Chapter 19

Question 1

Nations that opposed Germany in World War 1

Answer 1

Allies

Question 2

US Secretary of State before World War 1

Answer 2

Williams Jennings Bryan

Question 3

Germany and its allies during World War 1

Answer 3

Central Powers

Question 4

Mexican dictator, 1876 to 1911, popular among American businessmen

Answer 4

Porfirio Diaz

Question 5

Passenger liner that the Germans sunk with Americans onboard

Answer 5

Lusitania

Question 6

America’s commitment to oppose Germany if submarine warfare continued

Answer 6

Sussex pledge

Question 7

“One of the most grotesque tyrannies in Mexican history “

Answer 7

Victoriano Huerta

Question 8

German lot to give part of the United States to Mexico

Answer 8

Zimmerman telegram

Question 9

Mexican bandit leader who raided a New Mexico border town

Answer 9

Pancho Villa

Question 10

German ruler who drew England into war

Answer 10

Wilhelm II

Question 11

Established the right to limit free speech during wartime

Answer 11

Schnek v. United States

Question 12

Peacetime association of nations that sought to prevent war

Answer 12

League of Nations

Question 13

“The world must be safe for democracy”

Answer 13

Woodrow Wilson

Question 14

Administrator of the Food Administration

Answer 14

Herbert Hoover

Question 15

Christian who won the Medal of Honor in World War 1

Answer 15

Alvin C. York

Question 16

April 1917

Answer 16

America. Enters WWI

Question 17

Where American troops launched and fought a costly offensive

Answer 17

Argonne

Question 18

Truce ending World War 1

Answer 18

Armistice

Question 19

American general who led opposition to the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 19

John J. Pershing

Question 20

Us senator who led opposition to the treaty of Versailles

Answer 20

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 21

Term referring to American soldiers in World War 1

Answer 21

Dough boys

Question 22

Clause in the peace treaty making Germany responsible for the war

Answer 22

War guilt clause

Question 23

Unreasonable economic demand Britain and France imposed Germany in treaty of Versailles

Answer 23

Payment of war reparation

Question 24

America’s “ace of aces”

Answer 24

Eddie Rickenbacker

Question 25

Made it a criminal offense to criticize the war effort in any way

Answer 25

Espionage and Sedation Act

Question 26

Woodrow Wilson ‘s objectives proposed freedom of the seas, open diplomacy, and self determination among the peoples of Central Europe and rejected reparation demands

Answer 26

Fourteen Points

Question 27

Where American troops fought to stop the German offensive

Answer 27

Chateau Thierry

Question 28

United States -Woodrow Wilson, Great Britain-David Lloyd George , Italy- Vittorio Orlando, France- George Clemenceau

Answer 28

Big four

Question 29

At first all men 21-30 years old were required to register, then it was changed to men 18-45 years old, for the military

Answer 29

Selective service act

Question 30

Heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, whose assassination by Serbian assassins sparked the beginning of WWI

Answer 30

Arch Duke Ferdinand

Question 31

One of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers

Answer 31

Treaty of Versailles

Question 32

Herbert Hoover’s methods of saving and producing food.

Answer 32

Hoovernizing

Question 33

On what exact date did the Germans sign in armistice ending World War I

Answer 33

November 11, 1918

Question 34

Which event sparked World War I

Answer 34

The murder of Arch Duke Ferdinand

Question 35

What was the purpose of Germany’s Schlieffen Plan

Answer 35

To defeat France quickly and then attack Russia

Question 36

Germany’s invasion of which nation brought Great Britain into World War I

Answer 36

Belgium

Question 37

What was the main provision of the Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 37

Banning criticism of the war effort

Question 38

What famous phrase came from the Schenk decision

Answer 38

“Clear and present danger”

Question 39

Why did the size of America’s army increase tenfold in less than two years of war

Answer 39

Because of the draft

Question 40

Which plank from the fourteen points was included in the treaty of Versailles

Answer 40

Self determination

Question 41

Explain the term “hoovernizing” as it related to the role that future president Herbert Hoover played in providing an adequate food supply for the American forces during World War I

Answer 41

Herbert Hoover was the administrator of the food administration. He gained national attention for methods of saving and producing food. Hoovernizing became associated with meatless Monday’s and wheatless Wednesdays “liberty gardens” were a thing too

Question 42

Explain the differences between the “irreconcilables” and the “reservationists” over the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 42

Irreconcilables opposed any entanglements in European politics. Reservationists would ratify the treaty but only with reservations attached that would limit U.S. Commitment