Chapter 22: America and the Great War (key people)

key people only

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president, election of 1900 and 1904

Big Stick Diplomacy

Panama Canal

progressive reformer

William Taft

27th president, election of 1908

Dollar Diplomacy

later chief justice

Woodrow Wilson

28th president, election of 1912

led US in ww1

• started off neutral but then wanted war

• 14 points

moral diplomacy

• mexico revolution conflict

• latin america

Carranza

Mexican leader during mexican revolution

• recognized by wilson

• overthrew Huerta

strained US - Mexico relations

• didn’t cooperate w wilson in creation of new gov

• Wilson wanted Pancho Villa to overthrow him

he was the leader of mexico when wilson decided to give up

Huerta

Mexican military dictator

overthrew Madero & supported by Taft

not recognized by Wilson though

• overthrown by Carranza through Wilson’s urging

Pancho Villa

Figure during Mexican revolution

• supported by Wilson to overthrow Carranza

• abandoned by Wilson and he got mad at US

raided New Mexico

• wilson pursued him (led by pershing)

• unsuccessful and dispute

Eugene V. Debs

socialist leader arrested under Espionage Act

• anti war speech

• ran for president from prison

Herbert Hoover

Head of the food administration during ww1

• organized food conservation campaigns effectively

Doughboys

nickname for American soldiers in ww1

• help with morality and turn the tide

Henry Cabot Lodge

Senator who opposed Wilson and the League of Nation

• “irreconcilable”

A. Mitchell Palmer

Attorney general

Key figure of Red Scare

• led anti radical Palmer Raids

General John Pershing

Commander of American Expeditionary Force, ww1

• led meuse argonne offensive

previously pursued Villa