CHAPTER 27-28-29: READING GUIDE-EMPIRE AND EXPANSION
TR: Brandisher of the Big Stick
Define:
Big Stick, Bully Pulpit
1.
Give evidence to show that Teddy Roosevelt was an unconventional president?
Building the Panama Canal
Define: Hay-Paunceforte Treaty, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, George Washington Goethals, William C. Gorgas
2.
Why was the Panama route chosen for the canal?
TR's Perversion of Monroe's Doctrine
Define:
Roosevelt Corollary, Dominican Republic, Bad Neighbor
3.
Explain the similarities and differences between the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary?
Roosevelt on the World Stage
Define:
Russo-Japanese War, Portsmouth
4.
How did Teddy Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Japanese Laborers in California
Define:
Gentlemen’s Agreement, Great White Fleet
5.
How did a school board in California act in a way that first hurt and then helped American-Japanese
relations?
Taft: The Dollar Goes Abroad
Define/Explain: Dollar Diplomacy
6.
What was dollar diplomacy and how was it practiced?
Wilson: New Directions in Foreign Policy
Define/Explain: Haiti
7.
Contrast Wilson's ideas of foreign policy with those of Roosevelt and Taft.
Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico
Define/Explain: Victoriano Huerta, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco ("Pancho") Villa, ABC Powers, John J. ("Black
Jack") Pershing
8.
Why did Mexico give such trouble to the Wilson administration? Explain.
Thunder Across the Sea
Define:
Central Powers, Allied Powers
9.
What caused Europe to plunge into WWI in 1914?
A Precarious Neutrality
Define:
Kaiser Wilhelm II
10.
What caused an officially neutral America to turn against the Central Powers?
America Earns Blood Money
Define:
Submarine, Lusitania, Arabic, Sussex
11.
How did Germany's use of submarines lead to tense relations with the U.S.?
Wilson Wins Reelection in 1916
Define:
Charles Evans Hughes, "He Kept Us Out of War"
12.
What were the keys to Wilson's electoral victory in 1916?
CHAPTER 30: READING GUIDE-THE WAR TO END WAR
War by Act of Germany
Define: "Peace without Victory," Unlimited Submarine Warfare, Arthur Zimmermann
13.
What events led Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war?
Wilsonian Idealism Enthroned
Define:
Jeannette Rankin
14.
Name Wilson’s twin war aims. How did these set America apart from the other combatants?
Wilson’s Fourteen Potent Points
Define:
Fourteen Points
15.
Summarize Wilson’s Fourteen Points peace plan.
Creel Manipulates Minds
Define:
Committee on Public Information, George Creel, Four-minute Men, The Hun, "Over There"
16.
How were Americans motivated to help in the war effort?
Enforcing Loyalty and Stifling Dissent
Define:
Liberty Cabbage, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Eugene V. Debs, William D. Haywood
17.
How was loyalty forced during WWI?
The Nation’s Factories Go to War
Define:
Bernard Baruch, War Industries Board
18.
Why was it difficult to mobilize industry for the war effort?
Workers in Wartime
Define: "Work or Fight," National War Labor Board, Wobblies
19.
How did the war affect the labor movement?
Suffering Until Suffrage
Define:
NAWSA, 19th Amendment, Women’s Bureau
20.
How did the war affect women?
Forging a War Economy
Define:
Food Administration, Herbert Hoover, Meatless Tuesdays, Eighteenth Amendment, Heatless
Mondays, Liberty Bonds
21.
Did government become too intrusive in people’s lives during the war? Give examples to support your
answer.
Making Plowboys into Doughboys
22.
Was the government’s effort to raise an army fair and effective?
Fighting in France--Belatedly
23.
How were American troops used in Russia?
America Helps Hammer the Hun
Define:
Marshal Foch, John J. Pershing, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Alvin York
24.
Describe the effect of the American troops on the fighting.
The Fourteen Points Disarm Germany
Define:
Armistice
25.
What role did America play in bringing Germany to surrender?
Wilson Steps Down from Olympus
Define:
Henry Cabot Lodge
26.
What political mistakes hurt Wilson in the months following the armistice?
The Idealist Battles the Imperialists in Paris
Define:
Vittorio Orlando, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, League of Nations
27.
How did Wilson’s desire for the League of Nations affect his bargaining at the peace conference?
Hammering Out the Treaty
Define:
William Borah, Hiram Johnson, "Irreconcilables"
28.
What compromises did Wilson make at the peace conference?
The Peace Treaty That Bred a New War
Define:
Treaty of Versailles
29.
For what reasons did Wilson compromise his Fourteen Points?
The Domestic Parade of Prejudice
30.
Why was the treaty criticized back in America?
Wilson’s Tour and Collapse (1919)
31.
What was the purpose and result of Wilson’s trip around the country when he returned to America?
Defeat Through Deadlock
32.
Why was the Treaty of Versailles finally rejected?
The "Solemn Referendum" of 1920
Define:
Warren Harding, James M. Cox, "Normalcy"
33..
What did the results of the 1920 election indicate?
The Betrayal of Great Expectations
34..
How much should the U.S. be blamed for the failure of the Treaty of Versailles?
Varying Viewpoints: Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?
Define:
Realism, Idealism, Wilsonianism
35.
To what extent was Wilson realistic when he called for a world of cooperation, equality and justice among
nations?