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STUDY QUESTIONS: The Century: America’s Time, 1914-1919: Shell Shock 1. What did European leaders seek to gain by entering the Great War?

2. What was the United States’ official position at the beginning of the Great War? neutral 3. In the years prior to the outbreak of the war, how was life changing for Americans? Car production, movies, 4. Why did Americans share and sympathize with the British view of the Germans? propaganda 5. Why was the war in Europe “good for America” by early 1915? Us banks were lending money to countries in the war and they spent that money on arms from the us 6. What was the war’s effect on American labor? Where did American employers look for labor? Anti-European immigration; blacks 7. Where did European leaders look for the manpower to fight the war? Their colonies 8. What do the filmmakers mean by the “industrialization of war”? What weapon “allowed a single solider to command as much power as forty rifleman”? What was the “most terrifying weapon of all”? new weapons; machine gun; poison gas 9. What happened to the Russian Empire during World War I? full scale revolution 10. What actions by Germany left U.S. President Woodrow Wilson with “no other option” but to enter the war? What did Wilson hope to accomplish by entering the war? Attacks on unarmed ships and they told mexico to invade the us

11. Why were young American men attracted to serving in the war? Being part of the “last great war” 12. What problems did American troops face when they arrived in Europe to fight in the war? Badly armed, poorly trained, and unprepared 13. How did the German military respond when American troops poured into Europe? That major offensive; threats to paris 14. What “uncertain future” did American veterans face when they returned home at the end of the war? The economy was shrinking; no jobs; couldn’t finish college 15. What were the main components of Wilson’s “Fourteen Points”? What were the goals of the victorious British and French governments at Versailles? What was Versailles about “in the end”? liberty; it was about punishment 16. What would be the legacy of the end of World War I? anything but the end of all wars

STUDY QUESTIONS: The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History How did popular literature portray the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan (KKK) or the “Invisible Empire”?

Where and when was the Ku Klux Klan “reborn”?

How did the 1915 film Birth of a Nation depict the Klan? How did black Americans respond to the film?

What was key point of the 1920s Klan’s successful recruitment strategy? Who could be a member of the Klan? Which groups were its enemies?

What “fear” did the Klan "tap" in its members? What did the Klan promise its members?

What was the result of 1921 investigations of the Klan by the New York Worldnewspaper and by U.S. Congress?

How did Klan recruiters use Protestant churches to attract new members?

How was the Klan’s message “palatable” during the 1920s?

What depiction of Klan members does the film offer in place of the stereotype of the Klan member as “unschooled” and “savage”?

How did women who supported Klan ideas take part in the organization?

What does the film provide as evidence of the Klan’s political power?

Which U.S. Senator recanted his Klan membership when he became a U.S. Supreme Court justice?

According to the film, most of the Klan’s violence was directed at which group?

Which two groups bore the main brunt of the Klan’s “religious terrorism”?

Why were Klan members in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, confident that they could “get away” with murder? How did Louisiana governor John Parker respond to the Klan violence in Morehouse Parish? What was the result of the two grand jury hearings into the Klan murders in Morehouse Parish?

What was the most popular anti-Klan state law?

What state featured the Klan’s greatest success story and its most despicable horror? What was Klan leader D. C. Stephenson’s “technique” for gaining politicians’ support? What event destroyed Stephenson and the Klan in his state? What happened to the Klan in the wake of the Stephenson scandal?

What event did Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans stage in the wake of the Stephenson scandal?

How did the Klan’s total membership change from 1925 to 1928?

What does one of the film’s commentator mean by the notion that the 1920s Klan “destroyed itself”?...