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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 22 “A Global Power: 1914–1919”
COMMON THREADS
 As a progressive, Wilson was committed to order, efficiency, and gradual
reform. How did his policies toward Mexico and Europe reflect this
commitment?
 Both the Philippine-American War of 1899 and US involvement in World
War I in 1917 provoked dissent at home.
 Why did the government tolerate opposition in the first case but suppress
it in the second?
 How did the repression of the war years set the stage for the Red Scare?
OUTLINE
The Challenge of Revolution
The Mexican Revolution
Bringing Order to the Caribbean
A One-Sided Neutrality
The Lusitania’s Last Voyage
The Drift to War
The Election of 1916
American Landscape: Plattsburg Training Camp
The Last Attempts at Peace
War Aims
The Fight in Congress
Mobilizing the Nation and the Economy
Enforcing Patriotism
Regimenting the Economy
The Great Migration
Reforms Become “War Measures”
Over There
Citizens into Soldiers
The Fourteen Points
The Final Offensive
Revolutionary Anxieties
Wilson in Paris
The Senate Rejects the League
America and the World: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Red ScareConclusion
WHO?
Bernard Baruch
Carrie Chapman Catt
George Creel
Porfirio Díaz
Langston Hughes
John J. Pershing
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Wilson encouraged Americans to fight a war for democracy, but what
other goals did US intervention serve?
2. How did mobilization for war advance the progressive agenda? In what
ways did it set progressives back?
3. Where were the main battles in which US troops fought?
4. Allied commanders wanted to use American troops as a reserve, but
Pershing wanted his soldiers to enter the battle as an army. Why was
that so important to him?
5. Why did Senate Republicans reject the League of Nations? Did they
want the United States to withdraw from the world, or did they want to
deal with the world in a different way?
6. Managing the pace of change posed a tricky problem for leaders in the
early twentieth century. How did Wilson try to control the dynamic of
social and political change? What methods of change were he unwilling
to accept?
7. Why were American leaders so much more concerned about sedition
and dissent during World War I than they were during the Civil War or
World War II?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS
WHAT?
Cost-plus contract
Neutrality
Propaganda
Red Scare
Suffrage
NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 22 “A Global Power: 1914–1919”