AP U.S. History
Chapter 24 Reading Guide: The Great War
1.
What was the meaning of Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy?” How did it differ in practice from
the foreign policy of his predecessors?
“Grape juice diplomacy”
“Dollar diplomacy”
“cooling off “treaties
2.
Why did the U.S. become involved in Latin American countries’ internal affairs? How did
this intervention test Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy?”
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco I. Madero
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
ABC Powers
Tampico Incident
Pancho Villa
Columbus, NM
John J. Pershing
Nicaragua
Haiti
Dominican Republic
3.
Prioritize the factors which led the U.S. to stray from our official policy of neutrality.
freedom of seas
Orders in Council
Declaration of London
U-boat
Lusitania (May 1915)
Robert Lansing
Edward M. House
Sussex
National Defense Act
Naval Construction Act
Claude Kitchen
George Norris
“he kept us out of war”
“peace without victory”
unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
4.
Why did the U.S. move so rapidly from “he kept us out of war.” To a declaration of war?
5.
What impact did the U.S entry initially have on the war? What effect did the war have on
the domestic situation in the U.S.?
convoy system
Liberty Bonds
Selective Service Act
Army Appropriation Act
Council of National Defense
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
Herbert Hoover
Harry A. Garfield
War Industries Board
National War Labor Board
U.S. Employment Service
George Creel
Americanism
Espionage & Sedition Acts
Eugene V. Debs
Schenck v. U.S.
Abrams v. U.S.
6. What factors necessitated rapid deployment of U.S. forces on the battle lines in
the spring of 1918? With what results?
Bolshevik Revolution
Georges Clemenceau
Ferdinand Foch
Cantigny
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
2nd Battle of Marne
Erich Ludendorff
7. What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points? Why were they significant in the outcome of the
war? How did this significance differ from Wilson’s original intent?
“The Inquiry”
Point 14
8.
Why did the U.S. send troops to Russia in Aug. 1918? What was the result of this
“intervention?”
Vladimir Lenin
Bolsheviks
“Peace, Land, and Bread”
White Russians
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
9.
Contrast Wilson’s approach to peacemaking with those of the other members of the
“Big Four.” How consonant was the peace with the Fourteen Points?
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Vittorio Orlando
Treaty of London
League of Nations
Article X
reparations
Rhineland
Polish Corridor
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
10.
How did Wilson commit the “supreme infanticide?” What factors led to this failure of
judgment?
Henry Cabot Lodge
“irreconcilables”
“reservationists”
“solemn referendum”
11.
Why was the period of demobilization and return to peace a violent and deadly one
for the U.S.?
spanish flu
pandemic
influenza
War Socialism
AFL
William Foster
Boston Police Strike
Calvin Coolidge
“Red Summer”
Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer
J. Edgar Hoover
General Intelligence Division
Palmer Raids
“100 Percent Americanism”
“American Plan”
12. In what way(s) does Wilson’s foreign policy toward Mexico mirror his policy toward
Germany from 1914 to 1917? Was the United States truly “neutral” 1914-1917?
William Jennings Bryan
“grape juice diplomacy”
“dollar diplomacy”
Profirio Diaz
Francisco I. Madero
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Tampico incident
Pancho Villa
Gen. John J. Pershing
“hyphenated Americans”
Robert Lansing
Declaration of London
Unterseeboot
Lusitania
Arabic Pledge
Edward M. House
Sussex
13. Respond to the assertion, “American preparedness for total war clearly reflected our belief in
the ideals of Progressivism.”
National Security League
League to Limit Armaments
National Defense Act
Naval Construction Act (1916)
Revenue Act of 1916
“He kept us out of war”
“peace without victory”
Zimmerman Telegram
“The world must be made
safe for democracy.”
Council of Ntional Defense
War Industries Board
14.
Analyze the lasting domestic influence of the Great War on the United States.
George Creel
Committee on Public
Information
“liberty cabbage”
Espionage and Sedition Acts
IWW
Eugene V. Debs
Schenck v. United States
Red Scare
15. Why was Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” so crucial in ending the war yet so irrelevant to the
peace?
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Vittorio Orlando
Article X
Henry Cabot Lodge
irreconcilables
reservationists