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| Author of The Promise of American Life. His theories were preached by TR. |
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| Chair of the House committee. His findings were heeded by Democratic banking reformers, which traced the tentacles of the "money monster" into the hidden vaults of American banking. |
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| Wilson's confidant, progressive-minded Massachusetts attorney. Wrote Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It. |
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| General, an Indian, installed by a conscienceless clique who had murdered the popular new revolutionary president. |
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| One of Huerta's principal rivals to whom arms flowed to from the US. Succeeded Huerta. |
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| A combination of bandit and Robin hood, first Huerta's rival, then Carranza's. Killed numerous Americans trying to provoke a mexican-american war. |
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| "Black Jack." A grim-faced and ramrod-erect veteran of the Cuban and Philippine campaigns, ordered the break up of the bandit band. |
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| Had a villainous upturned mustache. Embodiment of arrogant autocracy. Ruled Germany during WWI. |
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| Supreme Court justice, a cold intellectual who had achieved a solid liberal record when he was gov of NY. Changed his views about Germany in different places- "Charles Evasive Hughes" |
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| was Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election. He made the case for what he called the New Nationalism in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, on August 31, 1910. The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare and property rights.[1] He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice. |
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| the campaign speeches and promises of Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential campaign. They called for less government but in practice as president he added new controls such as the Federal Reserve System and the Clayton Antitrust Act. More generally the "New Freedom" is associated with Wilson's first term as president |
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| Provided for a substantial reduction of rates, reduced import fees. |
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| allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. |
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| Most important piece of economic legislation btwn the Civil War and the New Deal. The Board oversaw a nationwide system of twelve regional reserve districts, each with its own central bank. |
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| Federal Trade Commission Act |
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| Empowered a presidentially appointed commission to turn a searchlight on industries engaged in interstate commerce, such as the meatpackers. |
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| Lengthened the shopworn Sherman's Act list of business practices that were deemed objectionable, including price discrimination and interlocking directorates. |
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| Made credit available to farmers at low rates of interest. |
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| required decent reatment and a living wage on american merchant ships. |
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| Workingmen's Compensation Act |
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| granted assistance to federal civil-service employees during periods of disability. |
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| Established an 8 hr work day for all employees on trains in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime. |
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| granted to the Philippines the boon of territorial status and promised independence as soon as a stable govt could be established. |
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| Germany, A-H, Turkey, Bulgaria. |
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| France, Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy. |
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| The British passenger liner torpedoed and sank off the coast of Ireland. 128 Americans died. Carried 4200 cases of small-arms ammunition. |
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| A british liner sunk in August 1915, with the loss of two American lives. Caused Berlin to agree not to sink unarmed and unresisting passenger ships without warning. |
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| French Passenger steamer, the torpedoing of it violated the Germans' pledge, infuriated Wilson. |
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| Head of the Committee on Public Information, journalist, though outspoken and tactless, was gifted with zeal and imagination. |
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| Socialist, convicted under the Espionage Act in 1918. Ran for president in 1920 from a federal penitentiary. |
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| Head of the War Industries Board. A lone eagle stock speculator. |
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| Head of the Food Administration. Quaker-humanitarian. |
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| Led the National Woman's party, quaker activist. |
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| New chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The logical choice for Wilson to bring to Paris to make peace. |
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| A genial senator of Ohio, ran as republican nominee in 1920, won by a landslide. |
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| The democratic nominee in 1920, strongly supported the League of Nations. His running mate was FDR. |
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| the principle in international law, that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference. |
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| a security arrangement, regional or global, in which each state in the system accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and agrees to join in a collective response to threats to, and breaches of, the peace. |
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| the compulsory enrollment of people to some sort of public service, most often military service. The draft. |
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| United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. |
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| a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was declined by Mexico, but angered Americans and led in part to a U.S. declaration of war in April. |
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| a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. People in Europe generally welcomed Wilson's intervention, but his Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism. |
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| an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference, and the precursor to the United Nations. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members. The League's primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing war through collective security, disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. |
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| an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I. Over just 28 months, from April 13, 1917, to August 21, 1919, it used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and enlist public support against foreign attempts to undercut America's war aims. |
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| Clamenceau, Lloyd George, Wilson, Orlando. |
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| Espionage and Sedition acts |
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| It prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support America's enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment. forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces |
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| a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 and concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech against the draft during World War I. |
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| Industrial Workers of the World |
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| an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union. Wobblies. |
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| a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products. |
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| They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[4] The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union. |
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| an informal term for an American soldier, especially members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I. |
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| bitter opponents of the Treaty of Versailles in the United States in 1919. |
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| one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
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