CH23

Question 1

1. How did William Jennings Bryan took interact with foreign nations?

Answer 1

Bryan took the approach of an anti-imperialist and was a proponent of world peace

Question 2

2. What was responsible for the coming of World War I?

Answer 2

Complex alliance systems birthed out of nationalistic interests in Europe

Question 3

3. What gave the Germans an early edge in World War I?

Answer 3

The U-boat

Question 4

4. What was put forth by Woodrow Wilson as a reason for the United States to stay out of World War I after the sinking of the Lusitania?

Answer 4

The 1916 presidential election was rapidly approaching

Question 5

5. What is described by your textbook as the final act that lead to U.S.
   involvement in World War I?

Answer 5

The Zimmerman Note asking Mexico to begin a war with the United States

Question 6

6. How did the United States military compare to the German military when the United States declared war on Germany during World War I?

Question 7

7. Who was instrumental in instigating daylight-saving time during World War I?

Answer 7

Harry Garfield

Question 8

8. What was the connection between Liberty Bonds and the American war effort in World War I?

Answer 8

Liberty Bonds sold to the American public and were used to help finance the war effort for the United States?

Question 9

9. What was the goal of the Committee of Public Information?

Answer 9

To encourage all Americans to make sacrifices during the war and, equally importantly, to hate all things German

Question 10

10. Who was sentence to ten years in prison for encouraging draft resistance to World War I?

Answer 10

Eugene Victor “Gene” Debs

Question 11

11. Why did labor union membership skyrocket during World War I?

Answer 11

Inflation skyrocketed in 1919

Question 12

12. What progressive measures were passed as a result of World War I?

Answer 12

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments

Question 13

13. What is significant about November 11, 1918?

Answer 13

Germany and the Allies declared an immediate armistice, thus bring the fighting to a stop and signaling the beginning of the peace process

Question 14

14. What officially brought World War I between the United States and
    Germany to an end?

Answer 14

The Knox-Porter Resolution

Question 15

15. What medical force impacted the war and the United States at large in 1918?

Answer 15

Most women were fired from their jobs after the war

Question 16

16. Who won the election of 1920 on a pledge of “a return to normalcy?”

Answer 16

Warren Harding