The United States' Declaration of Neutrality

The United States' Declaration of Neutrality

A pivotal decision during the early years of the United States, the Declaration of Neutrality outlined the nation's commitment to staying out of foreign conflicts. This policy helped shape America's approach to international relations and set a precedent for future neutrality declarations.

The Impact of WWI

• The United States' Declaration of Neutrality during World War I had significant consequences.
• It allowed the US to remain out of the conflict and focus on domestic affairs.
• However, it also led to tensions with both the Allies and the Central Powers.
• The declaration was eventually abandoned when the US entered the war in 1917.

US Declaration of Neutrality

Trivia: The consequences of the United States' Declaration of Neutrality during World War I resulted in the US entering the war in 1917. This decision was influenced by factors such as German submarine attacks on American ships and the Zimmerman Telegram, which proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. The US joined the Allies and played a crucial role in the eventual victory.

Multiple Choice

By early 1915, Germany decided to expand submarine attacks from strictly Allied warships to also include any commercial ships belonging to both belligerent and neutral nations

• over the horizon navy

• nuclear deterence

• unrestricted ground warfare

• unrestricted submarine warfare

Multiple Choice

Zimmerman Telegram

• Confidential military message
• Covert political correspondence
• Hidden government memo
• German government instructed its ambassador to the United States to approach the Mexican government and ask them to join Germany in a war against the United States

Multiple Choice

e. Attacks on ships carrying Americans increased until May 1915, when the British liner _______ was sunk off the Irish coast. There were 128 Americans on board the ______ and all were killed. President Wilson reacted by issuing a series of notes to Germany warning against further attacks on American shipping

• Lusitania /Lusitania

• Titanic/Titanic

• Enola Gray/Enola Gray

• USS Hoover/USS Hoover

Multiple Choice

Ths law provided penalties for spying, sabotage, and obstructing the war effort. The law also banned the use of the United States Mail to send anti-war materials

• Patriot Act
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Espionage Act of 1917
• Homeland Security Act

Multiple Choice

He was arrested after making a series of speeches against the war urging American men not to fight. He was a prominent Socialist, four-time candidate for the presidency, and union leader

• Eugene V. Debs
• Ronald Reagan
• John F. Kennedy
• Karl Marx

Multiple Choice

Another impact World War I had on the United States was the shift in population demographics. The migration of Blacks from the South to the North actually began before World War I, as families sought to escape sharecropping and Jim Crow violence

• migration of Whites from the North to the South
• migration of Asians from the West to the East
• migration of Hispanics from the East to the West
• The Great Migration

Multiple Choice

In January 1918, President Wilson spoke to Congress about the war aims of the nation. His plan ultimately became known as the_________and was designed to create a lasting peace in the world

• Fourteen Points
• Five Points
• Ten Points
• Twenty Points

Multiple Choice

Wilson’s Fourteen Points became a guide for the negotiations at Versailles to secure peace after World War I. Some of Wilson's suggestions were accepted, some modified, and some rejected by the countries represented at the peace conference. The Points included the following BUT:

• Open diplomacy (no more secret treaties)

• Freedom of the seas

• End international trade barriers

• Reduce armaments

• conquer new territories for economic purposes.

Multiple Choice

During the postwar treaty negotiations, Wilson worked hard to get as many of his Fourteen Points as possible included in the treaty. The Fourteenth Point, which proposed__________

• League of Europe

• League of Deterrent

• League of Allies

• League of Nations

Multiple Choice

Public opposition to the League of Nations ultimately led the Senate to vote against ratification of the treaty. Isolationists in the Senate believed that by joining the League of Nations, the United States would be obligated to get involved in future _______conflicts

• South American

• Australian

• European

• Asian