 1912
• Four candidates:
• William Taft incumbent, Republican
• Woodrow Wilson surprise candidate, Democrat
• Teddy Roosevelt progressive “Bull Moose” party, best showing
ever by 3rd party
• Eugene Debs socialist, won 6% of the vote the most votes won
by a socialist candidate in US history
• Stood for different approaches to US politics
• Taft laissezfaire Gilded Age politics
• Wilson progressivist, prosmall business and competition
• Roosevelt militant antitrust politics
• Debs peaceful overthrow of capitalism
PreWar > Cartoon on the election of 1912
PreWar > Eugene Debs for Presidency, 1912
PreWar > Taft at Wilson’s inauguration, 1913
PreWar > Harper’s supporting Wilson in the election of 1912
PreWar > Woodrow Wilson cited in a film lauding the KKK, Birth of a
Nation, 1916
War in Europe > The Western Front
War in Europe > Gas masks used in World War I
War in Europe > Lyrics of World War I songs
A POOR AVIATOR LAY DYING BOMBED LAST NIGHT
A poor aviator lay dying. Oh God damnn the bombin' planes from Germany.
At the end of a bright summer’s day. They’re over us, they’re over us,
His comrades had gathered about him. One shellhole for the four of us
To carry his fragments away. Glory be to God there are no more of us
The airplane was piled on his wishbone, 'Cause one of us could fill it all alone.
His Hotchkiss was wrapped round his head;
He wore a sparkplug on each elbow, Gassed last night—gassed the night before,
'Twas plain he would shortly be dead. Gonna get gassed again if we never git
He spit out a valve and a gasket, gassed no more,
And stirred in the sump where he lay, When we’re gassed, we’re as sick as we can be,
And then to his wondering comrades, 'Cause phosgene and mustard gas is too much
These brave parting words he did say: for me.
And the butterfly valve off my neck,
Extract from my liver the crankshaft,
There are lots of good parts in this wreck.
And the cylinders out of my brain,
Take the piston rods out of my kidneys,
And assemble the engine again."
War in Europe > Deformed faces of soldiers
War in Europe > Cartoon on the war from nonwestern point of view, Chicago
Daily News, 1914
War in Europe > Cartoon on the war from nonwestern point of view, Columbus,
OH, Dispatch, 1915
War in Europe > Cartoon on German atrocities in Belgium, Life, 1915
U.S. in World War I > The Sinking of Lusitania, 1915
U.S. in World War I > Cartoon about the Zimmerman telegram, March 1917
U.S. in World War I > Reasons for US entry into World War I
• War profits U.S. traded heavily with Britain and France but complied
with a British embargo on trading with Germany
• Anglophilia on the part of leaders like Woodrow Wilson and also among
ordinary Americans (but not German or Irish immigrants)
• Security of loans to Europe
• The vision of a “liberal democratic world order”:
• Wilson envisioned trade between equal national partners just as he
envisioned a domestic economy made up of small businesses instead
of huge trusts
U.S. in World War I > The Poster by the Committee on Public Information
U.S. in World War I > Black Troops in France, 1918
U.S. in World War I > German leaflet addressed to black troops in France
U.S. in World War I > American ambulance similar to the one Ernest Hemingway
drove in Milan in 1918
U.S. in World War I > Typical Questions on the IQ test
Garnets are usually
A. yellow
B. blue
C. green
D. red
Soap is made by
A. B. T. Babbitt
B. Smith & Wesson
C. W. L. Douglas
D. Swift & Co.
Laura Jean Libby is known as a
A. singer
B. suffragist
C. writer
D. army nurse
If you are lost in a forest in the daytime, what is the thing to do?
• Hurry to the nearest house you know of
• Look for something to eat
• Use the sun or a compass for a guide
U.S. in World War I > US Army Intelligence Test Results
End of World War I > Cartoon on the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
Caption: “Count Parasitsky will not occupy his palatial residence in the mountains
this summer. He expects to remain in the city and do uplift work.”
End of World War I > Europe in 1914
End of World War I > Europe in 1919
End of World War I > Cartoon on the European view of the League of Nations
End of World War I > Cartoon on Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations,
1919
End of World War I > Cartoon on the international entanglements of the League
of Nations