EOC Prep Standard 6

Henry Cabot Lodge & other senators opposed ratification of Treaty of Versailles (1919) bec?

• failed to punish Germany for involvement in WW1

• excluded reparations for European allies

• could draw US into future conflicts

• placed blame for WW1 on all warring countries

Primary reason African Americans migrated to the North both during and after WW1?

• more economic opportunities existed in the North

• few chances to gain political offices were in the South

• Racism & discrimination had been eliminated in the North

• Southern cities were overcrowded

Zimmerman telegram: was part of an effort to

• convince several western states to secede from the US

• bring Mexico into WW1 on the side of GB & France

• form an alliance btwn Germany and US

• enlist Mexican support for Germany if the US declared war

Publication of this telegram (zimmerman) to the US newspapers helped to..

• reelect Woodrow Wilson

• convince Americans to support entrance into WW1

• encourage congress to pass neutrality act

• grant statehood to Arizona and New Mexico

Vote by US Senate on Treaty of Versailles demonstrated

• unwillingness to join league of nations

• a commitment to collective security

• belief that nation required a stronger military

• rejection of colonialism

The US States tried to avoid involvement in WW1 by following a policy of

• neutrality

• collective security

• economic boycotts

• military preparedness

which event most influenced Pres Wilsons decision to enter WW1?

• defeat of Russia by Germany

• assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• raids by Mexico on southwestern US

• renewal of unrestricted warfare

A major reason the US entered WW1?

• maintain freedom of the seas

• stop impressments of US sailors

• protect US cities from foreign attacks

• counter a German invasion of Latin America

Isolationists in the Senate objected to the US joining the League of Nations because opposed

• creation of security council

• colonialism in Africa & Asia

• membership in League of Nations

• involvement in future foreign wars

Factor associated with US declaring war on Spain in 1898?

• isolationist party

• labor union pressure

• yellow journalism

• unrestricted submarine warfare