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Social Science 25-26
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson | progressive president who led wartime mobilization and proposed the Fourteen Points |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Senate Republican who blocked treaty ratification without reservations on Article X |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General who directed raids, surveillance, and deportations durning the Red Scare |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President who launched New Deal programs expanding relief, recovery, and reform |
| Warren G. Harding | Wildly popular president who promised normalcy, oversaw prosperity, and left office tarnished by scandal revelations |
| Calvin Coolidge | Business-friendly president who advocated limited government and balanced federal budgets |
| Herbert Hoover | Engineer-president whose Quaker background led him to favor voluntarism; struggled to address the Great Depression |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Statesman who steered Washington Naval Conference and later became Chief Justice |
| Andrew W. Mellon | Treasury secretary who pushed tax cuts, debt reduction, and business confidence |
| William E. Borah | Irreconcilable senator who opposed League membership and international entanglements |
| Allied Powers | coalition opposing Germany in World War I; U.S. entry in 1917 helped secure victory |
| Central Powers | Germany-led alliance confronting Britain, France, and later the Unites States |
| Meuse-Argonne | Final offensive in which Americans forces (“doughboys”) contributes decisively |
| Zimmerman Telegram | German overture to Mexico; disclosures pushed U.S. toward intervention |
| Doughboys | Informal term for American soldiers serving on European battlefields |
| Armistice | Cease-fire ending hostilities while diplomats negotiated complex peace settlements |
| Reparations | Financial penalties imposed on Germany, straining Weimar economy and politics |
| League of Nations | International peace organization proposed by Wilson and devoted to collective security; U.S. senate refused to join |
| Treaty of Versailles | 919 peace treaty ending WWI; punished Germany; created League of Nations |