Reflecting On World War I Flashcard
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Read the excerpt from "How We Entered World War I." In the midst of it came the revelation of the telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann inviting Mexico into alliance as a belligerent. As a scheme to keep U.S. forces occupied on their own border, it offered to help Mexico regain her lost territories of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The author most likely uses the word "scheme" to
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show the reader that Germany was a legitimate threat to the United States.
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Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress." We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools. The text structure used to support the viewpoint in the paragraph is
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Main idea and Detail.
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Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress." Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. Wilson's word choice in the paragraph supports the idea that
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he understands the magnitude of the decision the country is faced with.
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Read the excerpt from the final paragraph of "Wilson's War Message to Congress." But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments. . . The most likely purpose of including this in the last paragraph is to
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establish a sense of patriotism and support for the war.
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How does the author of "How We Entered World War I" organize the information in the text?
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The author outlines events chronologically to give a complete account of the United States entering World War I.
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What is the best summary of the FIRST paragraph of "How We Entered World War I"?
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The United States was not considered a great power until it entered World War I, thus beginning its continual involvement in world affairs.
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What key detail in "Wilson's War Message to Congress" supports his argument for entering the war?
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Germany has sunk sea vessels regardless of the vessel's nationality.
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Which statement best describes the main idea of paragraph 5, which begins "For Wilson," in "How We Entered World War I"?
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The economy of the United States improved greatly after the ban on trade was removed.
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How does President Wilson organize paragraph 8, which begins "It is a distressing and oppressive duty," of "Wilson's War Message to Congress"?
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He states a main idea and offers details to make his point.
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Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress." We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools. How does Wilson organize the text to support the viewpoint in the paragraph?
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He states a main idea and offers details to make his point.
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Which statement best describes the main idea of the THIRD paragraph of "How We Entered World War I"?
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US citizens were proud of themselves for ignoring the problems going on in Europe.
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In "Wilson's War Message to Congress" the word "extraordinary" is repeated in order to
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emphasize the importance of the meeting and its special purpose.
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Read the final paragraph of "How We Entered World War I." In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed. America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence. That screen, too, must fall. Which best explains the purpose of repeating the word "illusion" in the paragraph?
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to emphasize that the United States was never completely isolationist nor will it ever be all powerful
