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The Cambridge History of War and Society in America

  • 3 - Waging World War I

  • from Part I - American Power in the Modern Era
  • Edited by Brooke L. Blower, Boston University, Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of America and the World
    Published online:
    12 November 2021
    Print publication:
    03 March 2022, pp 85-107

  • Summary

    In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson’s case for entering World War I (then known as the Great War) relied heavily on allegations that Germany was flouting international law by using U-boats to sink merchant and passenger ships traveling between the United States and the Allied nations, primarily Great Britain and France. Two and a half years after the war began, Wilson asserted that it was time to put neutrality aside.

  • DEEDS NOT WORDS: AMERICAN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS AND WORLD WAR I

  • Jennifer D. Keene
  • Journal:
    The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Volume 17 / Issue 4 / October 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 September 2018, pp. 704-718
    Print publication:
    October 2018

  • This essay investigates how the repressive wartime political and social environment in World War I encouraged three key American social justice movements to devise new tactics and strategies to advance their respective causes. For the African American civil rights, female suffrage, and civil liberties movements, the First World War unintentionally provided fresh opportunities for movement building, a process that included recruiting members, refining ideological messaging, devising innovative media strategies, negotiating with the government, and participating in nonviolent street demonstrations. World War I thus represented an important moment in the histories of all three movements. The constructive, rather than destructive, impact of the war on social justice movements proved significant in the short term (for the suffragist movement) and the long term (for the civil rights and civil liberties movements). Ultimately, considering these three movements collectively offers new insights into American war culture and the history of social movements.

  • 19 - North America

  • from Part III - World War
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    09 January 2014, pp 511-532

  • Summary

    This chapter explains why did sea power itself play such a relatively limited role in the Great War, as compared to its magnificent and undoubted importance in both the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars and the Second World War. Sea power was vital for the extension of Japanese maritime influence across the waterways of Asia and the Indian Ocean; eventually, a Japanese destroyer squadron was to operate out of the Grand Harbour, Malta. In the classic study of the US Marines and amphibious warfare in the Pacific campaigns, Jeter A. Isley and Philip Crowl begin with a very blunt comparison: Success at Okinawa and Failure at Gallipoli. The US Marine Corps studied the Gallipoli campaign throughout the interwar years. The chapter presents an example of the crimping of the influence of sea power in the new era of mines, torpedoes, entrenched coastal gunnery, motor tropedo boats and submarines.