USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

END OF WWI

[SOURCES]
Which one of these groups DID NOT protest the draft?

(A) Pacifists

(B) Jane Addams and the Women’s Peace Party

(C) Men who were drafted

(D) ** Woodrow Wilson

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -For many, it was personal. Some opposed war on principle or religious conviction; others were scared of dying or saw no compelling reason to risk themselves for emancipation, states’ rights, slavery, sectional particularism, or the concept of an “indivisible” Union.

Concept note-2: -Groups opposed to the war included the Russian Bolsheviks, the Socialist Party of America, the Italian Socialist Party, and the socialist faction led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in Germany (later to become the Communist Party of Germany).

Concept note-3: -The 14 points included proposals to ensure world peace in the future: open agreements, arms reductions, freedom of the seas, free trade, and self-determination for oppressed minorities.