American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The background factors and the immediate sequence of events that caused the United States to declare war on Germany in 1917.

2. The contributions of the American military to Allied victory in World War I.

3. The extent of government control of the economy during World War I and the results of that control.

4. Propaganda and the extent of war hysteria in the United States during World War I.

5. The announced American objectives in fighting the war.

6. Woodrow Wilson's successes and failures of Versailles.

7. The circumstances that led the United States to reject the Treaty of Versailles.

8. The economic problems the United States faced immediately after the war.

9. The reasons for the Red Scare and the upsurge of racial unrest in postwar America.

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