The document provides background information on several topics related to World War 1 and the early 20th century United States. It discusses the Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Panama Canal, pluralism in democracy, Niagara Movement, Woodrow Wilson's presidency and role in WWI, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Allied and Central powers, events like the sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Fourteen Points, Vladimir Lenin, Bernard Baruch, 19th Amendment, Prohibition, Espionage Act of 1917, NAACP, Gentleman's Agreement, WEB DuBois, Niagara Movement, Great Migration, UNIA, USSR, Red Scare, and the

1. Chapter 19: Safe for
Democracy: The United
States and World War I,
1916–1920
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2. Monroe Doctrine
• President James Monroe’s declaration to Congress on December 2,1823
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That the American continents would be then forth closed to European colonization,
and that the United States would not interfere in European affairs

3. Panama Canal
• U.S.-backed separation of Panama from Colombia
• U.S. acquisition of Panama Canal Zone
• Construction of Panama Canal
• Roosevelt Corollary [to the Monroe Doctrine]

4. WORLD WAR 1
• Created a national state of unpredictable powers and increase presence in
everyday American lives

5. PLURALISM
• Democracy power dispersed among variety of economic pressure groups
and no single elite groups allowed

6. NIAGRA MOVEMENT
• W.E.B Du Bois and other black leaders gathered at the Niagara Falls, and
sought to reinvigorate (strengthen) the abolitionist tradition.

7. Roosevelt Corollary
• An addendum to the Monroe Doctrine that held that the United States had
the right to exercise an international police power in the Western
Hemisphere
• Roosevelt announced that the U.S. would intervene to ensure the stability
and solvency of Latin American nations
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Particularly the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Cuba
Many of these nations were in severe debt with Europe

8. Woodrow Wilson
• President of the united States
• Made the United States neutral with WW1 until 1917
• In 1918, he promoted united States to be involve in the Great War
• He was president of Princeton University
• He received the Nobel Peace Prize because of the 14 point plan

9. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• 1914 assassination
• Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

10. Allies
• England
• France
• Russia, Switzerland
• United states, Belgium
• Italy, Serbia

11. Central Powers
• Germany
• Austria-Hungary
• Ottoman Empire

12. Lusitania
• British passenger liner sunk by a German u-boat, May 7, 1915, creating a
diplomatic crisis and public outrage at the loss of 128 Americans; Germany
agree to pay reparations, and the United States waited two more years
before entering WW1

13. Zimmerman Telegram
• From the German foreign secretary to the German minister in Mexico,
February 1917, instructing him to offer to recover Texas, New Mexico, and
Arizona for Mexico if it would fight the United States to divert attention
from Germany in the event that the United States joined the war.

14. Fourteen Points
• President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 plan for peace after World War I; at the
Versailles peace conference, however, he failed to incorporate all of the
points into the treaty.

15. Vladimir I. Lenin
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Bolshevik leader forced to live outside of Russia
Returned in April 1917
Germany hoped Lenin would weaken the Russia war effort
Lenin became a leader
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Established radical communist program
Made private ownership of land illegal
Land given to peasants
Control of factories given to workers

17. Bernard Baruch
• Wall street financier

18. 19th Amendment
• Granted women the right to vote

19. Prohibition
• 18th amendment (1920) banned manufacture, sale, and transportation of
alcohol-increase in the number of “speakeasies”
• Criminals and bootlegging
• Gang wars, police corruption, disrespect for loyal citizens-end of prohibition

20. Espionage Act of 1917
• The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited not only spying and interfering with
the draft but also false statements that might impede military success

21. National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
• Founded in 1910, this civil rights organization brought lawsuits against
discriminatory practices and published The Crisis, a journal edited by
African-American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois

22. Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907
• The United States would not exclude Japanese immigrants.
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If, Japan would voluntarily limit the number of immigrants coming in the United
States

23. WEB DuBois
• Founder of NAACP
• Wrote a book called “ The Soul of Black Folk” in 1903
• Highly educated man

24. Niagara Movement

25. Great Migration
• Large scale migration of southern blacks during and after World War one to
the North, where jobs had become available during the labor shortage of
the war years

26. Universal Negro Improvement Association
• Founded by Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey, the UNIA was popular with
poor urban blacks. It advocated a "Back to Africa" movement and stimulated
racial pride among African Americans.

27. United Soviet Socialist Republican
• The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to USSR or the Soviet
Union, was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between
1922 and 1991, governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party
with Moscow as its capital

28. Red Scare
• Fear among many Americans after World War I of Communists in particular
and noncitizens in general, a reaction to the Russian Revolution, mail
bombs, strikes, and riots.
• Alarmed by the violent acts of a few anarchists and communists after World
War I, the government resorted to the illegal round ups of innocent people
and forcible deportation of aliens
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Lasted roughly a year and a half

29. Versailles Treaty
• Harsh document that all but guaranteed future conflict in Europe