Imperialism+Reading+Objectives+-+Part+III

__**After reading this chapter, you should be able to:**__ 1. Explain what caused America to enter World War I. 2.Describe how Wilsonian idealism turned the war into an ideological crusade for democracy that inspired public fervor and suppressed dissent. 3.Discuss America’s mobilization for war and its reliance primarily on voluntary methods rather than government force. 4. Explain the consequences of World War I for labor, women, and African Americans. 5.Describe America’s participation in the War, and explain why its economic and political importance exceeded its military contribution to the Allied victory and German defeat. 6.Analyze Wilson’s attempt to forge a peace based on his idealistic Fourteen Points, the political mistakes that weakened his hand, and the compromises he was forced to make by the other Allied statesmen at Versailles. 7.Discuss how Lodge and others resisted Wilson’s League of Nations, how Wilson’s total refusal to compromise doomed the Treaty of Versailles, and why Harding’s victory in the election of 1920 became the final death sentence for the League.