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Chapter 23
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Woodrow Wilson assume that all nations knew about foreign states? | the United States had no wish to injure any foreign state |
| In 1911, what dictator did the liberal coalition overthrow? | Porfirio Diaz |
| Wilson demanded that Huerta hold free what as the price of American mediation in the continuing civil war? | elections |
| What mexican rebel was almost impossible to catch? | Pancho Villa |
| Neutrals could trade freely with any belligerent under what? | international law |
| In order to search for goods headed for the enemy, neutral merchant ships were forced into what forts? | British or French |
| What were the Germans portrayed as? | ruthless barbarians |
| The Germans conducted a propaganda campaign in the US, but they labored under severe handicaps and won few what? | converts |
| The British declared all what to be contraband of war? | all commodities and nearly all foodstuffs |
| The immense expansion of what made an embargo unthinkable? | American trade with the Allies |
| During the first months of the Great War, the Germans were not especially concerned about neutral trade or American goods because they expected to what? | to crush the Allied armies quickly |
| Torpedoes launched from below the surface without warning often result in a what? | heavy loss of life |
| In February 1915, the Germans declared the waters surrounding the British Isles a what? | zone of war |
| Wilson won presidency in 1912 only because the Republican party had what? | split in two |
| Who said there must be "peace without victory?" | Woodrow Wilson |