1. Read: America and the Great War - Document Overview
2. Read: President Wilson Asks For War With Congress, April 20, 1914
3. Read: The Nation on Mexico (1914)
4. Read: The Fourteen Points (1918)
5. Read: The League of Nations (1919)
6. Read: The League of Nations Must Be Revised (1919), Henry Cabot Lodge

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1. View: "A Near Futurist Painting" by Wilson
2. View: General Victoriano Huerta
3. View: Pancho Villa and His Followers
4. View: A Liberty Loan poster
5. View: Food Will Win the War
6. View: Women workers on the Great Northern Railway, Great Falls, Montana
7. View: Troops moving to an advanced position on the front, France
8. View: A gun crew firing on entrenched German positions
9. View: Salvation Army worker writing a letter home for a wounded soldier
10. View: Wilson welcomed as a hero in Europe
11. View: Three Senators Refuse the Lady a Seat
12. View: Women weaving
13. View: Johannes Staden, 1593 (II)
14. View: Yanks play abandoned German piano
15. View: During WWI, many African-Americans migrated north
16. View: African-Americans leave the South for northern industry
17. View: African-Americans were the largest source of labor after all others had been exhausted
18. View: A lynching
19. View: The migration gained in momentum
20. View: Many migrants found poor housing conditions in the North
21. View: Antagonism between white and African American workers resulted in race riots
22. View: Office workers with gauze masks during the Spanish flu epidemic, 1918

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1. View: Europe at War, 1914
2. View: The Western Front, 1918
3. View: Europe after Versailles

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1.  Former U.S. Ambassador to German, James Gerard Watson
2.  General J. J. "Black Jack" Pershing
3.  Over There performed by Billy Murray; from the Library of Congress

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