America and the Great War

In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis. A forthright examination of America's unprecedented military commitment and actions abroad, America and the Great War includes insights into the personalities of key Allied officers and civilian leaders as well as the evolution of the new American "citizen soldier." Full coverage is given to President Wilson's beleaguered second term, the experience of Americans-including women, minorities, and recent arrivals-on the home front, and the lasting changes left in the Great War's wake.

Foreword V Acknowledgments IX Chapter One: The Tangled paths to Horror in Europe 1 Bloodbaths But No Decision 6 A Time of many Excitements 15 America Enters the War 23 Chapter Two: Over There 28 In Come the Yanks 29 Emergence of the Citizen-Soldier 48 Chapter Three: Nineteen Months of Progress on the Home Front 59 Agencies of War 60 Life on the Home Front 65 Progressivism and Politics 75 Chapter Four: The Final Wilson Years 79 Retreat from Global Responsibility 81 End of an Era 90 Photographs and Illustrations follow page 70 Maps: Western Front: German End-the-War Offensives, March-July, 1918 41 Western Front: Allied Offensive, September-November, 1918 45 Bibliographical Essay 99 Index 113