HISTORY 40C Study Guide - Quiz Guide: George Creel, Muckraker, Xenophobia
8 Jun 2016
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Midwestern progressive and a muckraker, the cpi distributed 75 million copies of pamphlets explaining us awr aims in several languages. 75000 four-minute men to deliver succinct, uplifting war speeches to numerous groups in their home cities and towns. Congress gave the administration sweeping powers to silence and imprison dissenters. These acts went beyond outlawing ehavior that no nation at war could be expected to tolerate, such as spying for the enemy, sabotaging war production, and calling for the enemy"s victory. Now citizens could be prosecuted or writng or uttering any statement that could be construed as profaning the flag, the. Constitution, or the military: treaty of versailles on june 28, 1919, great britain, france, and the united. States, germany and other european nations signed it. In 1921, an alled commission notified the germans that they were to pay the victors billon. Stopped wwi: league of nations most important of wilson"s fourteen points.
