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vol. 3: Research on the German-American Experience of World War One; vol. 4: The World War Two Experience: the Internment of German-Americans section 1: From Suspicion to Internment: U.S. government policy toward German-Americans, 1939–48; section 2: Government Preparation for and implementation of the repatriation of German-Americans, 1943 ...
German Americans in early 1917 still called for neutrality, but proclaimed that if a war came they would be loyal to the United States. By this point, they had been excluded almost entirely from national discourse on the subject. [61] German-American Socialists in Milwaukee, Wisconsin actively campaigned against entry into the war. [62]
The U.S.–German Peace Treaty was a peace treaty between the U.S. and the German governments. It was signed in Berlin on August 25, 1921 in the aftermath of World War I . The main reason for the conclusion of that treaty was that the U.S. Senate did not consent to ratification of the multilateral peace treaty signed in Versailles , thus ...
Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria led to the removal of German names in public, names of things such as streets, [100] and businesses. [101]
Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (1919) 511 pages online edition; Slosson, Preston William. The Great Crusade and after, 1914–1928 (1930). social history [ISBN missing] Titus, James, ed. The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective (1984) essays by scholars ...
The publicly stated goals were to uphold American honor, crush German militarism, and reshape the postwar world. After a slow mobilization, the United States of America helped bring about a decisive victory by supplying badly needed financing, food, and millions of fresh and eager soldiers.
German-Americans rarely supported Nazi Germany, but most called for American neutrality, as they had done in 1914–1917. [107] The attack on Pearl Harbor evoked strong pro-American patriotic sentiments among German Americans, few of whom by then had contacts with distant relatives in the old country. [108] [109] [110]
The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective (1984) essays by scholars. online free; Tucker, Spencer C., and Priscilla Mary Roberts, eds. The Encyclopedia of World War I : A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2005) Vaughn, Stephen.