Exam 3: 1917-1920: The Failure of World War I

U.S. military forces entered the field how many months prior to the war's conclusion?

Talk About: -Industrial Workers of the World

Talk About: -Alice Paul

Which of the following was depicted in the film The Spirit of '76?

Talk About: -Schenck v. United States

Talk About: -war reparations

Fewer than a thousand people were convicted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

Talk About: -Paris Peace Conference

Approximately how many U.S. soldiers died in World War I?

Talk About: -Nineteenth Amendment

Talk About: -Progressivism

Discuss the Wilsonian ideals as expressed in the Fourteen Points. Were they consistently applied? Were they earnestly and genuinely put forward? Or were they, as a British delegate to the Paris peace talks claimed, merely "vague idealism" advocating "a system which America might refuse to apply even to her own continent"? Were they merely "principles... designed to protect American interests"?

The Russians made peace with the Germans in 1918.

Talk About: -Bolsheviks

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech met with widespread approval.

Talk About: -Espionage Act

The Sedition Act made it illegal to defame which of the following?

In what year did the First World War end?

Following the First World War, America experienced a "Red Scare," that is, a fear of communist infiltration. Were reactions to the scare, both those of the U.S. government and of the American people, in keeping with U.S. ideals of freedom and liberty? Why or why not?

The First World War precipitated what social reforms?