Outline 4

Origins of the Great War

European Background: The Old Diplomacy
    Empires and the Balance-of-Power
    Industrialization and Imperial Frenzy
    Contra Empire: Lenin and Wilson

The Coming of War
    Making Alliances
    Balkans Crisis  (map)
    Germany Attacks

The U.S. Response
    So-Called Neutrality
    Economic Motives
    International Law
    "The World Must be Made Safe for Democracy"
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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Fashoda
Boer War
Entente Cordiale
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trade:       w/ Allies               w/ Germany
1914              $754m                  $345m
1915              $1.28b                  $29m
1916              $2.75b                  $2m
J.P. Morgan Banking House
William Jennings Bryan
Robert Lansing
U-Boats
Lusitania
House-Grey Memorandum
Gore-McLemore Resolution
Sussex

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