Lecture 10: World War I and Imperial Progressivism

I. Introduction: Reform, World War I, and the State

II. Wilson, Lenin, Revolution, and Reform

(setting the stage for the Cold War)
III. The Home Front
Case Study: African Americans and World War I
Case Study: War and Propaganda

William Jennings Bryan; Lochner v. New York (1905); Muller v. Oregon (1908); initiative; referendum; recall; child labor laws; Louis D. Brandeis; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914); Mexican Revolution; "freedom of the seas"; Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey); Allies (mainly Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan); Lusitania sinking (1915); "War socialism"; War Industries Board; Bernard Baruch; George Creel; Committee on Public Information; Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917-1918); Fourteen Points; Russian Revolution; Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; migration clubs; the "New Negro"; Chicago Defender; Booker T. Washington; W. E. B. DuBois; NAACP