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Question 1.
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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. 
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In 1916, President Wilson ordered an American military incursion into led by General John Pershing. 
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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. 
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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. 
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During World War I, the had almost unlimited power to mobilize the American economy, fix prices, and allocate resources. 
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President Wilson appointed the head of the Belgium Relief Commission, , to mobilize America's agricultural resources during World War I. 
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During World War I, the Act threatened arrest and imprisonment for anyone who criticized the American government. 
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President Wilson's plan for peace, called the , lifted the hopes for peace everywhere in January 1918. 
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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. 
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The peace settlement reached at the Paris peace conference in 1919 was called the Treaty. 
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Question 11.
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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. 
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Question 12.
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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. 
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Question 13.
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During the 1919 to 1920 , Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted a ruthless campaign to suppress American radicals. 
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Idaho Senator led the "irreconcilables" in their uncompromising opposition to U.S. membership in the League of Nations. 
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The secretary of state who chose to resign rather than sign a note demanding certain pledges from Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania was . 
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To consolidate the country's new position in the Caribbean and to strengthen America's two-ocean navy, Roosevelt desired . 
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With the the United States and Japan promised to maintain the status quo in the Pacific and support Chinese independence. 
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Rejecting "dollar diplomacy," Wilson initially intended to follow a course of to settle international disputes by right rather than might. 
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Question 19.
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The longtime president of Mexico who invited foreign investments into the Mexican economy was . 
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At the outbreak of war in Europe, Wilson proclaimed and asked the American people to remain impartial in thought and action. 
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Question 21.
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The new weapon that violated traditional rules of warfare and strained United States German relations was the . 
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The issue that dominated the presidential election of 1916 was peace or . 
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The Mexican leader whom Wilson refused to recognize, calling him instead "the butcher," was . 
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When Du Bois spoke of Blacks as being more proud and militant after the war, he used the term to describe them. 
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The commander of the U.S. expeditionary force in Mexico in 1916 and of U.S. forces sent to Europe in World War I was General . 
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The legislation creating the draft in 1917 was the Act. 
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The governmental agency responsible for mobilizing the workforce behind the war effort was the National . 
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Wilson's appointee to the Supreme Court in 1916, the first Jewish justice on the Court, was . 
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During World War I, Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the Powers, arraigned against the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia). 
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The government agency established to convince Americans that U.S. participation in World War I was needed and just was the , also known as the Creel Committee for its chairman. 
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