JOHN MUNRO, ST. MARYS UNIVERSITY Guest Lecture, History 2014 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

THE CONFEDERACY’S GREAT WAR JOHN MUNRO, ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY Guest Lecture, History 2014 Dalhousie University, 01 October 2015

The Confederacy’s Great War The United States in an Age of Empires 1. Diplomacy, Culture, and the Great War 2. Global 1919 and the United States 3.

Part I: The United States in an Age of Empires US Civil War: 1861-1865

- Cotton supply - National consolidation - Racial revolution “Over the Way,” Punch (November 1861)

An Anticolonial Reconstruction? Reconstruction: 1865-1877 Blanche K. Bruce, Hiram R. Revels, Senator for Senator for Mississippi, Mississippi, 1875-1881 1870-1871

Reconstruction Overthrown

War of 1898 “Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self - “The Filipino’s First Bath,” Judge (1899) Government,” Harper’s Weekly (1898)

Cecil Rhodes as “The Rhodes Colossus” Uncle Sam as “Colossus of the Pacific”

Part II: Diplomacy, Culture, and the Great War US soldiers arriving in France, 1917

Woodrow Wilson: US President, 1913-1921

Divided Opinion in the United States - Immigrants and descendants from both sides of conflict in US - Sinking of Lusitania , 1915

“He Kept Us Out of War” - Election of 1916 - Germany resumes U-boat attacks, 1917 Wilson campaign truck, 1916

Moving Toward War - Zimmerman Telegram, February 1917 - US Declares War, April 1917 1. Economics 2. Culture 3. Peace Wilson asking Congress for Declaration of War, 02 April 1917

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

George Creel -Committee on Public Information

The Birth of a Nation , 1915

Founding of the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915

Protests against Birth of a Nation , 1915

Woodrow Wilson , History of the American People (1902)

Intertitle from Birth of a Nation (1915)

Part III: Global 1919 and the United States Vittorio Orlando, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson, Paris, 1919

Selling the Treaty in the US Henry Cabot Lodge Wilson on US speaking tour, 1919 Woodrow with wife Edith Wilson, 1920

The Colonies Look to Wilson Nguyen Tat Thanh in Paris, 1919

Sa’d Zaghlul Wafd Party

Lala Lajpat Rai Swadeshi movement

W.E.B. Du Bois

Blaise Diane Pan-African Congress, 1919 “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 only a small group in Europe, wants in Africa is not a field for…civilization, but…exploitation.” W.E.B. Du Bois, “Reconstruction and Africa”

Wilson’s Legacy