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=**Chapter 23: America and the Great War**=

**Main Ideas:**

 * 1) The gradual involvement of the United States in WWI, from leaning toward the Allies since the outbreak of hostilities to eventually being drawn into full participation in the war.
 * 2) The decisive impact of American intervention on land and sea in tipping the balance of victory for the beleaguered Allied forces.
 * 3) The war mobilization of the Wilson administration - how they financed the war, managed the economy, and encouraged public support of the war effort.
 * 4) The idealistic aims and bitter defeats suffered by Woodrow Wilson internationalist foreign policy after World War I.
 * 5) The profound economic, social, and racial significance of America's involvement in the Great War.

**Text Resources:**
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 * Handouts/Homework: DBQs:** "The ideals used to justify U.S. involvement in World War I disguised the real reasons for Wilson's change in policy from neutrality to war and, in fact, violated the traditional values of the American nation." Assess the validity of this statement using the following documents and your knwoledge of the timeperiod. (To help answer this question, consider the reasons for the change in U.S. policy in 1917, AND whether these reasons were consistent with traditional American values). (AP Amsco p.465)=====

"When World War I broke out, the United States declared its policy of neutrality. Was the United States ever neutral in the conflict, and if so, when did it change to a policy favoring the Allies?" Use the documents and your knowledge of history in the 1910s to construct your response. (Princeton Review, Cracking the APUSH Exam, p212, documents explained p264).

“WWI was the culmination of progressivism in America.” Comment on the validity of this statement during the period 1901-1921. (AP Achiever, practice Q p455, advice p460)
 * FRQs:**