Overview: This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome...but so is war.
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Resources:America Becomes a Global Power:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=10&smtID=3 American Imperialism: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook34.asp#American Imperialism World War 1: http://www.worldwar1.com/ * World War 1 Poetry: Choose ONE http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1914warpoets.asp *The Zimmerman Telegram: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann/#documents *China's Open Door Policy: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=4068 *Platt Amendment: Cuba http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3939 |
OutlinesChapter 10
Chapter 11
Websites:If WW1 was a bar fight.... http://themetapicture.com/if-wwi-was-a-bar-fight/
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The March of the Flag- Albert Beveridge
"It is a noble land that God has given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would inclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe, a greater England with a nobler destiny.
It is a mighty people that He has planted on this soil; a people sprung from the most masterful blood of history; a people perpetually revitalized by the virile, manproducing workingfolk of all the earth; a people imperial by virtue of their power, by right of their institutions, by authority of their Heaven-directed purposes-the propagandists and not the misers of liberty."
"It is a noble land that God has given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would inclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe, a greater England with a nobler destiny.
It is a mighty people that He has planted on this soil; a people sprung from the most masterful blood of history; a people perpetually revitalized by the virile, manproducing workingfolk of all the earth; a people imperial by virtue of their power, by right of their institutions, by authority of their Heaven-directed purposes-the propagandists and not the misers of liberty."
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