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Learn more at Optum.com. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people. Up next, another installment of our Story of Us, the Story of America series with Hillsdale College professor and author of the terrific book Land of Hope, Dr. Bill McLeay. The election of 1912 brought the academic and deeply progressive Woodrow Wilson to the White House.
Less than two years later, the world was at war, and it soon wouldn't just change Europe forever, but us forever. Let's get into this story. Take it away, Bill. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it was completely unexpected—a violent outbreak across the Atlantic that Americans did not see coming. America had its own growing pains to deal with, and modern-day communications were nothing like today.
We were insulated from the trials of Europe thanks to a vast ocean, and happy about it. Indeed, it's why we wanted to be an independent nation to begin with. To the present, there's no real agreement on the causes of the war that forever changed Europe, and in the end, changed the world as well. One of them was the unification of Germany, which created uncertainty and instability. A competitor in the neighborhood, there was a new kid on the block, a formidable one.
It would change the way surrounding states planned and thought about their own destinies. Unified Germany would drive new alliances in Europe designed to protect themselves from this new competitor in the region.
Some of those alliances were out in the open; others were negotiated behind closed doors. A skirmish in Southeast Europe would end up being the catalyst that triggered many new treaties and alliances to be enforced and activated. Quickly, European nations were at war with one another.
Soon the dividing lines were clear. The Allied Powers—Britain, France, and Russia—battled the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. President Wilson, following President Washington's advice regarding foreign entanglements, issued a declaration of neutrality. Here's how the very short declaration began. My fellow countrymen.
I suppose that every thoughtful man in America has asked himself during these last troubled weeks what influence the European war may exert upon the United States, and I take the liberty of addressing a few words to you in order to point out that it is entirely within our own choice what its effects upon us will be, and to urge very earnestly upon you the sort of speech and conduct which will bear. Safeguard the nation against distress and disaster. Wilson wasn't finished. The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. It is natural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and desire among them with regard to the issues and circumstances of the conflict.
Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in the momentous struggle. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it. Those responsible for exciting it will assume a heavy responsibility, responsibility for no less a thing than that the people of the United States, whose love of their country and loyalty to its government should unite them as Americans all, bound in honor and affection, to think first of her and her interests, may be divided in camps of hostile opinion, hot against each other. Such divisions among us would be fatal to our peace of mind, and might seriously stand in the way of the proper performance of our duty as the one great nation at peace, the one people holding itself ready to play a part of impartial mediation and speak the counsels of peace and accommodation, not as a partisan, but as a friend. I venture, therefore, my fellow countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that deepest, most subtle, most essential breach of neutrality, which may spring out of partisanship, out of passionately taking sides.
The United States must be neutral, in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men's souls. It was clear that Wilson, for many good reasons, wanted to steer clear of any involvement with the battling powers in Europe, and it didn't matter in the early stages of the war because few prognosticators or experts could have imagined just how explosively this war would expand, and the horrifying body counts that would soon mount to unimaginable numbers. Take Verdun. The unsuccessful German offensive led to at least a million casualties, and on day one, just day one of the Battle of the Somme, twenty thousand British troops were killed, and forty thousand more were wounded. It was the worst single day in the very long history of the British Army.
When the battle ended twenty weeks later, twenty weeks later. The British army had endured 420,000 casualties. The French army, 200,000, and the Germans, an astonishing five to six hundred thousand. And none of it seemed to change anything. This too was good enough reason for America to stay out of this chaos.
Few in Europe could explain the war's origins, let alone the goals of the warring parties. Fewer still in America wanted to have anything to do with the unimaginable carnage. But staying neutral in the war proved to be difficult. And you've been listening to Professor Bill McLeay tell the story. Of those early years of the Wilson presidency, and you heard Wilson's statement of purpose, the neutrality that George Washington talked about when he first advised the nation on the avoidance of foreign entanglements.
When we come back, more of the Wilson presidency, World War One, and beyond. Here on Our American Stories. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories. And all of our history stories are brought to us by our generous sponsors, including Hillsdale College, where students go to learn all the things that are beautiful in life and all the things that matter in life. If you can't get to Hillsdale, Hillsdale will come to you with their free and terrific online courses.
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Bill McLeay. When we last left off, the Great War had broken out in Europe, and President Woodrow Wilson had publicly vowed to stay out of it. That would prove difficult. Here again is Bill McLeay. Staying neutral in the war proved to be difficult, especially given America's desire to continue trading with these warring European powers, and hoping that the long-standing notion of freedom of the seas and sea lanes would hold.
This idea of maintaining a permanent neutrality through the war was, to say the least, naive, because the policy would never be acceptable to our British friends, which would, in essence, strip them of their superior naval power, and in doing so, it would favor the new unified Germany. The Germans only made American neutrality more difficult when they set loose their mighty submarine fleet to attack Allied shipping activity. They launched countless torpedo attacks on merchant ships and even ships with neutral flags. This was not some secret ambition of the Germans. They, in fact, announced it to the world, declaring that any ship, any ship that entered what they described as the war zone around Great Britain.
Would do so at their own risk.
Well, it was bound to happen given Germany's stated policy, and it did. On May 7, 1915, German U-boats sank the British liner Lusitania, not far from Ireland's coast. 1,200 lives were lost, including 128 Americans. There was anger and outrage across America, and Wilson did his best to toughen up his language and do so without committing our nation to war. And for a time, his rhetoric and threats worked, as Germany suspended attacks on innocent ships dedicated to trade and trade alone.
Wilson's dexterity on the policy and rhetoric front would prove to be an asset as the 1916 election approached, and he would. Need to be at the top of his game for a simple reason: he was running against a reunited Republican Party, a party that was used to holding majorities in the nation's capital. To win reelection, Wilson would also need to do a balancing act between two competing principles: military preparedness and a continued effort to avert war. Doing both simultaneously would take some refined political talent. Wilson went to work.
On the preparedness front, Wilson moved Congress to pass a bill to increase the army to 176,000, still modest but an increase nonetheless. He also funded the building of 50 new warships in just the next fiscal year alone. Those two efforts would help his campaign on the preparedness front, but even more important was his continued effort to keep the American people out of the war. Indeed, the campaign's Logan rallying cry was this simple but profound message: "He kept us out of war." Wilson won against a much weaker Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, who had been a governor in New York and was a Supreme Court justice. But Wilson did not win by much, in some states by the very slimmest of margins.
Take California: out of nearly one million votes cast, Wilson won by a mere three thousand eight hundred. The win was, to say the least, not a mandate, and it was a harbinger of things to come. But that didn't deter Wilson, who was brimming with self-confidence, and inserted himself into the negotiations with the European powers to try and bring the war to an end, with America's moral leadership as his weapon. Wilson's first attempt at peacemaking and moral leadership was not met with enthusiasm by the foreign leaders. He had sent a message to them asking for terms upon which they'd agree to a settlement.
Not exactly the best way to go in any serious negotiation. Wilson was not deterred, and indeed his next effort was bolder. He gave a speech to the U.S. Senate in January of 1917. A speech directed not at America's senators, but to leaders of the European nations.
Here are some excerpts from that speech, which sounded more like a lecture from a college professor, which Wilson, of course, had been, than a great statesman. Here is Wilson: We shall have no voice in determining what those terms shall be. But we shall, I feel sure, have a voice in determining whether they shall be made lasting or not, by the guarantees of a universal covenant. And our judgment upon what is fundamental and essential as a condition precedent to permanency should be spoken now, not afterwards, when it may be too late. No covenant of cooperative peace that does not include the peoples of the new world can suffice to keep the future safe against war.
And yet, there is only one sort of peace that the peoples of America could join in guarantee.
Well, Wilson was just getting going. As confidence spilling into something more and more high and mighty and high-handed, Wilson continues. I have spoken upon these great matters without reserve and with the utmost explicitness, because it has seemed to me to be necessary. If the world's yearning desire for peace was anywhere to find free voice in utterance, perhaps I am the only person in high authority amongst all the peoples of the world who is at liberty to speak and hold nothing back. I am proposing that all nations henceforth.
Forth, avoid entangling alliances, which would draw them into competition of power. I am proposing government by the consent of the governed. That freedom of the seas, which in international conference after conference, representatives of the United States have urged with the eloquence of those who are the convinced disciples of liberty. These are the American principles, American policies. We could stand for no others, and they are also the principles and policies of forward-looking men and women everywhere, of every modern nation, of every enlightened community.
They are the principles of mankind, and must prevail. This was a fascinating speech or lecture on many levels. Wilson was inserting himself into the war not as a participant, but as a judge, a moral judge, standing not just outside the warring nations, but somehow above them. He was playing the role of a high school principal settling a fight between the school kids. Little did Wilson know that his high-handed address was being countered by actions the Germans had taken weeks before.
They'd made the decision to return to their all-out submarine assault on shipping lanes. The seas Germany made clear were no longer free. It would take more than a lecture from America to stop them. After five unarmed commercial American ships were sunk in the first week of March alone, Wilson went from lecturer to wartime president, seeking a declaration of war from Congress, which he got on April 6th. In the speech that followed, he delivered his most famous line, which became the World War I battle cry for America and a slogan.
We were making the world safe for democracy. We act without animus, not in enmity towards a people or with a desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed competition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amok. And you've been listening to Professor Bill McLeay, and while he's talking about Wilson's predicament, the idea that we could continue to stay neutral—well, it was just a fantasy. It was now time to win this war and to make the world safe for democracy. When we come back, more of the story of Wilson, World War One, and beyond.
Here on Our American Stories. Spending time outdoors. Then let's talk about skin cancer. Non-melanoma skin cancers, or NMSCs, including basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, are the most common cancers in the U.S. and can become harder to treat if left undetected.
That's why sun protection and timely detection matter. Our sponsor, Regeneron, is raising awareness about advanced NMSCs. Learn more and take the pledge to see a dermatologist annually. Let's get real about skincancer dot com. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans.
It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past two hundred and fifty years, and now it takes form in a new way. The twenty twenty six semi quincentennial coin and medal program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins.
At usmint.gov/semiq. That's usmint.gov/semiq. Upgrade to Elite Checking from America's Christian Credit Union and earn up to three point five percent APY, plus everyday perks and access to your paycheck up to two days early with Early Pay. Don't settle. Choose checking that rewards you and aligns with your values.
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NCUA insured. Power Slap 23 is live and free on YouTube on Thursday, September 17th. Dana White is bringing Power Slap to Texas for the first time on the campus of Texas Tech University. Two massive title fights headline the card, including Slap fighting legend Wolverine. Also on the card is former WWE champion Jay Cager and the debut of former UFC heavyweight Chris Barnett.
You can watch Power Slap 23 for free on Power Slap's YouTube channel Thursday, September 17th, for the first time from Texas. This is Power Slap's biggest card of the year. Oh my gosh, you can't be serious! You think making the pick is the hard part? No, it's not.
The pick takes like three seconds. You know what's hard? The sweat, the time between locking in and cashing out. Yeah, you have a take, but in the end, it's not about the winners or losers. This is about us, man.
Whether we're brave enough to sit through it, don't fight the sweat. Live in it. Because you are an underdog, underdog, unleash your dog. Terms may apply. Hey, this is Kevin.
This is Joe, and this is Nick from Hey Jonas. You know, recently I learned that every 36 minutes, another child in the U.S. is diagnosed with cancer. Think about that for a second.
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Next, so what will? At Optum, we're working every day to connect primary, specialty, and pharmacy care, and help lower prescription costs. Will we fix it all overnight? No, but we'll wake up trying again and again until healthcare works as one for everyone. That's healthy optimism.
Learn more at Optum.com. Optum. And we return to our American stories in the final portion of this installment of our Story of Us, Story of America series with Dr. Bill McLeay. When we last left off, the United States had declared war on Germany, officially entering the Great War.
Let's return to the story. Here again is Bill McLeay. Wilson proved to be a very able wartime president. He understood that the American economy would have to be mobilized. A draft would be necessary to mobilize an army, and all this would need to happen with great speed to have any chance of wounding and thwarting Germany's desires in Europe.
A string of new wartime agencies was created. The most important of which was the War Industries Board, led by the Wall Street wizard Bernard Baruch. The organization was given great power, setting production values, overseeing the production and distribution of raw materials. Baruch and his team also understood that America's industrial talents should be unleashed, so he encouraged them to use their mass production. Genius to increase the speed of production, about decreasing waste.
Other powers were conferred to the War Industries Board, including settling labor management issues that stem from the war's demands, and the War Industries Board worked. And worked remarkably well. Industrial production in America increased by a whopping twenty percent, proving to progressives that a central command, top-down control of American economy might produce real benefits, even in peacetime. With Wilson's war effort, some type of government agency or bureaucracy was in charge of nearly every sector of our economy. An international engineer who would one day become president, Herbert Hoover, was in charge of the massive Food Administration.
His goal: come up with a system of production incentives and rulemaking that would allow the country to avert food rationing. And that was no small task. The Fuel Administration was propelled into action, and among its many efforts, worked hard to save coal. And with that effort came the creation of daylight saving time. The Railroad Administration would take control of all railroad traffic.
Again, no small task. And the National War Labor Board would settle disputes between employees and employers. During this time of increased demand from America's vast industrial sector, four million men. All working age and able bodied left the workforce to serve in the military, which created a real opportunity and breakthrough on the race front. African Americans, especially from the Deep South, were recruited by the American government to move north and work in cities like Detroit and Chicago.
Nearly 500,000 would do so, and long before the ascent of Rosie the Riveter in World War II, women. Two were recruited to work at wartime factories in record numbers, and in jobs as diverse as machine shops, railway crews, and lumber yards. The fact is, World War One created a massive new workforce in America. Then there was the issue of morale in America. Wilson created the Committee on Public Information, led by a Denver journalist, George Creel.
They would put together what was essentially a propaganda committee to drive support for the war effort, enlisting public figures from all walks of American life—artists, athletes, performers, celebrities of every kind—all to promote support of the war and the financing of the war through the sale of war bonds. There were patriotic movies, newspaper ads, pamphlets of all kinds, all to get Americans on board and to do their part. The effort had mixed results. While it drove support for the war, it also had the effect of sounding like a moral crusade, and in the effort, villainized and exaggerated the enemy as somehow evil and even subhuman. One campaign slogan by the American Protective League said it all: "Hate the Hun." There were awful stories put in the public square that depicted German soldiers as absolute savages, men who murdered and slaughtered innocent children.
All of this would come at a cost to German Americans: discrimination, harassment, and worse, and all for the mere fact of having German ancestry. Sauerkraut was soon called Liberty Cabbage by Americans, and performances of the great German composers, from Bach to Beethoven, were canceled by American symphonies. The propaganda push by Wilson had unintended consequences. But legislative acts promoted by Wilson would essentially outlaw criticism of the war, a very different thing from drumming up support of the war. It took the form of the Espionage Act of 1917, imposing fines and even jail sentences for any person or effort to harm recruitment efforts of the United States military, or doing anything to aid or abet the enemy.
Worse, the Sedition Act of 1918 prohibited all kinds of speech otherwise protected by the First Amendment. The law prohibited American citizens to speak or write anything it deemed disloyal, profane, or abusive about either the American government or the military. The last two laws were not mere show or deterrence; they were actually enforced, and more than a thousand Americans were prosecuted and convicted under the two acts, including a man named Eugene Debs, who received a ten-year prison sentence for his advocacy of draft resistance. The fact is that balancing the principle of free speech with the interests of national security, especially during wartime, is a very difficult balancing act, and it has been so since our founding. Recall the Alien and Sedition Act during the administration of John Adams.
But history, notwithstanding, Wilson had little patience for dissent and was not receptive to contrary opinions. The ability for Wilson to compromise was sacrificed as a result. Moreover, this aspect of his personality and character would do him great harm in some of his most consequential and urgent upcoming decisions. But how did the progressive intellectuals that were such a part of Wilson's academic life view the war? It turns out that they viewed the war favorably because it managed to bring Americans together in common purpose and community that they deemed essential to take on the social evils of the day.
Many of those same intellectuals turned to a 1910 essay written by the philosopher William James, entitled "The Moral Equivalent of War." Here is an excerpt from James's essay. The martial type of character can be bred without war. Strenuous honor and disinterestedness abound everywhere. Priests and medical men are in fashion, educated to it, and we should all feel some degree of its imperative. We should be owned as soldiers are by the army, and our pride would rise accordingly.
We could be poor then, without humiliation, as army officers now are. The only thing needed henceforward is to inflame the civic temper, as past history has inflamed the military temper. But the reality is that social causes are not actual wars, no matter how much one believes or wishes that it was so. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery. Thanks as always to Bill McLeay.
He teaches at Hillsdale College, and my goodness, what we learned plunging into war, the propaganda efforts, and the good parts of that, and of course the bad. And that is of course the persecution of German Americans. Even worse than that, the clamping down on free speech. The story of us, this chapter, episode forty-three: The Great War and Wilson. Here.
On our American stories. Spending time outdoors, then let's talk about skin cancer. Non-melanoma skin cancers, or NMSCs, including basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, are the most common cancers in the U.S. and can become harder to treat if left undetected. That's why sun protection and timely detection matter.
Our Sponsor Regeneron is raising awareness about advanced NMSCs. Learn more and take the pledge to see a dermatologist annually at Let's Get Real About Skin Cancer dot com. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 semi-quintennial coin and medal program from the United States Mint it celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage.
Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins. At usmint.gov/semiq. That's usmint.gov/semiq. Upgrade to Elite Checking from America's Christian Credit Union and earn up to three point five percent APY, plus everyday perks and access to your paycheck up to two days early with Early Pay.
Don't settle. Choose checking that rewards you and aligns with your values. Visit America's Christian CU dot com forward slash iHeart. Minimum balance of one cent required to earn advertised APY. Early pay not guaranteed.
APY equals annual percentage yield. Membership eligibility. NCUA insured. Power Slap 23 is live and free on YouTube on Thursday, September 17. Dana White is bringing Power Slap to Texas for the first time on the campus of Texas Tech University.
Two massive title fights headline the card, including Slap fighting legend Wolverine. Also on the card is former WWE champion Jay Kager and the debut of former UFC heavyweight Chris Barnett. You can watch Power Slap 23 for free on Power Slap's YouTube channel Thursday, September 17, for the first time from Texas. PowerSlap's biggest card of the year. This episode is brought to you by Bobcat.
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