world war 1 key concepts
Isolationism:
• America's reluctance to become involved in European alliances and wars.
• Isolationists held the view that America's perspective on the world was different from that of European societies and that America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than war.
• American isolationism did not mean disengagement from the world stage.
• Isolationists were not averse to the idea that the United States should be a world player and even further its territorial, ideological and economic interests, particularly in the Western Hemisphere.
Sussex Pledge:
• Promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War.
• Promised to alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships.
• Instead, Merchant Ships would be searched and sunk only if they contained contraband, and then only after safe passage had been provided for the crew and passengers
Propaganda:
• Ensured that the people only got to know what their governments wanted them to know.
• In World War One, the lengths to which governments would go to in an effort to blacken the enemy’s name reached a new level.
• To ensure that everybody thought in the way the government wanted, all forms of information were controlled.
• Newspapers were expected to print what the government wanted the reader to read.
• In fact, though this would appear to be a form of censorship, the newspapers of Britain, effectively controlled by the media barons of the time, were happy to play ball.
• They printed headlines that were designed to stir up emotions regardless of whether they were accurate or not.
Hegemony:
• an indirect form of government, and of imperialdominance in which the hegemon (leader state) rules geopolitically subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather
• America's reluctance to become involved in European alliances and wars.
• Isolationists held the view that America's perspective on the world was different from that of European societies and that America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than war.
• American isolationism did not mean disengagement from the world stage.
• Isolationists were not averse to the idea that the United States should be a world player and even further its territorial, ideological and economic interests, particularly in the Western Hemisphere.
Sussex Pledge:
• Promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War.
• Promised to alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships.
• Instead, Merchant Ships would be searched and sunk only if they contained contraband, and then only after safe passage had been provided for the crew and passengers
Propaganda:
• Ensured that the people only got to know what their governments wanted them to know.
• In World War One, the lengths to which governments would go to in an effort to blacken the enemy’s name reached a new level.
• To ensure that everybody thought in the way the government wanted, all forms of information were controlled.
• Newspapers were expected to print what the government wanted the reader to read.
• In fact, though this would appear to be a form of censorship, the newspapers of Britain, effectively controlled by the media barons of the time, were happy to play ball.
• They printed headlines that were designed to stir up emotions regardless of whether they were accurate or not.
Hegemony:
• an indirect form of government, and of imperialdominance in which the hegemon (leader state) rules geopolitically subordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of force, rather