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Chapter 24: Woodrow Wilson and the Great War

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	When the Carranza government gained power in Mexico in 1914, it soon faced a revolt led by , who briefly enjoyed the support of President Wilson's administration.

	In 1916, President Wilson ordered an American military incursion into led by General John Pershing.

	Soon after World War I began in Europe in 1914, President Wilson announced he would hold to "strict accountability" for the loss of American lives and property that resulted from its conduct of war.

	In the February 1917 Zimmermann telegram, Germany proposed a military alliance with if the United States entered World War I on the side of the Allies.

	During World War I, the had almost unlimited power to mobilize the American economy, fix prices, and allocate resources.

	President Wilson appointed the head of the Belgium Relief Commission, , to mobilize America's agricultural resources during World War I.

	During World War I, the Act threatened arrest and imprisonment for anyone who criticized the American government.

	General commanded the American Expeditionary Force, the U.S. troops that went to Europe in 1917 and 1918.

	President Wilson's plan for peace, called the , lifted the hopes for peace everywhere in January 1918.

	The leaders of the United States, Great Britain, France, and were members of the so-called Big Four at the Paris peace conference in 1919.

	The peace settlement reached at the Paris peace conference in 1919 was called the Treaty.

	President Wilson believed that the would be able to deal with any shortcomings left over from the postwar settlement reached at the Paris peace conference.

	Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, a member of the party, led the opposition to President Wilson's effort to include the United States in the League of Nations.

	During the 1919 to 1920 , Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted a ruthless campaign to suppress American radicals.

	Idaho Senator led the "irreconcilables" in their uncompromising opposition to U.S. membership in the League of Nations.

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