Question 1

Why did the United States fail to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations?

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A)   President Wilson would not compromise on the terms of the treaty.
B)   Americans overwhelmingly opposed the League of Nations.
C)   The House of Representatives voted against the treaty's ratification.
D)   President Wilson's health limited his ability to lobby the members of Congress for their support.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 2

Which group of American senators opposed the Treaty of Versailles?

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A)   Democratic interventionists
B)   Republican isolationists
C)   Democratic party loyalists
D)   Roosevelt progressivesE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 3

Once Congress declared war against Germany in April 1917, President Wilson stated the Americans' goal in the war was to

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A)   vindicate the principles of peace and justice.
B)   destroy Germany and the other Axis powers.
C)   restructure Europe to exclude Germany.
D)   prevent Germany from conquering the United States.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 4

President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to

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A)   silence the antiwar film industry.
B)   ban novels written by German authors.
C)   stir up patriotism with posters, pamphlets, cartoons, and press releases.
D)   protect war critics like Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

How were Wilson's Fourteen Points honored in the Versailles treaty?

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A)   The treaty included the establishment of the League of Nations.
B)   The treaty guaranteed freedom of the seas for all nations.
C)   Germany's colonies in Asia were granted self-determination.
D)   Germany was required pay war reparations to its former rivals.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

What was the impact of Great Britain's blockade of Germany in 1914?

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A)   The United States immediately cut off trade with Great Britain.
B)   Trade between the United States and Great Britain increased.
C)   Trade between the United States and Germany was not affected.
D)   President Wilson immediately declared war against Germany.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 7

Which of the following describes Wilson's experience in the presidential election of 1916?

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A)   He faced two opponents: Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Evans Hughes.
B)   He won the election but only by a very small margin.
C)   Divisions in the Democratic party compelled him to run on the Reform ticket.
D)   He promised that he would continue to keep the United States out of the war in Europe.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 8

Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge oppose the Treaty of Versailles?

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A)   He believed that Great Britain should be allowed to retain its empire.
B)   He feared it would allow Wilson to win the presidency again in 1920.
C)   He feared the League of Nations would interfere with American autonomy in foreign policy matters.
D)   He thought Germany should be forced to pay higher reparations than those specified in the agreement.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 9

What events triggered World War I? In Europe, who declared war against whom?

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World War I began on July 28, 1914, a mo...

Question 10

Match the term with the definition.
-Proposed in the Fourteen Points, this international organization was designed to secure political independence and territorial integrity for all states and thus ensure enduring peace. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, and the United States never became a member.

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A)  American Expeditionary Force (AEF) 
B)  Bolshevik
C)  Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) 
D)  Fourteen Points
E)  League of NationsF) LusitaniaG) Nineteenth Amendment (woman suffrage) H) Red scareI) Schenck v. United StatesJ) Triple AllianceK) Triple EntenteL) Versailles treatyM) I) and L)
N) C) and I)

Question 11

How did U.S. workers respond to the government's efforts to return the United States to a peacetime economy in 1919? What was the outcome of their actions?

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Question 12

Why did the United States take a firm stand on maintaining neutrality in World War I in 1914 and then reverse this policy and send American troops to Europe in 1917?

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Question 13

Which divisions did European countries establish before the outbreak of World War I?

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A)   Western Europe and Eastern Europe
B)   The Axis powers and the Allied nations
C)   The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance
D)   The British and the German empiresE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 14

The war provided a huge boost for the temperance movement and led to what outcome by late 1917?

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A)   Congressional passage of the Eighteenth Amendment
B)   Prohibition victories in more than half the states
C)   Prohibitionists' determination to lead a new national Temperance Commission
D)   The establishment of a national drinking age of twenty-one to prevent the sale of liquor to minorsE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Why did President Wilson intervene in Mexican affairs beginning in 1914? What was the outcome of his intervention?

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Question 16

Match the term with the definition.
-Russian revolutionaries who forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate and seized power in Russia in 1917. In a separate peace with Germany, their new revolutionary government withdrew Russia from World War I.

Accepted Answer

A)  American Expeditionary Force (AEF) 
B)  Bolshevik
C)  Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) 
D)  Fourteen Points
E)  League of NationsF) LusitaniaG) Nineteenth Amendment (woman suffrage) H) Red scareI) Schenck v. United StatesJ) Triple AllianceK) Triple EntenteL) Versailles treatyM) H) and I)
N) A) and F)

Question 17

Match the term with the definition.
-American armed forces under the command of General John Pershing, who fought under a separate American command in Europe during World War I. They helped defeat Germany when they entered the conflict in full force in 1918.

Accepted Answer

A)  American Expeditionary Force (AEF) 
B)  Bolshevik
C)  Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) 
D)  Fourteen Points
E)  League of NationsF) LusitaniaG) Nineteenth Amendment (woman suffrage) H) Red scareI) Schenck v. United StatesJ) Triple AllianceK) Triple EntenteL) Versailles treatyM) A) and C)
N) E) and F)

Question 18

According to Map 22.2: European Alliances after the Outbreak of World War I, which nation remained neutral following the outbreak of World War I?

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A)   Luxembourg
B)   Bulgaria
C)   Albania
D)   SerbiaE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 19

What chain of events finally moved President Wilson to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany?

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Question 20

". . . If we be indeed democrats and wish to lead the world to democracy, we can ask other peoples to accept in proof of our sincerity and our ability to lead them whither they wish to be led, nothing less persuasive and convincing than our actions. . . . They are looking to the great, powerful, famous democracy of the West to lead them to a new day for which they have so long waited; and they think, in their logical simplicity, that democracy means that women shall play their part in affairs alongside men and upon an equal footing with them.
)  . . We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?
This war could not have been fought, either by the other nations engaged or by America, if it had not been for the services of the women-services rendered in every sphere. . . .
)  . . I tell you plainly that this measure which I urge upon you is vital to the winning of the war and to the energies alike of preparation and of battle.
)  . . And not to winning the war only. It is vital to the right solution of the great problems which we must settle, and settle immediately, when the war is over. We shall need in our vision of affairs, as we have never needed them before, the sympathy and insight and clear moral instinct of the women of the world. . . . We shall need their moral sense to preserve what is right and fine and worthy in our system of life as well as to discover just what it is that ought to be purified and reformed. Without their counsellings we shall be only half wise."
What was one of Woodrow Wilson's arguments for passing the Nineteenth Amendment allowing women to vote?

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A)   That if African Americans can vote, then white women should be allowed to as well
B)   That allowing women to vote would prevent them from turning against the United States during the war
C)   That allowing women to vote is essential to winning the war
D)   That after the war, the United States could revoke women's right to voteE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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Match the term with the definition. -Russian revolutionaries who forced Czar Nicholas II to abdicate and seized power in Russia in 1917. In a separate peace with Germany, their new revolutionary government withdrew Russia from World War I.

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Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge oppose the Treaty of Versailles?

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