Study Guide for US History Final Exam
For each term below, write one to two sentences containing significant facts and information from class
or from our readings on the topic and explain its historical significance.
Woodrow Wilson
Isolationism
US interventions in Mexico, 1914, 1916:
dollar diplomacy
Causes of War in Europe:
WWI effect on US economy:
German submarine policy:
Lusitania
Preparedness
National Defense Act of 1916:
Conscription:
US policy of Neutrality:
Demographics:
Taxes during WWI:
War bonds/Liberty bonds:
War Industries Board (WIB)
Election of 1916:
Zimmerman Telegram:
US military contribution to WWI:
Herbert Hoover (in WWI):
Great Migration (how did it relate to WWI?)
Women and WWI:
African Americans in WWI:
IWW
War Propaganda
Free Speech and WWI:
Eugene Debs:
Emma Goldman
John Reed:
Russian Revolution:
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Reparations:
Henry Cabot Lodge
Why did the Senate oppose joining the League of Nations?
Spanish Flu:
Economic transition after war:
Race riots 1919:
Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer
WWI and Capitalism
WWI and Imperialism
WWI and Socialism
Sacco and Vanzetti
Why did WWI end the Progressive Movement?
What made WWI unlike previous wars?
Explain US interests in joining the war in Europe.
What were Wilson's goals at the Paris Peace Conference (Treaty of Versailles)?
Why did Wilson say women's suffrage was vital to ending the war?
Describe some of the arguments of people who opposed the war.
How did the war inspire and affect the socialist movement?