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| CHAPTER 25 | AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| February 1913 |
Huerta in power in Mexico |
| April 1914 |
Invasion of Veracruz |
| August 1914 |
Outbreak of World War I |
| May 1915 |
Lusitania sunk |
| September 1915 |
Arabic pledge from Germany |
| February 1917 |
Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare |
| February 1917 |
Zimmerman telegram |
| April 1917 |
United States declared war |
| July 1917 |
Creation of War Industries Board |
| 1917 |
Espionage Act |
| January 1918 |
Wilson presented the Fourteen Points |
| November 1918 |
Armistice |
| 1918 |
Sedition Act |
| 1918–1919 |
Spanish flu epidemic |
| January–May 1919 |
Paris Peace Conference |
| November 1919 and March 1920 |
Senate votes on treaty |
| 1919–1920 |
Red Scare |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe Wilson’s idealistic diplomacy and show the clash of ideals and
reality in Mexico.
- Discuss early United States reaction to the World War.
- Trace the entry of the United States into World War I.
- Evaluate the status of civil liberties during World War I and the postwar Red
Scare.
- Explain the process and product of peacemaking after World War I.
- Account for the failure of the United States to ratify the peace treaty after
World War I.
- Understand the problems of reconversion from World War I to civilian life.
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