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President Wilson's legal attack on anticompetitive and unfair business practices was implemented by passage of the


A) Jones Act.
B) Federal Trade Commission Act.
C) Clayton Act.
D) Adamson Act.
E) Federal Reserve Act.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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For German military strategists, the entry of the United States into the war in April 1917 meant that


A) they would no longer be able to use their submarine weapon effectively.
B) they would have to defeat France and Britain before a large American force arrived in Europe.
C) they would have to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities and peace treaty with Russia.
D) the war would become one of swift movements rather than stalemated trench warfare.
E) they would have to switch from an offensive to a defensive strategy.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Bernard Baruch

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Jennings Bryan

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To secure passage of the Underwood Tariff Bill, President Woodrow Wilson broke new ground by


A) enlisting organized business groups to lobby for its passage.
B) personally presenting his case to Congress and arousing public opinion.
C) writing a book showing that high tariffs were harming the American economy.
D) stirring up western and southern regional hostility against the high-tariff East.
E) All of these choices are correct.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Sarajevo

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Treaty of Versailles

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​Which one of the following was​notamong Wilson's Fourteen Points, upon which he based America's idealistic foreign policy in World War I?


A) ​Reduction of armaments.
B) ​An international guarantee of freedom of religion.
C) ​Abolition of secret treaties.
D) ​An international organization to guarantee collective security.
E) ​The principle of national self-determination for subject peoples.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Assess Wilson's conduct of foreign policy from 1914 to 1917. Do you think that he could have pursued a different course that would have kept the United States out of the war? Should he have? Why or why not?

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Summarize President Wilson's Fourteen Points. Which were substantially attained as a result of American participation in World War I? Which were not? Why? Which political leaders in America and Europe bear the greatest responsibility for the failure to attain the most critically important of Wilson's Fourteen Points concerning peace, collective security, democracy, and self-determination?

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The Second Battle of the Marne was significant because it


A) was the first time American troops saw action in France.
B) marked a temporary reversal of the Allies progress in Europe that extended the war by, at least, six months.
C) was the first time American troops fought by themselves.
D) saw the first use of combat aircraft.
E) marked the beginning of a German withdrawal that was never reversed.

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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Based on the run-up to World War I, the wartime experience of America as a political and military ally of Great Britain and France, and the immediate postwar political conflict and disillusionment America experienced in trying to determine and establish its proper place in world affairs, why is it fair to say that the issue of Wilsonianism has dominated discussions and debates of American foreign policy from the World War I era to the present? How does the debate among American historians about Woodrow Wilson in "Varying Viewpoints: Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?" help you form your answer about the fundamental place of Wilsonianism in the debates over American foreign policy from 1914 to the present?

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Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917 ​ Locate the following places by reference number on the map: ​Europe and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, 1914-1917 ​    -____ Locate the Black Sea. -____ Locate the Black Sea.

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President Wilson's position at the Paris Peace Conference was weakened by


A) his refusal to attend the conference personally.
B) Republican party victories in the 1918 midterm elections.
C) his lack of popular support among people outside the United States.
D) his failure to appoint a leading Senate Republican to the conference delegation.
E) his paralyzing stroke.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -U-boats

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act

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Wilson once remarked that he was "going to teach the South American republics to elect good men." Do you think that this was a proper function for the president of the United States? Why or why not? Use U.S. relations with Mexico to illustrate your view.

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Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it


A) failed to provide enough German financial reparations to the United States.
B) violated Wilson's own Fourteen Points.
C) robbed Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powers by entangling America in an international organization capable of authorizing collective force against an aggressor nation.
D) isolated the United States from postwar world affairs.
E) made collective international security and alliances of peaceful democratic states more difficult to construct and sustain.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was


A) Felix Frankfurter.
B) Benjamin Cardozo.
C) Abraham Cahan.
D) Louis D. Brandeis.
E) Bernard Baruch.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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The dangerous proviso that Germany attached to its Sussex pledge not to attack unarmed neutral shipping was the requirement that


A) Americans would have to refrain from sailing on British-owned passenger ships.
B) U-Boats could capture merchant vessels if the submarines surfaced.
C) the Americans would have to guarantee that passenger vessels were not secretly carrying military supplies.
D) the United States would have to persuade the Allies to end their blockade of Germany or submarine warfare would be resumed.
E) Woodrow Wilson would have to seek a fair, negotiated settlement of the war.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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