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    There were four main leaders during the Versailles Conference and they were: Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and Vittorio Orlando. Each of them had major goals that would benefit them since the war was on their land. Vittorio Orlando, the Prime Minister of Italy, worked to get the extra land for Italy. Originally,

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    Maya Stepansky Mr. Meyer Progressive Era DBQ Toward the latter part of the 19th century, bustling America, in response to the trends of industrialization and urbanization that characterized its Gilded Age, began its new century by entering into a new historical/political epoch that came to be known as the Progressive Era. This distinctive period in history (spanning from the 1890s through 1920) found progressives seeking to use the American federal government as a means of change through social

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    and failures of the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, it is essential to define the image he portrayed to the American population during his presidency. Many Americans and historians will claim he was a man of impartiality and the one who led America into WWI. He had a very solid influence on Congress for the many domestic and foreign affair policies he endorsed. The goal is to illustrate how President Woodrow Wilson ran his presidency in the eyes of the American citizens. This will

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    World War One, a war that was centralized in Europe and resulted due to the reaction to the assassination of the archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz, Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophia, on June 28th, 14 at Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s at the hands of Gavrilo Princip, a nineteen year old who had ties with the military group known as the Black Hand. For the war, there were two alliances made that were fighting: the Triple Entente made up of Britain, France, and Russia and the Triple Alliance made up

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    President Wilson 's Fourteen Points became the basis for a peace program, suggesting that a League of Nations should be established to guarantee the political and territorial independence of countries. (Fighting in WW1 ceased when the armistice went into effect on

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    League of Nations, among some people. Some people, such as Herbert Hoover, argue that the League of Nations is crucial to the economic recovery of Europe from the war and should be ratified for that reason (Doc 3). He sent this in a letter to Woodrow Wilson - a strong advocate for the League of Nations and the man who

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    Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of The United States from 1913 to 1921. President Wilson showed what kind of president he planned to be as soon as he took office. He knew there were a need for responsible part government and the necessity for strong leadership to make it work. Wilson went in person and stood before Congress to demand satisfaction of his first Democratic campaign promise to reform the tariff, the tax on imports. He also worked closely with leaders in the House of Representatives

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    Final Exam Essays Essay Prompt 1: Discuss why the United States has only two major political parties. The United States government is commonly referred to as a “Duopoly”, which means that there are two established political parties, Democratic and Republic, and that these two parties share the vast majority of the political power in the country. This is because the United States follows a winner-takes-all voting system, utilizing a “single-member district plurality”. The “single-member district”

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    With the status of the country’s belligerency heavily in question, an apprehensive President Woodrow Wilson prepared to request from an unmotivated and unprepared country a declaration of war against Germany. After exerting every attempt possible to retain the peace and honor of the United States, the President was finally forced to choose between the two, in which he opted for the latter (Seymour 26). As he sat down to compose his congressional address proposing war, the uncertainty of his decision

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    History of the United States from 1877 to 1917: Industrial Revolution There are five important things that every American citizen needs to know about the time period from 1877 to 1917: #5. The 1896 Presidential elections in which William McKinley was elected, marked one of the most important elections of the 19th century since the beginning and the end of Civil War when Abraham Lincoln was the President. The 1896 elections were highly symbolic in that the victory of McKinley also meant victory

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