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