Chapter 19 Flashcards
Where did the Americans shatter German defenses and open a hole in their line with the most massive attack in American history?
a) Argonne Forest
b) St Mihiel
c) Paris
d) Cantigny
a) Argonne Forest
Perhaps the most successful government agency during this time was the Food Administration run by -
a) Bernard Baruch
b) George Creel
c) Herbert Hoover
d) William Howard Taft
c) Herbert Hoover
President Wilson used the failure of the Mexicans to apologize for arresting American sailors as an opportunity to overthrow the Mexican leader -
a) Pancho Villa
b) Porfirio Diaz
c) Francisco Madero
d) Victoriano Huerta
d) Victoriano Huerta
According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service would be determined by -
a) local draft boards
b) military headquarters in Washington, D.C.
c) age, drafting 21 year old first and 30 year olds last
d) lottery
d) lottery
The Central Powers included -
a) Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans
b) Germany, Austria - Hungary and Russia
c) Britain, France and Russia
d) Britain, France and the United States
a) Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottomans
To conserve energy during World War I, the Fuel Administration introduced -
a) longer workdays
b) daylight savings time
c) Hooverizing
d) corn-based fuels
b) daylight savings time
The Triple Entente (later called the Allies) included -
a) Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy
b) Germany, Turkey and Russia
c) Britain, France and Russia
d) Britain, France and the US
c) Britain, France and Russia
On November 11, 1918, the fighting stopped and the war ended because Germany had finally signed a/an -
a) armistice
b) peace treaty
c) reparation
d) acknowledgement of guilt
a) armistice
One reason for the tension between the European powers was their intense pride in their homelands called-
a) nationalism
b) socialism
c) imperialism
d) progressivism
a) nationalism
In the case Schenck v the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that -
a) immigrants from countries at war with the United States could be excluded from positions of power
b) freedom of speech could be curbed in wartime
c) the right to bear arms could be limited for immigrants
d) the Sedition Act was unconstitutional
b) freedom of speech could be curbed in wartime
Since Germany did not want to strengthen the Allies by drawing the United States into war, it agreed with certain conditions to sink no more merchant ships in a promise called the -
a) Zimmermann telegram
b) Peace Pledge
c) Sussex Pledge
d) U-boat Pledge
c) Sussex Pledge
A major problem in Germany’s plan to invade France was that its forces first had to advance through neutral -
a) Amsterdam
b) Belgium
c) Switzerland
d) Luxembourg
b) Belgium
President Wilson called for the creation of a “general association of nations” known as the -
a) United Nations
b) League of Nations
c) Allies
d) Central Powers
b) League of Nations
The Great Migration during World War I was a flow of -
a) European immigrants fleeing to the US to escape the war in Europe
b) French refugees fleeing to Britain ahead of the German onslaught
c) Mexicans fleeing tot the American Southwest to escape political turmoil
d) African Americans moving form the South to Northern cities
d) African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities
Russia removed itself form the war by signing the Treaty of -
a) Paris
b) Brest Litovsk
c) Versailles
d) Ghent
b) Brest Litovsk
In World War I, airplanes were first used to -
a) transport troops to the front
b) observe enemy activities
c) bomb enemy trenches
d) bring supplies to the troops
b) observe enemy activities
Information used to affect public opinion; information designed to influence opinion
propaganda
The open area between trench lines was called
no man’s land
President Wilson’s plan for peace was known as the _____Points and was based on “the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities.”
Fourteen
German submarines that attacked ships bound for Britain were called -
u-boats
The Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, and Slovenes all lived in a region in southeastern Europe called the _______
Balkans
American soldiers during World War I were nicknamed _
doughboys
Americans made loans to the government through the purchase of ____
Victory or Liberty Bonds
Many Mexican Americans who migrated north to take factory jobs during World War I settled in their own separate neighborhoods called ______
barrios
The right of a people to choose their won form of government is called ________
self - determination
Three new weapons used in WWI were _____, ______ and _________.
tanks, poison gas and flame throwers
The line of trenches form the border of Switzerland to the North Sea was called ________
Western Front
Americans were encouraged to plant _______ to conserve food.
Victory gardens
American Air Ace
Eddie Rickenbacker
the hero of Verdun
Henri Petain
Mexican guerrilla leader who conducted raids into the US; led a group of Mexican guerrillas that burned Columbus, New Mexico
Pancho Villa
headed the American Expeditionary Force
John Pershing
German general who fought at Tannenburg
Paul Hindenburg
supreme commander of the Allied forces
Marshall Ferdinand Foch
the Red Baron, a German air ace
Frederic von Richthoven
stockbroker who led the War Industries Board
Barnard Baruch
Serbian nationalist responsible for assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip
Bolshevik leader whose followers overthrew the Russian Czar
Vladimir Lenin
Describe trench warfare?
They would throw bombs into the other trenches by running through no mans land. Then one side would try to go around and outflank the other side by digging another one farther down but then the enemy would get the same idea until they eventually stopped. Then they started using cannons
Verdun
Petain
What was the Schlieffen Plan? Why did it fail?
answer later
Where were the reasons for America’s entry into WWI?
To cut off supplies going to Britain, the Germans announced in 1914 that their u-boats would sink without warning any ship found in the waters around Britain. This announcement outraged the US because it violated an international treaty requiring military vessels to reveal their intentions to merchant ships and provide for the safety of the people aboard before sinking the ships. In implementing their policy, the Germans sank the British passenger liner Lusitania in the war zone, killing 1,200, including 128 Americans. In 1916 a U-boat torpedoed the French passenger ship Sussex, injuring several Americans on board. In 1917 British intelligence intercepted a telegram from Arthur Zimmermann, a German official. It proposed to offer the Mexican government its “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona” if Mexico sided with Germany in the event that the US entered the war. Furious, many Americans now concluded war with Germany was necessary.
led the American Expeditionary Force; commander of the American troops; also FAILED to capture Pancho Villa
General John J. Pershing
the last Czar of Russia
Nicholas II
leader of Mexico who was overthrown by Huerta
Porfirio Dias
British representative to the Paris Peace Conference
David Lloyd-George
Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by the -
a) Committee on Public Information
b) Sedition Act
c) Red Scare
d) Palmer raids
b) Sedition Act
An attempt was made to involve Mexico in WWI with the-
a) Zimmermann telegram
b) Peace Pledge
c) Sussex Pledge
d) U-Boat Pledge
a) Zimmermann telegram
Who overthrew the Russian government in November of 1917 and established a Communist government there?
a) Czar Nicholas II
b) Georges Clemenceau
c) Vittorio Orlando
d) Vladimir Lenin
d) Vladimir Lenin
On November 11, 1918, the fighting stopped and the war ended because Germany had finally signed an armistice or -
a) cease-fire
b) peace treaty
c) reparation
d) acknowledgement of guit
a) cease-fire
Who walked off the job in Seattle in what was the first strike after WWI?
a) shipyard workers
b) the police force
c) hospital workers
d) steel workers
a) shipyard workers
The French representative at the Paris Peace Conference was -
a) Foch
b) Clemenceau
c) Lloyd-George
d) Pertain
b) Clemenceau
The right of a people to decide upon their form of government is -
a) democracy
b) republicanism
c) anarchy
d) self-determination
d) self-determination
The glorification of was is called -
a) militarism
b) nationalism
c) mobilization
d) communism
a) militarism
Russia removed itself form the war by signing the Treaty of -
a) Paris
b) Versailles
c) Tannenberg
d) Brest Litovsk
d) Brest Litovsk
The last major German offensive was stopped at the bottle of -
a) Meuse
b) the Marne
c) the Argonne Forest
d) the Rhineland
c) the Argonne Forest
The _____ was a nation wide panic that arose from the fear that Communists might seize power in the US.
Red Scare
The assassin of the Austrian Archduke was a member of an organization called the ________
Black Hand
Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term _________, as a measure by which free speech could be curbed.
clear and present danger
Mitchell Palmer was instrumental in establishing a new division of the Justice Department that evolved into the _______
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
The sinking of the _______ was one of the reasons for America’s entry into WWI.
Lusitania
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria were called
Central Powers
What country made an offer to the Mexican government proposing that Mexico ally itself with them if the US entered the European war?
a) Bulgaria
b) France
c) Germany
d) Russia
c) Germany
made any public expression of opposition to the war illegal
Sedition Act of 1918
created to coordinate the production of war materials
War Industries Board
African American unit that won the French decoration, Croix de Guerre, for gallantry
369th Infantry
used to raise money to cover the costs of war
Liberty Bonds and Victory Bonds
when many African Americans left the South to settle in Northern cities
Great Migration
The fear of spies and emphasis on patriotism quickly led to the mistreatment of persecution of
a) Irish Americans
b) African Americans
c) Mexican Americans
d) German Americans
d) German Americans
Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress, with Wilson’s support, created a new system of conscription called
a) selective service
b) local draft boards
c) lotteries
d) selective volunteers
a) selective service
Early in 1917, what division of the military authorized the enlistment of women to meet its clerical needs?
a) Army
b) Marines
c) Air Force
d) Navy
d) Navy
a group of Communists
Bolsheviks
payments for war damages
reparations
the space between opposing trenches
“no-man’s land”
World War I resulted in the dissolution of four empires: the Austro-Hugarian Empire, the Russian Empire, the German Empire and the
a) Chinese Empire
b) Slavic Empire
c) Yugoslavian Empire
d) Ottoman Empire
d) Ottoman Empire
Where did the Americans shatter German defenses and open a hole in their line with the most massive attack in American History -
a) Meuse-Argonne
b) St Mihiel
c) Paris
d) Cantigny
a) Meuse-Argonne
involves all workers living in a certain location, not just workers in a particular industry
general strike
formed by the Soviet Union to coordinate the activities of Communist parties in other countries
Communist International
cost of food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials that people need to survive
cost of living
special division within the Justice Department that eventually became the Federal Bureau of Investigation
General Intelligence Division
expelled from the country
deported
One of the largest strikes in American history began when steel workers went on strike for recognition of their union, higher pay, and
a) medical benefits
b) cost of living raises
c) shorter hours
d) safer working conditions
c) shorter hours
As strikes erupted across the US in 1919, the fear that Communists, or “reds” as they were called, might seize power led to a nationwide panic known as the -
a) Red Scare
b) Red nativism
c) Red Socialism
d) Communist Scare
a) Red Scare
Americans often linked radicalism with -
a) nativism
b) progressivism
c) reform programs
d) immigrants
d) immigrants
Who walked off the job in Boston in what was perhaps the most famous strike of 1919?
a) shipyard workers
b) the police force
c) hospital workers
d) stell workers
b) the police force
In addition to the soldiers returning from Europe who needed to find employment, many African Americans who had moved North were competing for jobs and housing, which resulted in -
a) new zoning laws
b) race riots
c) new industries
d) cooperation among races
b) race riots
promise not to sink more merchant ships without warning
Sussex Pledge
gave patriotic speeches urging support of war effort
Four-Minute Men
Serbian nationalist group behind the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Black Hand
method of loaning money to the government to pay for war
Liberty Bonds
spying to acquire government secrets
espionage
Bolshevik leader
Vladimir Lenin
Woodrow Wilson sent marines into several Latin American countries to -
a) protect the southwestern border of the US from attack
b) preserve trading rights for American companies in Latin America
c) protect US citizens living in Latin American when civil wars broke out there
d) set up stable democratic government in Latin America
d) set up stable democratic government in Latin America
President Wilson’s invasion of Veracruz was -
a) opposed in Europe and Latin America
b) support by Britain and Germany
c) applauded by Europeans
d) welcomed by latin Americans
a) opposed in Europe and Latin America
The event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I was -
a) the assassination of the archduke of Germany
b) the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary
c) the German invasion of Belgium
d) the German invasion of Russia
b) the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary
World War I was the first war in which -
a) African American soldiers were not segregated from the white soldiers
b) women officially served in the armed forces
c) the government officially imposed conscription
d) the military drafted African American men
b) women officially served in the armed forces
Which of the following innovations best completes the diagram.
What Cause (?) led to Effect: Trench Warfare
a) tanks
b) airplanes
c) rapid-fire machine guns
d) poison gas
c) rapid fire machine guns
The “Big Four” who attended the peace conference at the end of World War I were the leaders from the United States, Britain, France and -
a) Russia
b) Germany
c) Italy
d) Austria-Hungary
c) Italy
Woodrow Wilson used Mexico’s refusal to apologize for arresting American sailors in tampico as an excuse to -
a) arrest Mexican sailors currently in US ports
b) deport Mexican citizens in the US back to Mexico
c) attempt to overthrow the Mexican government
d) conduct a series of raids across the border into Mexico
c) attempt to overthrow the Mexican government
The Triple Alliance included -
a) Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
b) Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia
c) Britain, France and Russia
d) Britain, France and the US
d) Britain, France and the US
In 1908 the Serbs became furious when -
a) the Ottoman Empire refused them independence
b) Austria-Hungary refused them independence
c) a Slav assassinated their leader
d) Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia
d) Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia
According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would -
a) send troops to support the Huerta government
b) prevent the US from taking control of Mexico
c) help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
d) help Mexico take control of Central America
c) help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona
According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service would be determined by -
a) local draft bonds
b) military headquarters in Washington, DC
c) age, drafting 21 year old first and 30 year olds last
d) lottery
d) lottery
During World War I, Americans were encouraged to “Hooverize” by -
a) observing Wheatless Mondays
b) observing Heatless Mondays
c) buying Liberty Bonds
d) buying only products necessary to live
a) observing Wheatless Mondays
“Selling” the war to the American people was the task of -
a) J Edgar Hoover
b) the War Propaganda Board
c) the War Industries Board
d) the Committee on Public Information
d) the Committee on Public Information (check this answer)
Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by -
a) the committee on Public Information
b) the Espionage and Sedition Acts
c) the Red scare
d) the Palmer raids
b) the Espionage and Sedition Acts
The organization that eventually became the Federal Bureau of Investigation was originally formed to
a) uncover German spies during World War I
b) spread propaganda within the US in support of the war
c) infiltrate unions to head off strikes
d) raid radical headquarters looking for evidence of a Communist conspiracy
d) raid radical headquarters looking for evidence of a Communist conspiracy
conscription system created during Wilson’s administration
Selective service
After the Bolsheviks took power, Russia -
a) declared war on Austria-Hungary
b) joined the Allies
c) began to win the war on the eastern front
d) pulled out of the war
d) pulled out of the war
battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns
dogfights
ORIGINAL position of the United States in World War I
neutrality
organization proposed to preserve peace and prevent future wars
League of Nations
No American troop ships were sunk on their way to Europe during World War I, largely due to -
a) radar
b) steel-hulled ships
c) anti-submarine mines
d) the convoy system
d) the convoy system
The first declaration of war in World War I came after -
a) the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
b) Russia signed a treaty to support Austria
c) Germany invaded Belgium
d) Germany invaded Russia
a) the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
