Transcript World War I - Garfield High School

“The War to End All Wars”
“The Great War”
1914-1918
Reasons for
 Assassination of Austrian
War
Immediate
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, June
1914 by Serbian National
LONGSTANDING
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Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Alliances
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Until the Sinking of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915
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This was a telegram
from the German
Foreign Minister to
the German
Ambassador in
Mexico that was
intercepted by British
agents on January of
1917.
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The telegram
proposed an alliance
between Mexico and
Germany and
promised that if war
with the US broke out,
Germany would
support Mexico in
recovering it’s lost
territory in Texas,
New Mexico, and
Arizona.
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On April 2, 1917 President Wilson goes before
Congress to request a declaration of war against
Germany and its allies.
About 2 million troops reach Europe. Most had not
finished high school and one of every five was
foreign born.
The exact number of Mexican Americans who
served in the War is not certain. However, the
percentage of Mexican Americans who
volunteered was greater than that of any other
ethnic group in the nation. -The Latino Experience
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Honor Roll
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David Barkley- First Latino to receive
the Medal of Honor. Barkley
volunteered to spy on the position of
the German Army. He died in action,
but his maps of the area were carried
to his unit by his partner. The unit was
able to launch a successful attack
against the Germans.
Nicholas Lucero- Received the French
Croix de Guerre for destroying two
German machine gun positions and
for keeping constant fire on enemy
positions for more than three hours.
Marcelino Serna- Awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for singlehandedly capturing 2 German
prisoners. For later actions, Serna
received the French Croix de Guerre,
the Victory Medal with three bars, and
two Purple Hearts.
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The War caused a need for agriculture
production that was filled by Mexicans who
saw the opportunity to escape the Revolution
and feed their families. They worked the cotton
fields of Arizona and on the sugar beet farms of
California and Colorado. They also labored in
the copper mines of New Mexico and built
railroad lines throughout the US West. Mexican
American women, who often had to add to the
family income, took jobs in garment factories,
fish canneries, and food-processing pants.
Colorado, US
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In the fields and mines,
Mexican lived in colonias.
Ernesto Galarza says,
“The colonia was like a
sponge that was
beginning to leak along
the edges…but the colonia
found a place for these
chicanos, the name by
which we called unskilled
workers born in Mexico
and just arrived in the
US”.
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In the city, the
Mexican settled in all
Latino neighborhoods
called barrios. As late
as 1920, 92% of the
homes in the L.A.
barrio had no gas and
72% lacked electricity.
-The Latino Experience
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Ernesto Galarza 19051984
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By the end of WWI, there
were more than 65,000
Mexican Americans
living in the Mid West
and Northeast US.
By 1925, Chicago had
20,000 Mexican
Americans, the largest
population of Spanish
speaking people outside
the Southwest.