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  2. Opposition to World War I - Wikipedia

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    In France, women activists from both the working-class socialist women's and the middle-class suffrage movements formed their own groups to oppose the war. However, they were unable to coordinate their efforts because of mutual suspicion due to class and political differences.

  3. Anti-imperialism - Wikipedia

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    The American rejection of the League of Nations in 1919 was accompanied with a sharp American reaction against European imperialism. American textbooks denounced imperialism as a major cause of the World War. The uglier aspects of British colonial rule were emphasized, recalling the long-standing anti-British sentiments in the United States. [25]

  4. American entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    The African-American community did not take a strong position one way or the other. A month after Congress declared war, W. E. B. Du Bois called on African-Americans to "fight shoulder to shoulder with the world to gain a world where war shall be no more". [40] Once the war began and black men were drafted, they worked to achieve equality. [41]

  5. Diplomatic history of World War I - Wikipedia

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    In 1914 the war was so unexpected that no one had formulated long-term goals. An ad-hoc meeting of the French and British ambassadors with the Russian Foreign Minister in early September led to a statement of war aims that was not official, but did represent ideas circulating among diplomats in St. Petersburg, Paris, and London, as well as the secondary allies of Belgium, Serbia, and Montenegro.

  6. Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration - Wikipedia

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    It also explains why, though Americans were incensed at the British interference with commerce, the controversy was kept within the arena of debate. [10] The two key Allied ambassadors were Cecil Spring Rice for Britain and Jean Jules Jusserand for France.

  7. American Anti-Imperialist League - Wikipedia

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    The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. The anti-imperialists opposed forced expansion, believing that imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from "consent of the governed".

  8. United States non-interventionism - Wikipedia

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    United States non-interventionism primarily refers to the foreign policy that was eventually applied by the United States between the late 18th century and the first half of the 20th century whereby it sought to avoid alliances with other nations in order to prevent itself from being drawn into wars that were not related to the direct territorial self-defense of the United States.

  9. French entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    Any lingering harmony, however, collapsed in 1905 by Germany taking an aggressively hostile position on French claims to Morocco. There was talk of war, and France strengthened its ties with Britain and Russia. [10] Even critics of French imperialism, such as Georges Clemenceau, had become impatient with Berlin.