WWI Bellringer

Use the following quote to answer the question.

National I must remain, and in that way I, like all other Americans, can render the amplest service to the world. . . . The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come, as in the years that have gone.

—Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s Speech to the U.S. Senate, 1919

Senator Lodge made this speech to oppose which proposal?

• the establishment of secret treaties

• the allotment of economic aid to the Allies

• the increase of armaments by Allied nations

• the entry into an international organization

Use the list below to answer the question.

The Zimmerman Note • An attempt by German officials to keep the United States focused on other security issues• Mexico was offered an opportunity to regain lost territory

What was the U.S. response to this note?

• The support for isolationism began to decline.

• The number of American troops in the Philippines increased.

• The neutrality treaties with neighboring countries ended.

• The deployment of American troops to Cuba began.

Use the excerpt below to answer the question.

When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last I thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms. . . . But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable.—President Woodrow Wilson’s Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany, 1917

Why did the United States make this foreign policy change?

• Germany pledged to respect isolationist countries

• Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare.

• A U.S. naval base was attacked by an enemy nation.

• The United States refused to join an international peace organization.