HIST 1493 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Money Supply, Executive Order 9066, Public Works Administration
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U. s. declared war to try to keep world safe from democracy, chivalrous action, benefited other countries; declaration in 1917; president wilson addressed congress to announce that diplomatic relations with germany were severed. In a special session of congress held on 2 april 1917, president. Four days later, congress overwhelmingly passed the war. Resolution which brought the united states into the great war. Eight years of democratic rule followed by twelve of republican ascendancy under three inept. Presidents - warren g. harding, calvin coolidge, and herbert hoover. Progressive republicans, having been piped away by theodore roosevelt into the bull moose wilderness, had to struggle back on their knees, if at all; for the party was now in the hands of conservatives and reactionaries. They, in general, regarded the demoratic interlude of 1913-21 as abnormal, the war which wilson had led them into as a failure, and his new freedom an unnecessary obstruction to free enterprise.
