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U.S. History Top 100 What every student should know to pass the U.S. History EOC Goal 8 Goal 8: The Great War and Its Aftermath (1914-1930) • The learner will analyze United States involvement in World War I and the war’s influence on international affairs during the 1920s. U.S. - Neutrality to Involvement • • • • • • May 1915 – U-boats sink the Lusitania Sept. 1915 – Germany promises not to sink unarmed ships March 1916 – Germany sinks the Sussex May 1916 – Germany promises not to sink unarmed ships Jan. 1917 – Zimmerman note is intercepted Feb. 1917 – Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare • April 1917 – U.S. declares war on Germany Russian Revolution, 1917 • Instituted a Communist government lead by the Bolshevik party under Lenin. Lenin pulled Russia out of WWI. Fourteen Points, 1918 • Wilson's idea that he wanted included in the WWI peace treaty, including freedom of the seas and the League of Nations. League of Nations, 1919 • Devised by President Wilson, it comprised of delegates from many countries, the U.S. did not join. It was designed to be run by a council of the five largest countries. It also included a provision for a world court. Eugene V. Debs • Debs repeatedly ran for president as a socialist, he was imprisoned after he gave a speech protesting WWI in violation of the Sedition Act. Schenck v. U.S., 1919 • United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. During wartime, utterances tolerable in peacetime can be punished. Sacco and Vanzetti • Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory. • Convicted on circumstantial evidence, many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities.