Question 1

Assess America's contribution to the Allied victory in World War I.Do you think that the United States' involvement was crucial to victory? Why or why not?

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Question 2

How do you view the quarrel between Henry Cabot Lodge and Woodrow Wilson? Do you think that it was the deciding factor in the outcome of the Senate's vote on American participation in the League of Nations,or were other,less personal,forces responsible for the League's defeat? What were some of these other forces?

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Question 3

Why did President Wilson finally decide that the United States needed to enter World War I? What were the essential principles underlying Wilson's idealistic appeal for a "war to make the world safe for democracy"? Why does the text call those principles "prophetic"?

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Question 4

Why were there such substantial violations of civil liberties during World War I? Why were German Americans,radical labor unions,and war opponents especially suppressed?

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Question 5

Which of the three essential components of Wilsonianism

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Question 6

Why did President Wilson have such difficulty getting his own allies at the Paris Peace Conference to accept the principles of the Fourteen Points? To what extent did the Treaty of Versailles embody the principles of the Fourteen Points?

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Question 7

Based on the chapter and "Varying Viewpoints," why is it fair to say that the issue of Wilsonianism has dominated discussions of American foreign policy from that time to the present?

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Question 8

Do you agree with the text authors that Wilson's high-minded appeal to turn World War I into a "crusade" for democracy and peace "worked─perhaps too well"? Why or why not?

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Question 9

Assess the significance of Wilson's moralistic idealism on his call for America's entry into World War I in 1917,the Fourteen Points,and the campaign for American participation in the League of Nations.

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Question 10

Do you think that the United States was better off for having participated in World War I? If so,in what ways? If not,why? Create a scenario envisaging the outcome of World War I,had the United States not joined the Allies.

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Question 11

How did the U.S.war effort during World War I reflect the strong American preference for voluntary rather than forced support for the war? Which policies became exceptions to that rule,and why?

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Question 12

Summarize President Wilson's Fourteen Points.Which were substantially attained as a result of American participation in World War I? Which were not? Why?

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Question 13

Is it more accurate to call Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy "idealistic" or "a higher realism"?

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Question 14

Summarize the impact of American participation in World War I on the national economy,civil liberties,and public attitudes.

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Question 15

Why did the United States fail to join the League of Nations? Consider the role of Wilson himself,Henry Cabot Lodge,the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles,and American political traditions.

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Quiz 30: The War to End War,1917-1918