Chapter Twenty-Two

Question 1

wilson and bryan did however agree with theodore roosevelt and taft, what gave americans special rights and responsibilities in the western hemisphere

Answer 1

Monroe Doctrine
Haiti
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic

Question 2

wilson’s most serious and controversial involvement was

Answer 2

Mexico

Question 3

tampico affair the event that sparks the war was

Answer 3

the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand

Question 4

wilson’s middle of the road strategy helps him win reelection in 1916

Answer 4

“he kept us out of war”

Question 5

germany resentful of neutral ships entering english waters while englands blockade starved then resumed

Answer 5

unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 6

wilson insists, not a war to destroy germany of for territorial conquest but

Answer 6

to make the world “safe for democracy”

Question 7

corporate profits tripled

Answer 7

war industries board

Question 8

national war labor policies board

Answer 8

•8 hr workday
•minimum wage
•collective bargaining rights

Question 9

the war aids

Answer 9

•18th amendments
•19th amendments

Question 10

wilson created the committee on public information

Answer 10

created to influence U.S. public opinion
regarding american participation
in world war I

Question 11

CPIs campaign created a firestorm of anti-german passion, hysteria reached absurd levels

Answer 11

•“100% american” campaigned
•german taught in schools a foreign language banned
•german names towns changed names
•german toast became french toast, sauerkraut to liberty cabbage

Question 12

espionage act

Answer 12

prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations

Question 13

in return for moderation wilson agreed to support ARTICLE 231

Answer 13

the war guilt clause

Question 14

wilson’s cause for democratic equality suffered a major set back whom the conference refused to recognize japans proposal for

Answer 14

“racial equality”

Question 15

4.8 million drafted

Answer 15

wilson signs selective service act of 1917

Question 16

unwilling to see the world return to the “balance of power” system wilson proposed a what?

Answer 16

league of nations

Question 17

four reasons why the senate rejected the versailles treaty

Answer 17

-•criticism had been mounting from three ethnic groups
irish, no independence ireland
-italians, not gained territory they deserved
-germans, ferociously unfair to germany
*irreconcilables - rejected the treaty: isolationism
•no republican wanted to hand wilson and the dems a foreign policy victory with the presidential election a year away
-wilson’s arch enemy henry cabot lodge, congressional war powers

Question 18

the red scare causes:

Answer 18

•postwar recession
•labor unrest
•high unemployment
•Bolsheviks revolution in russia

Question 19

in january ordered as a series of raids that netted 6,000 alleged subversives

Answer 19

palmer raids

Question 20

what’s ACLU mean

Answer 20

american civil liberties union