STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 22 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
THE PATH TO WAR

  • Describe Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy during his first term in office. How did Wilson see the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world?

  • Is it fair to describe the American people as “isolationist” prior to America’s entry into World War I? Why or why not?

 THE HOME FRONT

  • How did the war affect the progressive agenda? How did progressives use the war to achieve their goals?

  • To what extent did U.S. participation in World War I involve the domestic efforts of the American people?
A TROUBLED PEACE

  • What vision did Wilson have of the postwar world? Why did the Senate refuse to endorse his vision, as embodied in the Treaty of Versailles?

  • What led to the Red scare, and why did it eventually subside?

 LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD

  • Why did a majority of Americans initially oppose the country’s entry into World War I? What events and experiences in the country’s past helped shape prewar public opinion?

  • How did World War I change the place of the United States in the world? What role in world affairs was America poised to take as it entered the 1920s?

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