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His Mexican followers seized a trainload of gold from an American-owned mine and killed seventeen American engineers in 1916

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Francisco "Pancho" Villa

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The leader of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I

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John "Black Jack" Pershing

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Portrayed by Britain as outlaw weapons that violated notions of civilized warfare

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U-boats

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The british passenger liner torpedoed and sunk by the Germans in 1915

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Lusitania

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Secretary of state under President Wilson who resigned in 1915, when he realized his pacifist goals would not be met

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William Jennings Bryan

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Public agency created to disseminate patriotic propaganda and generally instill a pro-war fervor among Americans

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Committee on Public Information

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Alliance formed by Great Britain, France, and Russia as part of a complex network of alliances intended to balance power and prevent war in Europe

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Triple Entente

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Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol

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Eighteenth Amendment

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Formal ending to World War I

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Versailles treaty

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Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote.

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Nineteenth Amendment

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Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed as part of a complex network of alliances intended to prevent war in Europe by balancing power.

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Triple Alliance

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The American blueprint, created by Woodrow Wilson, for a new democratic order after World War I

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Fourteen Points

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Organization championed by Woodrow Wilson to provide mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike

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League of Nations

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Massachusetts Republican who led the Senate opposition to the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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President Wilson chose William Jennings Bryan to serve as his secretary of state in 1912 because

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Bryan was an avowed pacifist

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Which precedent guided President Wilson's policies toward Latin America

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The Monroe Doctrine

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President Wilson's most controversial action in Latin America during his first term as president was his

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intervention in Mexico's affairs after the Mexican revolution

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The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by

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the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Bosnian Serb terrorist

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President Wilson responded to the initial outbreak of war in Europe in 1914

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with a proclamation of America's absolute neurality

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What view formed the basis for President Wilson's foreign policy?

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America's moral duty to support national self-determination, peaceful free trade, and political democracy

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Which divisions did European countries establish before the outbreak of World War I?

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The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance

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Which of the following describes the Zimmermann telegram that made headlines in 1917

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It promised Mexico its lost provinces in the United States if it would declare war on its northern neighbor

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Once Congress declared war against Germany on April 1917, President Wilson stated the Americans' goal in the war was to

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vindicate the principles of peace and justice

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The Selective Service Act of 1917 authorized the armed forces to conscript

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all young men

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Which event finally led to the creation of a separate American command in Europe in March 1918

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The Brest-Litovsk

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To ensure the loyalty of an immigrant nation to the cause of war, President Wilson

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launched a government-sponsored propaganda campaign to foster patriotism among ethnic groups

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How did President Wilson demonstrate his progressive credentials when the United States entered the war in 1917

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He created new federal agencies to deal with the specific needs of the troops and home front

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What reform or reforms did the National War Labor Board enact successfully during during World War I

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The eight-hour day, a living minimum wage, and a collective bargaining rights for workers in industry

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What was the impact of the labor shortage that resulted from the mobilization of U.S. troops in 1917

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Expanded employment opportunities for women

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The war provided a huge boost for the temperance movement and led to what outcome by late 1917

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Congressional passage of the Eighteenth Amendment

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What event finally spurred the granting of suffrage to all American women in 1920

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Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, which was subsequently ratified by two-thirds of the state

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President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to

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stir up patriotism with posters, pamphlets, cartoons, and press releases

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The U.S. government passed the Espionage Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and the Sedition Act during World War I

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punish anything it considered disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive

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What was the impact of World War I on partisan politics in the 1918 elections in the United States

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Wilson's rivals used the war to achieve a Republican majority in the House and Senate

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In his Fourteen Points, President Wilson called for

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free trade and the right of Europeans to self-determination

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What did the Allies hope to gain in negotiating the 19119 peace treaty in Paris

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Disarmament and punishment for Germany

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Which group of American senators opposed the Treaty of Versailles

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Republican irreconcilables

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The United States failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations because

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President Wilson would not compromise on the terms of the treaty

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True or False. Germany refused to accept the 1909 Declaration of London

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False

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True or False. In 1915, A german submarine sand the American passenger liner, the Lusitania

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False

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Germany's pledge during World War I not to sink merchant ships without warning was known as the _____ pledge

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Sussex

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During the election of 1916, Wilson's slogan was

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He kept us out of war

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The United States officially entered the Great War on _______

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April 6, 1917

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True or False. The Food Administration was headed by future president, Herbert Hoover.

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True

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During World War I, the hamburger became known as ______

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the Liberty Sandwich

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