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| CHAPTER 25 | AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| April 1914 |
Marines land at Vera Cruz |
| August 1914 |
World War I began in Europe |
| May 7, 1915 |
Lusitania sunk |
| September 1915 |
Arabic pledge by Germany |
| April 1916 |
Sussex pledge |
| 1916 |
National Defense Act |
| 1916 |
Naval Construction Act |
| 1916 |
Revenue Act |
| 1916 |
Woodrow Wilson reelected |
| Feburary 1917 |
Zimmerman telegram |
| February 1917 |
Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare |
| April 6, 1917 |
United States declared war |
| July 1917 |
War Industries Board created |
| 1917 |
Espionage Act |
| January 1918 |
Wilson presented the Fourteen Points |
| March 1918 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| 1918 |
Sedition Act |
| November 1918 |
Armistice signed |
| 1918–1919 |
Spanish flu epidemic |
| January–May 1919 |
Paris Peace Conference |
| 1919–1920 |
Red Scare |
| 1919 |
Schenk v. United States |
| June 1919 |
Peace Treaty signed |
| September 1919 |
Boston police strike |
| October 1919 |
Wilson suffered stroke |
| July 1921 |
United States ended World War I |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe Wilson’s idealistic diplomacy and show the clash of ideals and reality
in Mexico.
- Explain early U.S. reaction to World War I.
- Account for the entry of the United States into World War I.
- Explain the status of civil liberties during World War I and during the Red
Scare afterward.
- Explain the process and product of peacemaking after World War I.
- Account for the failure of the United States to ratify the peace treaty after
World War I.
- Describe the problems of reconversion from World War I to civilian life.
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