3908578491 | "peace without victory" | Wilson's appeal to all the belligerents in January 1917, just before the Germans resumed submarine warfare. | 0 | |
3908585471 | Zimmerman vote | Message that contained a German proposal to Mexico for an anti-American alliance. | 1 | |
3908592483 | Fourteen Points | Wilson's idealistic statement of America war aims in January 1918 that inspired the Allies and demoralized their enemies. | 2 | |
3908607083 | Committee of Public Information (CPI) | American government propaganda agency that aroused zeal for Wilson's ideals and whipped up hatred for the kaiser. | 3 | |
3908617062 | Industrial Workers of the World (IWWs) | Radical antiwar labor union whose members were prosecuted under the Espionage and Sedition Act. | 4 | |
3908625633 | War Industries Board | Weak federal agency designed to organize and coordinate U.S. industrial production for the war effort. | 5 | |
3908638442 | Nineteenth Amendment | Constitutional provision endorsed by Wilson as a war measure whose ratification achieved a long-sought goal for American women. | 6 | |
3908651025 | Liberty Loans | Treasury Department bond-selling drives that raised about $21 billion to finance the American war effort. | 7 | |
3908658610 | Big Four | The nations that dominated the Paris Peace Conference--namely, Britain, France, Italy, and the United States. | 8 | |
3908665134 | League of Nations | Wilson's proposed international body that constituted the key provision of the Versailles treaty. | 9 | |
3908674445 | Treaty of Versailles | Controversial peace agreement that compromised many of Wilson's Fourteen Points but retained his League. | 10 | |
3908693166 | Foreign Relations Committee | Senatorial committee whose chairman used delaying tactics and hostile testimony to develop opposition to Wilson's treaty and League of Nations | 11 | |
3908709002 | Irreconciables | A hard core of isolationist senators who bitterly opposed any sort of league; also called the "Battalion of Death". | 12 | |
3908719753 | Lodge reservations | Amendments to the proposed Treaty of Versailles, sponsored by Wilson's hated senatorial opponent, that attempted to guarantee America's sovereign rights in relation to the League of Nations. | 13 | |
3908742322 | "Solemn Referendum" | Wilson's belief that the presidential election of 1920 should constitute a direct popular vote on the League of Nations | 14 | |
3908748546 | George Creel | Head of the American propaganda agency that mobilized public opinion for World War I. | 15 | |
3908755225 | Eugene V. Debs | Socialist leader who won nearly a million votes as a presidential candidate while in federal prison for antiwar activities. | 16 | |
3908763357 | Bernard Baruch | Head of the War Industrial Board, which attempted to impose some order on U.S. war production. | 17 | |
3908771545 | Herbert Hoover | Head of the Food Administration who pioneered successful voluntary mobilization methods. | 18 | |
3908779406 | John J. Pershing | Commander of the overseas American Expeditionary Force in World War I. | 19 | |
3908785535 | Alice Paul | Leader of the pacifist National Women's Party who opposed U.S. involvement in World War I. | 20 | |
3908792084 | Meuse-Argonne | Climactic final battle of World War I. | 21 | |
3908797281 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | Hated leader of America's enemy in World War I. | 22 | |
3908801985 | Woodrow Wilson | Inspirational leader of the Western world in wartime who later stumbled as a peacemaker. | 23 | |
3908806961 | Henry Cabot Lodge | Wilson's great senatorial antagonist who fought to keep America out of the League of Nations. | 24 | |
3908816203 | Georges Clemenceau | The "tiger" of France, whose drive for security forced Wilson to compromise at Versailles. | 25 | |
3908860720 | William Borah | Senatorial leader of the isolationist "irreconcilables" who absolutely opposed all American involvement in Europe. | 26 | |
3908869334 | James Cox | Defeated Democratic presidential candidate in the election of 1920. | 27 | |
3908880441 | Calvin Coolidge | Massachusetts governor and Warren G. Harding's vice presidential running mate in the election of 1920. | 28 | |
3908890916 | Warren G. Harding | Folksy OHIO senator whose 1920 presidential victory ended the last hopes for the U.S. participation in the League of Nations. | 29 |
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