Junisa(HIST102) Choose 4 of the following questions to answer. 1. What was the relationship between America's economic interests abroad and the expansionist impulse of the late 19th Century? What were the intellectual currents that encouraged Americans to believe their country should be an imperial power? 2. Why in the late 19th Century did it become untenable for the United States to adhere to its traditional isolation from world affairs? 3. What were the causes of World War I and what made it a "world" war? 4. Why did America become involved in the war? How did President Wilson justify his decision to enter the war in 1917? Was the war in the national interest? 5. What was President Wilson's vision of the post-war world, and how did he specifically propose to achieve it? How did European powers react to Wilson's ideas? Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to ratify the peace treaty?