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1 .       Although it entered the war relatively late, U.S. sacrifices for victory in World War I were equal to those of Britain and France. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       President Wilson rejected the "big stick" and "dollar diplomacy" of his predecessors, and instead followed a course that renounced the use of force in Latin American relations. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       The Selective Service Act allowed favoritism and discrimination to occur in the drafting of manpower for World War I. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       President Wilson's phrase "peace without victory" suggested that all nations should be treated as equals in the postwar period. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       New defensive weapons and traditional frontal assaults dominated military strategy in World War I. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       W. E. B. Du Bois thought World War I would bring down the "walls of prejudice" created by the Jim Crow laws. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       The idea of neutral rights was compromised by the British from the beginning of World War I. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       President Wilson's Fourteen Points would lead to the creation of several new nations across eastern Europe. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was prophetic in that it said Germany must never be allowed to rearm or another war would ensue. [Hint]

 
 






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