World War I (SS5H2)

Photograph of World War I draftees, Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, 1917, Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives

SS5H2 DESCRIBE U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR I AND POST-WORLD WAR I AMERICA.

1. Explain how German attacks on U.S. shipping during the war in Europe (1914-1917) ultimately led the U.S. to join the fight against Germany; include the sinking of the Lusitania and concerns over safety of U.S. ships, U.S. contributions to the war, and the impact of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

2. Describe the cultural developments and individual contributions in the 1920s of the Jazz Age (Louis Armstrong), the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes), baseball (Babe Ruth), the automobile (Henry Ford), and transatlantic flight (Charles Lindbergh).

Suggested Collections (DLG)

• Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s : Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre (Middle Georgia Archives)

• For Our Mutual Benefit : The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920 (Athens-Clarke County Library)

• Georgia-related Publications from the Hathi Trust Digital Library (HathiTrust)

• Juliette Gordon Low papers (Georgia Historical Society)

• Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976 (Georgia State University. Special Collections)

• Legends of the Dead-Ball Era, 1909-1913 (Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies)

• Living Atlanta Oral History Collection (Atlanta History Center)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• World War, 1914-1918

• Lusitania (Steamship)

• World War, 1914-1918--War work

• Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28)

• Nineteen twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

• Baseball--History--20th century

• Automobiles, 1900 to 1929

• Aeronautics--United States--History--20th century

• Louis Armstrong

• Langston Hughes

• Babe Ruth

• Henry Ford

• Charles Lindbergh

• League of Nations

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• World War, 1914-1918

• Lusitania (Steamship)

• World War, 1914-1918--War work

• Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28)

• Nineteen twenties

• Roaring Twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

• Baseball--History--20th century

• Automobile industry and trade--History

  • Automobile industry--Michigan--Detroit

• Aeronautics--United States--History--20th century

• Louis Armstrong

• Langston Hughes

• Babe Ruth

• Henry Ford

• Charles Lindbergh

• The American Red Cross

• League of Nations

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• The American Red Cross

• Babe Ruth in the Georgia Press

• The League of Nations in the Georgia Press

• The World War in the Georgia Press

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Topics in Chronicling America - Babe Ruth

• Topics in Chronicling America - Baseball’s World Series, 1903-1922

• Topics in Chronicling America - Battleships and the pre-WWI Naval Arms Race

• Topics in Chronicling America - Flappers

• Topics in Chronicling America - American Female Pilots

• Topics in Chronicling America - Female Spies in World War I

• Topics in Chronicling America - Flappers

• Topics in Chronicling America - League of Nations

• Topics in Chronicling America - Silent Protest Parade

• Topics in Chronicling America - Sinking of the Lusitania

• Topics in Chronicling America - Treaty of Versailles

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I Armistice

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I Declarations

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I Planes

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I Poetry

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I Tanks

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I, American Red Cross

• Topics in Chronicling America - World War I, Christmas Truce

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• African American Soldiers in World War I

• American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings

• Beginnings of the American Red Cross

• Negro League Baseball

• The New Woman

• Patriotic Labor: America during World War I

• Treaty of Versailles and the End of World War I

• Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

• Women and the Blues

• World War I: America Heads to War

NGE Articles

• Art in Georgia from 1895 to 1960

• Ford Automobile

• Georgia Douglas Johnson

• Lindbergh in Georgia

• WWI in Georgia

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• Alexander Clark and the First Successful Desegregation Case in the United States

• Amelia Earhart | Aviator, Record-breaker, and Activist Video

• American Experience: Henry Ford

• American Experience: The Great War

• The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906

• Milestones of Flight: The Lindberghs | STEM in 30

• Red River Land | History of Travel | The Skies

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Georgia from WWI through the Great Depression

• Global Conflict

• Social Movements of the 20th Century*

Posters and Postcards

• SS5H2 poster

• SS5H2 postcard