Woodrow Wilson

Many Americans thought that isolationism west the best choice for the country at the time. They believed that America should worry about its problems and stay out of foreign issues. Support for isolationism came from many things, disillusionment with the League of Nations and its inability to stop Japanese aggression, thinking they were tricked by big business into entering World War I, and many Americans didn’t want to be involved because of the devastation from World War I and the Great…

Randolph Bourne, “War is the Health of the State,” 1918 In this document, Bourne, a Progressive author, addresses American citizens in an essay on the effects of war. Although many of Bourne’s fellow Progressives embraced war as a way to speed up the advancement of their socialist causes, Bourne rejected this opinion, insisting although war may seem to strength a nation through the renewal of nationalistic ties and improvement of the popular image of government, involvement in a war becomes a…

Immigration in the twentieth century continued to increase caused by the growth of opportunities in the United States. Continued growth of immigration continued the need for reform. The “Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903 added four inadmissible classes: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes” ("List of United States Immigration Laws.”) Twentieth century immigrants known as “undesirables” further grew to prevent the an unwanted change in society. The immigration act…

The Progressive Movement was a phase of extensive social activism and political reform all over the United states, from 1890s to 1920s. Progressivism in the United States was a widely based reform movement that reached its height in early 20th century which is generally believed to be middle class and reformist in nature. The modernization brought a vast change, such as the development of big corporations, pollution and a big fears of corruption in American government. It refers to the various…

"Conservation means development as much as it does protection." Teddy Roosevelt stated this quote about conservation and protecting our wildlife. Scene teddy was a kid he always wanted to help keep nature. When Theodore Roosevelt passed the national reclamation Act in 1902, he took a stand, preserving our natural resources ,coal companies and miners opposed this act because it limited their projects. As a result Teddy established a federal government that managed the scale of water used.…

What would you do if 17 million people died because of you? While the unwarranted murder of anyone is morally wrong and should not happen, there have been a few cases in history where someone who was assassinated got what they deserved. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, despite multiple warnings from his security advisors of terrorist activity by the “Black Hand,” decided to make a trip to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo (Ferrera 1). The heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was shot and killed…

(America Path to intervention in World War I). President Wilson is stating the only way to secure the world's democracy was to engage in war. Germany; furthermore, miscalculated the consequences of sending the Zimmerman telegram. The Zimmerman telegram was a note intercepted by Great Britain promising to help Mexico get its…

1900-1945, four major things occurred, the world war one, 1920s, Great Depression and the New Deal, and the second world war. World war one began because the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in 1914. At the beginning of the war President Wilson decided to stay neutral. Later the Lusitania was sunk by Germany and Germany also sent a letter to Mexico called the Zimmerman telegram. During this era many technologies and techniques for war emerged like machine guns, poisons gas,…

When the Great War broke out in 1914, the U.S. was clear that they wanted no part in this “European quarrel” (1). The U.S. would remain neutral throughout numerous German prods until 1917 when they join the Allies. This paper will review why joining World War I was the right choice for the U.S. and how, despite all of our losses in the war, it ultimately benefited us. During the first year of the war, most Americans had little reason to be rooting for a particular side in the war other than…

War 1 on the side of England, France, and Russia. The reason why the United States had the right to enter is because Germany had already declared war on us and the people of the United States, the Zimmerman Note that Britain intercepted and gave to Wilson which stated an alliance with Mexico, and if we didn’t go to war, England, France, and Russia would have lost the war which would be bad for us if we stayed neutral. Germany used unauthorized submarine warfare. Submarine warfare is when…