Homework Chapter 22 – Flashcards
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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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What motivated the rebellion of Mexican farmers led by Pancho Villa in 1916-1917?
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The rebels believed the new American-Backed government had betrayed the revolutions promise to help the common people.
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What triggered the outbreak of World War I in 1914?
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Bosnian Serb terrorists.
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How did President Wilson respond to the initial outbreak of war in Europe in 1914?
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Proclaimed Americas absolute neutrality.
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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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How did Germany react to the 1914 blockade?
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With a submarine blockade of Great Britain.
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How did President Wilson respond to the Germans' sinking of the Lusitania?
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Wilson threatened a break in diplomatic relations with Germany.
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Why did Germany decide to resume unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917?
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Germany felt it could win the war before the U.S. could bring its army to Europe.
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Describe the Zimmermann telegram that made headlines in 1917.
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It promised Mexico its lost provinces in the U.S. if it would declare war on its northern neighbor.
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What was the immediate cause of President Wilson's decision to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in 1917?
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Once Congress declared war against Germany in April 1917, what did President Wilson state was the Americans' goal in the war?
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German Submarine attacks on American vessels in the sea lanes to Great Britain.
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Why did Woodrow Wilson select General John Pershing to command the American Expeditionary Force in Europe?
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Which nation suffered the most casualties in World War I?
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Germany
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What did President Wilson do to ensure the loyalty of an immigrant nation to the cause of war?
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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 the Home front.
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What reform or reforms did the National War Labor Policies Board enact successfully during World War I?
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The eight-hour day, a living minimum wage, and collective bargaining rights for workers in industry.
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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 states.
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Why did President Wilson create the Committee on Public Information?
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To stir up patriotism with posters, pamphlets, cartoons, and press releases.
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What resulted from the patriotic fervor that grew in the United States during World War I?
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The German language disappeared from public school curricula.
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Why did the U.S. government pass the Espionage Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and the Sedition Act during World War I?
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To punish anything, it considered disloyal, 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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Wilsons rivals used the war to achieve a Republican majority in the house and senate.
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What did President Wilson call for in his Fourteen Points?
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Free trade and the right of European to self-determination.
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Why were the Germans outraged by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
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They had agreed to an armistice based on Wilson's fourteen points.
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How were Wilson's Fourteen Points honored in the Versailles treaty?
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The Versailles treaty included the establishment of the League of nations.
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Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge strongly oppose the Treaty of Versailles?
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Believed membership in the league of nations would jeopardize the nations freedom to make its own foreign policy.
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Why did the United States failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations?
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President Wilson would not compromise on the terms of the treaty.
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What was the outcome of the return to free enterprise in the United States after World War I?
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A rise in unemployment and new conflicts between business and labor.
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How did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Schenck v. United States (1919)?
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It ruled that Charles Schenk's actions posed a clear and present danger to the nation in the time of war.
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How did African Americans seek to escape the South's cotton fields and kitchens between 1915 and 1920?
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They left the south for northern industrial cities such as Detroit and Cleveland.
