WWI+Economic+Team

=World War I: Economic Team= Grace, Sam, Corinne, Lindsey

Documents 1-4 By Sam

Document 1 (1914) •	The United States will not enter the war because we want to carry on commerce and trade with those who are involved in the war •	At first, the economy is the focus and reason for not entering the war; however, we will soon see that in order to protect our economy, entering the war might be necessary and unavoidable

Document 2 (1914) •	The questioning of whether or not America, a neutral nation, should be loaning to France, a nation involved in the war – is that the best decision for our economy? o	In order to prevent war, America should not be loaning to the French •	US knows: money controls everything

Document 3 (1915) •	It is a risk for Americans to disobey the Germans and travel on British ships •	Make Britain withdraw their threats upon Americans

Document 4 (1915) •	Portrays the Germans as evil murders •	They killed innocent families •	America would rather side with Europe, the “thieves”, rather than Germany, the “murderers”—both are evil, but a thief is better than a murderer

Documents 8-11: by Grace

Document 8: primary source
 * England's Blockade Rule with a stick- caption on the bottom says "Britannia Must Be Careful How She Waves the Rules"
 * All babies (labeled commerce) running around crying.
 * Britain "trying to hit" Germany (symbolic of Britain's attempt to attack Germany by blockade) but causing all of this chaos with the world's commerce
 * neutral commerce and american shipping (because America cannot ship things to Germany) in distress
 * the war between Britain and Germany is causing OUR economy to be in turmoil-- we have to do something about this-- enter the war

Document 11:
 * Senator George Norris speaking about the effect of the war on finances at home:
 * "The soldier who for the...compensation of $16 per month shoulders his musket and goes into the trench"
 * "War brings prosperity to the stock gambler on Wall Street- to those who are already in possession of more wealth than can be realized or enjoyed...their object in having war and in preparing for war is to make money. the enormous profits of munition manufacturers, stockbrokers, and bond dealers must be still further increased by our entrance into the war"
 * entering the war to make U.S. industry boom?
 * high classes profiting, low classes not--> war costing TONS of money