General John J. Pershing

(noun)

John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies.

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  • Intervention in Mexico

    • For both economic and political reasons, the American government generally supported those who occupied the seats of power, whether they held that power legitimately or not.
    • In response, President Wilson sent forces commanded by General John J.
    • Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa .
    • Pershing was forced to abandon the mission and return to the United States, and troops were withdrawn from Mexico by February 1917.
    • General Pershing led the expedition into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.

  • America's Early Role

    • In May 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Major General John J.
    • Pershing.
    • Pershing remained in command for the entire war.
    • In addition, Pershing insisted that the American force would not be used merely to fill gaps in the French and British armies, and he resisted European efforts to have U.S. troops deployed as individual replacements in decimated Allied units.
    • As an exception, Pershing did allow African-American combat regiments to be used in French divisions.

  • Commander-in-Chief

    • On the other hand, Woodrow Wilson paid very little attention to operational military details of World War I and had very little contact with General John J.
    • Pershing, who commanded the armies in the field.
    • An immensely popular hero of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur's public insistence on the need to expand the Korean War, over the objections of President Harry S.
    • President Abraham Lincoln, as commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A.

  • Wilson and Latin America

    • Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and then-General Emiliano Chamorro representing the Nicaraguan government.
    • In response, President Wilson sent forces commanded by General John J.
    • Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa.
    • Pershing was forced to abandon the mission and return to the United States.
    • General Pershing led the expedition into Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa.

  • The Call to Arms

    • General Enoch Crowder, the U.S.
    • Army’s Judge Advocate General, indicated his displeasure with the plan.
    • In May 1917, President Wilson appointed Major General John J.
    • Pershing as the U.S. armed forces commander.
    • Yet Pershing required that his soldiers were fully trained before going to Europe, resulting in few arriving before 1918.

  • The War in France

    • The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were the United States troops, often called “Doughboys”, sent to fight in France alongside the British and French armies against Germany under the command of Major General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing.
    • After the first offensive action and AEF victory at the Battle of Cantigny on May 28 and another at Belleau Wood beginning June 6, Pershing worked to deploy a full field army.
    • Pershing commanded more than 500,000 men in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken by U.S. forces to date.
    • This success was followed by the Meuse-Argonne offensive from September 26 to November 11, 1918, in which Pershing commanded more than 1 million American and French troops.

  • J.P. Morgan and the Financial Industry

    • John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier who consolidated many industries.
    • In 1892, Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric.
    • From 1860 to 1864, as J.
    • Anthony J.
    • He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J.

  • The Banana Wars

    • Secretary of State John Hay.
    • The U.S. military involvements with Mexico in this period are related to the same general commercial and political causes, but stand as a special case.
    • General John Pershing and his army came to Mexico to lead a nationwide search for Pancho Villa.

  • References

    • General Editor, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1995.
    • Boorstin, Daniel J.
    • Bynum, W.F., E.J.
    • Locke, John.
    • Pheby, John.

  • Self-Regulation and Volition

    • In his review of the literature, Alderman (1999) indicated that the formation of possible selves is influenced by developmental factors, sociocultural factors, attributional history and self-efficacy judgments.For example: John has an interest in media.He is influenced by his music teacher and decides to become a keyboard player.John tries to enhance his keyboard playing skills; his playing continually improves with practice.Encouragement from others and the positive experience of playing the keyboard increase his self-efficacy, which helps him to develop a concrete goal for the future.John attributes his success to internal, controllable, and stable causes.He stresses the value of effort over other factors.
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    • Result: In general, self-regulated learners are aware of effective learning strategies for enhancing learning performance.
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