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| Elected in 1912. continued the foreign policy practices of his predecessors, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Both former presidents had taken an active role in protecting America's spheres of influences. Sometimes they used money and other times they used the military to ensure that American industry was protected specifically in Latin American countries |
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| U-Boats). The concept of submarines in warfare was not a new one. |
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| British passenger liner was sunk by a German U-Boat. It killed 1,198 passengers including 128 Americans. |
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| the types of ships they would attack and that passenger ships were off limits. |
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| newspaper intercepted a this from the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman to the German minister in Mexico. He encouraged Mexico to join the war effort, invade the U.S. and in return the Germans would assist Mexico in regaining lost territory including Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. This was actually intercepted by the British and they decoded it. |
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| War Revenue Bills of 1917 and 1918 |
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| ensured that taxes were the way to raise revenue in times of need |
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| encouraged farmers to produce more crops (Wheat will win the War) and consumers to stop consuming these items. They encouraged average Americans to have meatless days and to grow vegetable gardens and can foods to provide for their families. |
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| regulate prices, regulate production, and raw materials. |
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| ensure a reliable workforce, the government created a board to regulate the relationship between business and labor. |
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| Industrial Workers of the World |
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| or Wobblies believed the war was an opportunity for the rich to become richer and the poor to become poorer. |
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| over 500,000 African Americans moved North to find work in the steel mills, railway yards or any factory work as it paid much more than they could find in the farming industries of the South. |
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| where women will be involved in heavy industry production. these included telephone operators, cab drivers, sales clerks, officer personnel. |
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| leader of the National American Women Suffrage Association |
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| leader of the National Women's Party(NWP) were prominent suffragists during the War. |
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| giving women the right to vote. |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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| sell the war. They disseminated war news and prowar materials. They distributed 75 million pamphlets written in many different languages; developed magazine ads, pro-war films and held patriotic rallies. |
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| Volstead Act - 18th Amendment |
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| ended the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the U.S. It will soon become the 18th amendment that began the prohibition era in U.S. History |
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| encouraged people to think of themselves as Americans and no longer identify by their country of origin or their ethnic group. |
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| eight of the points focused on creating new nations and shifting the balance of power in Europe, five the points called for international trade, reduction of arms,and freedom of the seas to ensure democracy in Europe. |
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| Versailles signed in 1919 ended the war, but as many historians pointed out it really set the stage for World War II. The treaty included many of the points that Wilson wanted - recrafting of borders; the League of Nation, but it did include a series of harsh punishments aimed at the Germans that guaranteed the Germans would be angry. |
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