Topic 1-5
1. How did Woodrow Wilson decide to continue trading while still staying neutral?
He didn't, he soon realized it was impossible to favor neither power and continue trading.
6. What was the main reasoning behind the foreign policy realists belief that we should go to war with Germany?
The belief/ reasoning that these individuals believes we should go to war is because they think that if Germany won the shift in power would affect the balance(in other words Germany would become too powerful).
11. Why were President Wilsons bothers about going to war dissolved on Match 15th?
This was because on March 15th Russia's "autocratic Czar" was overthrown and they were now a republic.
16. Why would W.E.B Du Bois be "bitterly disappointed" when the war ended?
He would be disappointed because he believed that believed that because African Americans had served for the U.S. In the Military, they would be given equal rights. They were not.
21. While it may not be called the same thing, what is the League of Nations today?
Today, it is called the United Nations or U.N.
2. How did President Wilson use being a neutral Country to his advantage?
He used his position as a neutral nation to essentially give our ships immunity as long as we were still neutral.
7. What is the name of the act that increased the size of the army?
This was called the National Defense Act.
12. How did U.S. citizens help with The war effort and mobilization?
They helped by paying taxes and putting money in government bonds, and higher positioning people such as Bernard Baruch helped with various more vital things.
17. Why was the 19th amendment made/passed?
It was made/passed because while a majority of the men were at war, the women were the ones working and contributing to the war effort.
22. According to the treaty of Versailles, what does Germany have to do for losing the war?
They have to pay France and England a large sum of money, return all the territory they took, and join the League of Nations.
3. How was the Lusitania incident a challenge to the neutrality of the U.S?
It was so because it killed U.S. citizens and it made President Wilson write a strongly worded letter to Germany.
8. How did President Wilson try to live up to the phrase "He Kept Us Out Of War"?
He attempted to do this by sending his chief foreign policy adviser to the powers to propose and negotiate a peace settlement. He also gave a speech to the senate declaring "Peace without victory".
13. How did the phrase "Do your bit" devolve into hatred of everything German?
This was caused by pure hysteria from the shock of war, and patristic enthusiasm, along with nativists using it as an excuse accuse minorities of be spies.
18. What is the reason for the large increase in African American population across the U.S?
The reason for the immense growth in the U.S' African American population is the Great Migration, which occurred from around 1910-1970.
23. What were the main problems with the Treaty of Versailles according to the senate?
It might allow European nations to violate the Monroe Doctrine, and it doesn't have the people they want in it.
4. How did President Wilson take advantage of the war, even though it affected his neutral positioning?
He took advantage of the immense demand for supplies and weapons, and helped businesses thrive by selling to France and England.
9. Why did President Wilson Break off diplomatic ties to Germany one month into his second term as president?
He did this because Germany alerted him if their plans to cut off the supplies to the allied powers and attack/win the war before we could react.
14. Under the Espionage and Sedition acts, when can the first amendment(freedom of speech) be limited?
The freedom of speech can be limited when it represents a clear and present danger to public safety.
19. What was the U.S. response to their ships to England consistently being sunk?
24. What caused the red scare?
The red scare was caused by the recent inflammation, combined with general unhappiness, and the communist takeover in Russia.
5. What major crisis enforced the negative opinions the American people had of Germany and their leader.?
The sinking of the Lusitania is what enforced the negative opinions.
10. Why was there an nation-wide increase of anger towards Germany on March 1st?
The American people were angry because Germany proposed a deal with Mexico that said if they helped Germany, when they win they would give back Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
15. When it was originally created, who did the selective service act target to draft?
Men from ages 21 to 30.
20. Where was the attack that arguably ended the war?
American soldiers stopped the last German advance and successfully clapped back at Belleau Wood.
25. In the post-war period why where there so many riots and protests?
The main reason for the riots and protests were the lack of jobs and money, after the war ended, they were being payed less, and some lost their jobs entirely.