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The 1912 presidential election was notable because

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it gave the voters a clear choice of political and economic philosophies

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Before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had been

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a state governor

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In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following EXCEPT a call for

a. tariff reductions.
b. dollar diplomacy.
c. antitrust legislation.
d. monetary reform.

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b. dollar diplomacy.

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Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom

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favored small enterprise and entrepreneurship

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Match each presidential candidate below with his political party.

A. Woodrow Wilson 1. Socialist
B. Theodore Roosevelt 2. Democratic
C. William Howard Taft 3. Republican
D. Eugene V. Debs 4. Progressive

a. A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
b. A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
c. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
d. A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4

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a. A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1

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Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism

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supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business

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As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson established a record as a

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passionate reformer

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When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt’s name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it

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symbolized the rising political status of women

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When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it intended the legislation to

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lower tariff rates

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In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson’s day when he

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personally delivered his presidential address to Congress

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Woodrow Wilson’s political philosophy included all of the following EXCEPT

a. scorn for the ideal of self-determination for minority peoples in other countries.
b. a belief that the president should provide leadership for congress.
c. faith in the masses.
d. a belief in the moral essence of politics.

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a. scorn for the ideal of self-determination for minority peoples in other countries

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In 1912, Woodrow Wilson became the first ____________________ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.

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person born in the South

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The Sixteenth Amendment provided for

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a personal income tax

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According to the text, the runaway philisophical winner in the 1912 election was

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progressivism

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Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable surrounded by

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academic scholars

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The Clayton-Antitrust Act

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explicitly legalized strikes and peaceful picketing

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Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the _____________________ “labor’s Magna Charta.”

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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The first Jew to sit on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was

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Louis D. Brandeis

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The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to

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issue paper money and increase the amount of money in circulation

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When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious shortcoming in the country’s financial structure was the

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currency was inelastic

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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking system through the final authority given to the

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presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board

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Woodrow Wilson’s attitude towards the masses can best be described as

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having faith in them if they were properly educated

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Congress passed the Underwood Tariff because

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President Wilson aroused public opinion to support its passage

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As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was

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inflexible and stubborn

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When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the

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working class

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Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?

a. Sussex
b. Lusitania
c. Arabic
d. None of these was an American ship.

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d. None of these was an American ship

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The Progressive “Bull Moose” party died when

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Teddy Roosevelt refused to run as the party’s presidential candidate in 1916

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With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans

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earnestly hoped to stay out of the war

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President Wilson insisted that he would hold __________________ to “strict accountability” for __________________.

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Germany; the loss of American ships and lives to submarine warfare

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Central Powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria

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ABC Powers

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Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

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Woodrow Wilson’s early efforts to conduct an anti-imperialist U.S. foreign policy were first undermined when he

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sent American marines to Haiti

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Allies

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France, Britain, Russia, Japan, and Italy

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Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased all of the following countries EXCEPT

a. Haiti.
b. the Dominican Republic.
c. the Virgin Islands.
d. Cuba.

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d. Cuba.

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Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson’s approach to American foreign policy diplomacy?

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moralistic

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From 1914 to 1916, trade between the United States and Britain

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pulled the American economy out of a recession

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President Woodrow Wilson refused to intervene in the affairs of Mexico until

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American sailors were arrested in the Port of Tampico

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One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it

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conducted an immense amount of trade with the Allies

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German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning

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in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany

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In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised

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not to sink passenger ships without warning

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Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by

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accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy

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As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the______________________, while Russia and France were among the _____________________.

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Central Powers; Allies

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Woodrow Wilson’s administration refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by

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Victoriano Huerta

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President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by

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pledging to make the war “a war to end all wars” and to make the world safe for democracy

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During World War I, the government’s treatment of labor could be best described as

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fair

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The major problem with George Creel and his Committee on Public Information was that

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he oversold Wilson’s ideals and led the world to expect too much

47
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The United States declared war on Germany

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after German U-boats sank four unarmed American merchant vessels

48
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The Zimmerman note involved a proposed secret agreement between

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Germany and Mexico

49
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When the United States entered World War I, it was

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poorly prepared to leap into global war

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Which of the following was NOT among Wilson’s Fourteen Points upon which he based America’s idealistic foreign policy in World War I?

a. reduction of armaments.
b. abolition of secret treaties.
c. a new international organization to guarantee collective security.
d. international religious freedom and toleration.

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d. international religious freedom and toleration.

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Match each civilian adminitrator below with the World War I mobilization agency that he directed

A. George Creel 1. War Industries Board
B. Herbert Hoover 2. Committee on Public Information
C. Bernard Baruch 3. Food Administration
D. William Howard Taft 4. National War Labor Board

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A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4

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As a result of their work supporting the war effort, women

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finally received the right to vote

53
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President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when

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Germany announced that it would wage unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic

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President Wilson viewed America’s entry into World war I as an opportunity for the United States to

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shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy

55
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During World War I, civil liberties in America were

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denied to many, especially those suspected of disloyalty

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The two groups who suffered most from the violation of civil liberties during World War I were

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German Americans and social radicals

57
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Two constitutional amendments adopted in part becuse of wartime influences were the Eighteenth, which dealt with ____________________________, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was ____________________________.

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prohibition; woman suffrage

58
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Grievances of labor during and shortly after World war I include all of the following EXCEPT

a. suppression of the American Federation of Labor.
b. the inability to gain the right to organize.
c. violence against workers by employers.
d. war-spawned inflation.

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a. suppression of the American Federation of Labor.

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Most wartime mobilization agencies relied on _________________ to prepare the economy for war.

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voluntary compliance

60
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Those who protested conscription during World War I did so because

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they disliked the idea of compelling a person to serve

61
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When the United States entered the war in 1917, most Americans did not believe that

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it would be necessary to send a large American army to Europe

62
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Russia’s withdrawl from World War I in 1918 resulted in

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the release of thousands of German troops for deployment on the front in France

63
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As a condition of ending World War I, Woodrow Wilson demanded that

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the German kaiser be forced from power

64
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The second battle of the Marne was significant because it

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marked the beginning of a German withdrawl that was never reversed

65
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The supreme military commander of American forces during World War I was

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John J. Pershing

66
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The 1919 steel strike resulted in

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a grievous setback crippling the union movement for a decade

67
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The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort EXCEPT

a. forcing some people to buy war bonds.
b. having “heatless Mondays” to conserve fuel.
c. seizing enemy merchant vessels trapped in American harbors.
d. using government power extensively to regulate the economy.

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d. using government power extensively to regulate the economy.

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The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in

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racial violence in the North

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In order to make eonomic mobilization more efficient during World War I, the federal government took over and operated

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the railroads

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Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from

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loans from the American public

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The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces were engaged were

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St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

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The World War I military draft

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generally worked fairly and effectively to provide military manpower

73
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During World War I, American troops fought in all of the following countries EXCEPT

a. Russia.
b. Czechoslovakia.
c. Belgium.
d. Italy.

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b. Czechoslovakia

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In Congress, the most reliable support for Wilson’s position on the League of Nations came from

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Democrats

75
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The Senate likely would have accepted American participation in the League of Nations if Wilson had

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been willing to compromise with League opponents in Congress

76
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The chief difference between Woodrow Wilson and the parliamentary statesman at the Paris peace table was that Wilson

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did not command a legislative majority at home

77
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The initial Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles was to

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delay and amend the treaty

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The United States’ main contribution to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following EXCEPT

a. munitions.
b. battlefield victories.
c. oil.
d. foodstuffs.

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b. battlefield victories

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Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding’s preidential victory into a

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death sentence for the League of Nations

80
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Senate opponents of the League of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles argued that it

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robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers

81
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Woodrow Wilson’s call for a “solemn referendum” in 1920 referred to

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his belief that the presidential election should determine the fate of the Treaty of Versailles

82
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Opposition to the League of Nations by many United States Senators during the Paris Peace Conference

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gave Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position

83
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The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it

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did not include the United States

84
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After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson

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was condemned by both disillusioned liberals and frustrated nationalists and imperialists

85
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The Germans were heavily demoralized by

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the United States’ unlimited troop reserves

86
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Woodrow Wilson’s ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to

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establish the League of Nations

87
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At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals EXCEPT

a. preventing a seizure of territory by the victors.
b. an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia.
c. a world parliament of nations to provide collective security.
d. free trade and freedom of the seas.

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b. an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia

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In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was

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Article X

89
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Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles?

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Woodrow Wilson

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