Part A
Short-Answer Questions
Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the short-answer questions that follow each document in the
space provided.
Document 1a
… I venture, therefore, my fellow countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against
that deepest, most subtle, most essential breach [break] of neutrality which may spring out of
partisanship, out of passionately taking sides. The United States must be neutral in fact as well
as in name during these days that are to try men’s souls. We must be impartial in thought as well
as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might
be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.…
Source: President Woodrow Wilson, Message to the United States Senate, August 19, 1914
According to President Woodrow Wilson, what policy should the United States follow in response to war
breaking out in Europe in 1914? [1]