USA HISTORY

High death tollsHigh costs of warInternational tension between nationsAre all reasons the United States:

(A) pushed for Isolationism and to be a part of the League of Nations

(B) ** pushed to promote world peace by launching new initiatives in the 1920s

(C) pushed for neutrality in future wars and to be a part of the League of Nations

(D) pushed to promote world peace by joining the League of Nations and restricting immigration from Germany

Concept note-1: -American losses in World War I, though significant, were modest compared to those of other belligerents. The United States lost comparatively few men because it did not enter the war until 1917, was slow to build a large army in France, and fought in only thirteen major battles.

Concept note-2: -The spark that ignited World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand-heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire-was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.

Concept note-3: -In economic terms, the First World War-fought at an estimated cost of $208 billion-caused the greatest global depression of the 20th century. Debts accrued by all of the major combatants, with the notable exception of the USA, stalked the post-war economic world. Unemployment was rife.