Chapter 22 - America and the Great War (1914-1920)

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Nineteenth Amendment

The summer of 1919 also brought the ratification of the ________ (1919) to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

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Woodrow Wilson

________ insisted that the United States wanted a new, democratic Europe.

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Russia

Communists seized power in November 1917 in ________ and negotiated a separate peace treaty with Germany, thus freeing the Germans to focus on the Western Front.

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Wilson administration

The ________ declared the nation neutral but allowed businesses to extend loans to the warring nations, principally the Allies (Britain, France, and Russia), to purchase food and military supplies.

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Espionage and Sedition Acts

The federal government severely curtailed civil liberties, and the ________ of 1917 and 1918 criminalized virtually any public opposition to the war.

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Wilson administration

The ________ drafted young men into the army and created new agencies such as the War Industries Board and the Food Administration to coordinate industrial production and agricultural consumption.

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Espionage and Sedition Acts

The federal government severely curtailed civil liberties, and the ________ of 1917 and 1918 criminalized virtually any public opposition to the war.

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Communists

________ seized power in November 1917 in Russia and negotiated a separate peace treaty with Germany, thus freeing the Germans to focus on the Western Front.

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League of Nations

His Fourteen Points (1918) speech outlined his ideas for a ________ to promote peaceful resolutions to future conflicts.

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First Red Scare

Several incidents of domestic terrorism provoked what would be known as the ________ (1919–1920), during which the Justice Department illegally arrested and deported many suspected radicals, most of whom were immigrants.

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