America's embrace of a much more assertive and interventionist foreign policy, especially in the Caribbean and Latin America
The gradual involvement of the United States in WWI, from leaning toward the Allies since the outbreak of hostilities to eventually being drawn into full participation in the war
The decisive impact of American intervention on land and sea in tipping the balance of victory for the beleaguered Allied forces
The war mobilization of the Wilson administration - how they financed the war, managed the economy, and encouraged public support of the war effort
The idealistic aims and bitter defeats suffered by Woodrow Wilson internationalist foreign policy after World War I
The profound economic, social, and racial significance of America's involvement in the Great War
A thorough study of Chapter Twenty-one should enable the student to understand the following:
The new direction of American foreign policy introduced by Roosevelt, especially in Asia and the Caribbean
The similarities and differences between Taft's and Roosevelt's approaches to foreign policy
The reasons for the continuation of American interventionism in Latin America under Wilson
The unfolding of the diplomatic crisis between Mexico and the United States in the years before American entry into WWI
The background factors and the immediate sequence of events that caused the United States to declare war on Germany in 1917
The contributions of the American military to Allied victory in World War I
The extent of government control of the economy during World War I and the results of that control
The use of propaganda under George Creel and the CPI to further the WWI effort
The announced American objectives in fighting the war, Wilson's Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's motives, successes, and failures at the Paris Peace Conference
The circumstances that led the United States to reject the Treaty of Versailles
The economic problems the United States faced immediately after the war
The reasons for the Red Scare and the upsurge of racial unrest that afflicted postwar America in 1919
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