The summer of 1919 also brought the ratification of the ________ (1919) to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
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Woodrow Wilson
________ insisted that the United States wanted a new, democratic Europe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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