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CHAPTER 21 – America and the Great War

1. THE “BIG STICK”: AMERICA AND THE WORLD, 1901-1917

a. Roosevelt and “Civilization”

b. Protecting the “Open Door” in Asia

c. The Iron-Fisted Neighbor

d. The Panama Canal

e. Taft and “Dollar Diplomacy”

f. Diplomacy and Morality

2. THE ROAD TO WAR

a. The Collapse of the European Peace

b. Wilson’s Neutrality

c. Preparedness versus Pacifism

d. A War for Democracy

3. “WAR WITHOUT STINT”

a. Entering the War

b. The American Expeditionary Force

c. The Military Struggle

d. The New Technology of Warfare

4. THE WAR AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

a. Organizing the Economy for War

b. Labor and the War

c. Economic and Social Results of the War

5. THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR SOCIAL UNITY

a. The Peace Movement

b. Selling the War and Suppressing Dissent

6. THE SEARCH FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER

a. The Fourteen Points

b. Early Obstacles

c. The Paris Peace Conference

d. The Ratification Battle

e. Wilson’s Ordeal

7. A SOCIETY IN TURMOIL

a. Industry and Labor

b. The Demands of African Americans

c. The Red Scare

d. Refuting the Red Scare

e. The Retreat from Idealism

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• Great Migration
• American Expeditionary Force
• unilateral foreign policy
• mangament, labor
• freedom of speech
• neutrality
• Treaty of Versailles
• isolationism
• Red Scare
• Woodrow Wilson
• League of Nations

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Allies
• United Negro Improvement Association
• Central Powers
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Zimmerman Telegram
• General John J. Pershing
• jazz
• Great Migration
• Yiddish theater
• League of Nations
• Edward Hooper
• Luisitania
• Trench Warfare
• Marcus Garvey
• Triple Alliance
• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• Triple Entente
• Nineteenth Amendment
• Big Stick policy
• Palmer Raids
• Panama Canal
• Pancho Villa
• Roosevelt Corollary
• Moral Diplomacy
• Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
• preparedness
• Fourteen Points
• "He kept us out of war"
• War Industries Board
• Creel Committee
• Big Four
• reparations
• Boston Police Strike
• Calvin Coolidge

Johnny Got His Gun

All Quiet on the Western Front

Sergeant York

Elmer Gantry