USA HISTORY

In 1912, President-elect Wilson announced that, “There’s no chance of progress and reform in an administration in which war plays the principal part.” In his speech, he was expressing his view that ____

(A) the United States should enter World War I immediately

(B) reform movements are strengthened by war

(C) the nation should change its leadership if it goes to war

(D) ** the Progressive Movement would best be served by a continuation of peace

Concept note-1: -However, Wilson’s capstone point calling for a world organization that would provide some system of collective security was incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles. This organization would later be known as the League of Nations.

Concept note-2: -The Fourteen Points were a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress on January 8, 1918, outlining his vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent such a conflagration from occurring again.

Concept note-3: -Wilson’s proposal called for the victorious Allies to set unselfish peace terms with the vanquished Central Powers of World War I, including freedom of the seas, the restoration of territories conquered during the war and the right to national self-determination in such contentious regions as the Balkans.