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APUSH CHAPTER 31 STUDY GUIDE
Key Terms:
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Zimmerman Note
Fourteen Points
Espionage Act
Self-Determination
Herbert Hoover/Food Administration
Liberty Bonds
Henry Cabot Lodge
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Isolationism
Analysis Questions:
What events led Wilson to ask Congress to declare war?
What were some of the important goals of Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” and why were they so
controversial?
What steps did the government take to get the United States behind the war effort? How did the United
States change as war efforts were ramped up?
How did the onset of World War I affect the American labor movement?
What were some of the new tactics adopted by the suffragettes in order to help them gain the right to
vote? Why did more women now believe they had a right to vote in the wake of World War I?
Why was there so much opposition to a draft in the United States at this time? How did the draft
remake the American armed forces?
What did the American “doughboys” do in France? How did they turn the tide of the war?
What happened at the Paris Peace Conference? What did each nation want? What was the outcome?
Why is Woodrow Wilson sometimes cast as the tragic hero of Versailles?
What happened when Wilson returned to America with the Treaty of Versailles? How did the Election of
1920 demonstrate American sentiment about the Treaty?
Read the section on pages 726-727. Should Wilson be considered a realist or an idealist? Why?
Assess the accuracy of this statement: “The Allies won the war, but they lost the peace.”