Chapter 22 - America and the Great War (1914-1920)

Nineteenth Amendment

The summer of 1919 also brought the ratification of the ________ (1919) to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

Woodrow Wilson

________ insisted that the United States wanted a new, democratic Europe.

Russia

Communists seized power in November 1917 in ________ and negotiated a separate peace treaty with Germany, thus freeing the Germans to focus on the Western Front.

Wilson administration

The ________ declared the nation neutral but allowed businesses to extend loans to the warring nations, principally the Allies (Britain, France, and Russia), to purchase food and military supplies.

Espionage and Sedition Acts

The federal government severely curtailed civil liberties, and the ________ of 1917 and 1918 criminalized virtually any public opposition to the war.

Wilson administration

The ________ drafted young men into the army and created new agencies such as the War Industries Board and the Food Administration to coordinate industrial production and agricultural consumption.