• The Preparedness Movement was a campaign led by former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Leonard Wood, and former President Theodore Roosevelt to strengthen...
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  • are different types of preparedness, such as public health preparedness and local emergency preparedness or snow preparedness, but probably the most developed...
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    furious denunciations of German brutality. In Eastern cities a new "Preparedness" movement emerged. It argued that the United States needed to build up immediately...
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    war started with the Preparedness movement, fueled by big business. While big business would not push much further than Preparedness, benefitting the most...
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    July 22, 1916, of a parade organised by local supporters of the Preparedness Movement which advocated American entry into World War I. During the parade...
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  • the United States entered World War I, private citizens of the Preparedness Movement set up what were known as the "Plattsburg camps" to build a reserve...
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    After the outbreak of World War I, Stimson became part of the Preparedness Movement. He served as an artillery officer in France after the United States...
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  • Preparedness Movement (U.S. politics) of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt to ready the U.S. military Preparedness Day (22 July) Preparedness Day Bombing...
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    program, and the Preparedness Movement, a campaign for universal military training and wartime conscription. The Preparedness Movement led to implementation...
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    remained publicly supportive of Wilson, Roosevelt sympathized with the Preparedness Movement, whose leaders strongly favored the Allied Powers and called for...
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