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Topic 24: The Nation at 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.

	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.

	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 .

	To consolidate the country's new position in the Caribbean and to strengthen America's two-ocean navy, Roosevelt desired .

	With the the United States and Japan promised to maintain the status quo in the Pacific and support Chinese independence.

	Rejecting "dollar diplomacy," Wilson initially intended to follow a course of to settle international disputes by right rather than might.

	The longtime president of Mexico who invited foreign investments into the Mexican economy was .

	At the outbreak of war in Europe, Wilson proclaimed and asked the American people to remain impartial in thought and action.

	The new weapon that violated traditional rules of warfare and strained United States German relations was the .

	The issue that dominated the presidential election of 1916 was peace or .

	The Mexican leader whom Wilson refused to recognize, calling him instead "the butcher," was .

	When Du Bois spoke of Blacks as being more proud and militant after the war, he used the term to describe them.

	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 .

	The legislation creating the draft in 1917 was the Act.

	The governmental agency responsible for mobilizing the workforce behind the war effort was the National .

	Wilson's appointee to the Supreme Court in 1916, the first Jewish justice on the Court, was .

	During World War I, Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the Powers, arraigned against the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia).

	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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