2/21/2013

Question 1

took over the railway industry

Answer 1

Railroad Administration

Question 2

headed by George Creel. it used propaganda to mobilize public opinion in support for the war

Answer 2

Committee on Public Information

Question 3

headed the CPI (committee on Public Information)

Answer 3

George Creel

Question 4

limits First Amendment rights,
forbade “false statements” designed to impede the draft or promote military insubordination,
and it banned from the mails materials considered treasonous.

Answer 4

Espionage Act

Question 5

made it unlawful to obstruct the sale of war bonds and to use “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive” language to describe the government, the Constitution, the flag, or the military uniform

Answer 5

Sedition Act

Question 6

aimed to protect the basic civil liberties of all Americans.

Answer 6

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)-

Question 7

A period of general fear of communism

Answer 7

“Red Scare”

Question 8

formed by the Soviet leadership to export revolution worldwide

Answer 8

Communist International

Question 9

Two defectors from the Socialist Party, _______ and _________
founded the Communist Labor Party in 1919.

Answer 9

John Reed & Benjamin Gitlow

Question 10

Two defectors from the Socialist Party, _______. and ______ founded the Communist Labor Party in 1919.

Answer 10

Benjamin Gitlow & John Reed

Question 11

Organized in May 1919 to lobby for veterans’ benefits, also fueled the red scare

Answer 11

American Legion

Question 12

Wilson’s attorney general,
insisted that Americans think alike. A Progressive reformer, Quaker, and ambitious politician,
he appointed Hoover to head the Radical Division of the Department of Justice

Answer 12

A Mitchell Palmer

Question 13

headed the Radical Division of the Department of Justice,

broke into meeting halls and homes without search warrants, jailing four thousand people without counsel.

Answer 13

J. Edgar Hoover

Question 14

• book written by Griffith

fed prejudice with its celebration of the Klan and its demeaning depiction of blacks.

Answer 14

Birth of a Nation

Question 15

Georges Clemenceau of France
David Lloyd George of Britain
Vittorio Orlando of Italy
president Wilson

Answer 15

“The Big Four”-

Question 16

punishes Germany and launches the League of Nations.

Answer 16

Paris Peace Conference

Question 17

the centerpiece of Wilsons plans for the postwar world.

Answer 17

League of Nations

Question 18

led the Senate opposition.
he packed the Foreign Relations Committee with critics and introduced several reservations to the treaty, most importantly that Congress had to approve any obligation under Article 10.

Answer 18

Henry Cabot Lodge