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•Answer the Multiple Choice Question and explain
why the wrong answer choices are wrong.
•Use specific details to support your answer
The Fourteen Points and the Atlantic Charter were both:
a.statements of post-war goals for establishing world
peace.
b.plans of victorious nations to divide conquered
territories.
c.military strategies for defeating enemy nations.
d.agreements between nations to eliminate further
development of weapons.
U.S. History
Top 100
What every student should know
to pass the U.S. History EOC
Goal 8
Goal 8: The Great War and Its
Aftermath (1914-1930)
• The learner will analyze
United States
involvement in World
War I and the war’s
influence on
international affairs
during the 1920s.
U.S. - Neutrality to Involvement
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May 1915 – U-boats sink the Lusitania
Sept. 1915 – Germany promises not to sink unarmed ships
March 1916 – Germany sinks the Sussex
May 1916 – Germany promises not to sink unarmed ships
Jan. 1917 – Zimmerman note is intercepted
Feb. 1917 – Germany resumes unrestricted submarine
warfare
• April 1917 – U.S. declares war on Germany
Russian Revolution, 1917
• Instituted a Communist
government lead by the
Bolshevik party under
Lenin. Lenin pulled
Russia out of WWI.
Fourteen Points, 1918
• Wilson's idea that he wanted included in
the WWI peace treaty, including freedom
of the seas and the League of Nations.
League of Nations, 1919
• Devised by President Wilson, it comprised
of delegates from many countries, the U.S.
did not join. It was designed to be run by a
council of the five largest countries. It also
included a provision for a world court.
Eugene V. Debs
• Debs repeatedly ran for president as a
socialist, he was imprisoned after he gave a
speech protesting WWI in violation of the
Sedition Act.
Schenck v. U.S., 1919
• United States Supreme Court
decision concerning the
question of whether the
defendant possessed a First
Amendment right to free
speech against the draft during
World War I. During wartime,
utterances tolerable in
peacetime can be punished.
Sacco and Vanzetti
• Sacco and Vanzetti were
Italian immigrants charged
with murdering a guard and
robbing a shoe factory.
• Convicted on circumstantial
evidence, many believed
they had been framed for
the crime because of their
anarchist and pro-union
activities.
Bluff
• What was the immediate cause of World War I?
• Explain how each of the following led to America’s entry into
World War I.
– Unrestricted Submarine Warfare:
– Sinking of the Lusitania:
– Sussex Pledge:
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British propaganda:
Bluff
• Explain how each of the following led to America’s entry into
World War I.
– Zimmerman Telegram (Note):
– Russia’s withdrawal from the conflict:
• What was President Wilson’s campaign slogan in the presidential
election of 1916?
• What was America’s foreign policy concerning international conflicts
prior to World War I?
• What did President Wilson finally tell the public was the reason for
our entry into World War I?
Bluff
• What caused the Russians to pull out of the fighting partway through
World War I?
• Describe trench warfare.
• What was the purpose of the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
• What court case tested the Espionage and Sedition Acts and found
that the government could legally withhold liberties if there is a “clear
and present danger”?
• What was the purpose of reparations?
• What was the only point from the Fourteen Points that was kept in
the Treaty of Versailles?
Bluff
• Which Senator blocked U.S. ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
and U.S. membership in the League of Nations?
• Define Red Scare.
• During the Red Scare, what did Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer
do that violated citizens’ civil rights, all in the name of patriotism?
• Identify Sacco and Vanzetti.
• What policy tried to outlaw international war?
• What was the purpose of the Washington Naval Conference?
• What was America’s official immigration policy following World War
I?