20th Century History Final I
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- The event that caused the outbreak of war in Europe n 1914 was:
- The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
- At the beginning of World War I, President Wilson:
- Declared a policy of neutrality
- In 1914, the general American reaction to the outbreak of war in Europe was:
- Relief that the United States was uninvolved
- Many of the young men in the United States who eagerly sought to participate in the Great War perceived it as:
- Romantic
- President Wilson wanted to keep the United States out of World War I because he:
- Believed he might control the peace negotiations
- During World War I, Germany attempted to resist the British Blockade of the sea routs to Germany by:
- Use of submarines
- The shift in American public opinion in favor of an Allied victory in World War I concerned when:
- Germany sank the Lusitania
- The least pro-Allied of the men close to President Wilson was:
- William Jennings Bryan
- In dealing with the relations between Mexico and the United States, President Wilson:
- Intervened to protect the economic interests in the United States
- The Republican candidate for President in 1916 was:
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Important in creating an atmosphere favorable for the United States’ entry into World War I was:
- The Zimmerman note
- Important in the United States’ decision to enter World War I was:
- The use of un-restricted submarine warfare by Germany
- In terms of its effect on the domestic affairs in the United States, World War I resulted in:
- Restrictions of freedom of speech
- The selective service system implemented by the Wilson administration:
- Allowed some young men to avoid military service
- According to information collected by the U.S. government, American soldiers who served in World War I:
- Were generally poorly educated and unsophisticated
- During World War I, American women:
- Engaged primarily in support service for male soldiers
- When the United States entered World War I, black leader W.E.B. DuBois:
- Urged blacks to support war
- During World War I, the black soldier:
- Was seldom created equally or fairly by the white American soldiers
- By the time that the United States decided to enter World War I:
- Fighting in western Europe had become a bloody stalemate
- American soldiers who participated in World War I:
- Except for blacks, served in separate units under American commanders
- During World War I, American troops
- Helped repel the all-out offensive Germany launched in 1918
- In financing American involvement in World War I, the Wilson administration:
- Increased taxes and borrowing
- One important impact of World War I on American society was:
- An increase in federal authority over the economic
- In its effort to mobilize the American economy for the war effort during World War I, the Wilson administration:
- Used the power of the government to control scarce materials
- The labor policy of the Wilson administration during World War I:
- Sought to protect and extend the rights of organized labor
- During World War I, women in the United States:
- Found new employment opportunities
- During World War I, social justice progressives in the United States:
- Criticized the government’s restriction on freedom of speech
- By 1918, those who opposed the women’s suffrage movement
- Argued that it would defeminize women
- Wilson based his plan for peace among the warring nations on:
- The Fourteen Points
- President Wilson decided to lead the American delegation negotiations in Paris in 1918 because he:
- Believed that only he could bring peace to the world
- Most historians consider Wilson’s decision to exclude Henry Cabot Lodge from the negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to have been
- A political mistake
- In comparison with the European leaders at the Paris Peace Conference, President Wilson can be characterized as more:
- Idealistic
- The women who organized the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom:
- Predicted that the peace settlement would result in the spread of hatred among nations
- The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I:
- Failed to obtain approval from the United States Senate
- An important legacy of World War I for American society was that it :
- Stimulated pride and patriotism
- Prior to 1915, the United States government restricted American investors from making loans to belligerent countries. Belligerent means that a country:
- Is at war with another country
- Many historians consider it ironic that the election of 1916 the Democrats used a slogan implying that Wilson had kept the United States out war because:
- Soon after the election he asked for a declaration of war against Germany
- As far as relations between the races were concerned, during World War I the American government indicated that it did not intend to change the status quo. This implied that the government meant to:
- Maintain segregated military units
- In an attempt to deal with the problem of venereal disease among American soldiers, progressive social reformers suggested the use of prophylaxis. Prophylaxis is
- A preventative
- Many historians consider Woodrow Wilson to have been more naïve than European leaders at the end of World War I. Naïve implies that Wilson:
- Had a somewhat simplistic view of world affairs
- In his dealings with the Latin American countries, President Wilson essentially reversed the policies that Theodore Roosevelt had applied to those countries.
- False
- Throughout his administration, President Wilson steadfastly adhered to the principles of the New Freedom that he had enunciated during the campaign of 1912.
- False
- In January 1917, the German government attempted to get the United States to help negotiate a peace settlement with its enemies.
- False
- After the United States decided to enter World War I, most Americans enthusiastically supported the war effort.
- True
- During World War I, the Selective Service Act was applied without discrimination to blacks and whites alike.
- False
- Black American soldiers assigned to the French Army during World War I fought well.
- True
- With the exception of black women, World War I offered improved opportunities for most minority groups in the United States.
- False
- World War I negatively impacted the fight to achieve suffrage for women.
- False
- During the peace negotiations in Paris at the end of World War I, President Wilson convinced the European leaders to adhere to all the major provisions of his Fourteen Points.
- False
- World War I proved to be both a triumph and a tragedy for the American people because it provided greater opportunity for many disadvantaged groups, but in many cases, these opportunities proved only temporary.
- True
- For blacks like the Parker family, World War I provided:
- New opportunities in the north
- In the 1920s, the enthusiasm for social progress of the war years
- Evaporated
- The tensions and hostilities evident in the United States during the 1920s can be partially explained by:
- The fear among native-born Americans that foreigners were destroying the American way of life.
- The “red scare†during the 1920s refers to
- American fears of communist influence in the United States
- The strikes that occurred in the United States during the 1919 indicated that most American workers
- Wanted higher wages
- Public reaction to the series of strikes that occurred in the United States during 1919 tended to:
- Blame the communists for the unrest
- During the “red scare†of 1919, the Attorney General of the United States:
- Violated the rights of many Americans suspected of being communists
- During the Twenties, the Klu Klux Klan
- Stressed religious as well as racial nativism
- The outcome of the Sacco-Vanzetti case indicated:
- An unreasoned fear of foreigners and radicals
- During the 1920s, in the United States,:
- The American diet improved
- An important change in the lifestyle of the American people during the 1920s was brought about by:
- Improved bathroom facilities
- During the 1920s, business in the United States:
- Saw the emergence of a new kind of manager
- In economic terms, the period of the 1920s in the United States could be characterized:
- A second industrial revolution