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Chapter 23
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
Question | Answer |
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What did Woodrow Wilson assume that all nations knew about foreign states? | the United States had no wish to injure any foreign state |
In 1911, what dictator did the liberal coalition overthrow? | Porfirio Diaz |
Wilson demanded that Huerta hold free what as the price of American mediation in the continuing civil war? | elections |
What mexican rebel was almost impossible to catch? | Pancho Villa |
Neutrals could trade freely with any belligerent under what? | international law |
In order to search for goods headed for the enemy, neutral merchant ships were forced into what forts? | British or French |
What were the Germans portrayed as? | ruthless barbarians |
The Germans conducted a propaganda campaign in the US, but they labored under severe handicaps and won few what? | converts |
The British declared all what to be contraband of war? | all commodities and nearly all foodstuffs |
The immense expansion of what made an embargo unthinkable? | American trade with the Allies |
During the first months of the Great War, the Germans were not especially concerned about neutral trade or American goods because they expected to what? | to crush the Allied armies quickly |
Torpedoes launched from below the surface without warning often result in a what? | heavy loss of life |
In February 1915, the Germans declared the waters surrounding the British Isles a what? | zone of war |
Wilson won presidency in 1912 only because the Republican party had what? | split in two |
Who said there must be "peace without victory?" | Woodrow Wilson |