Chapter 21

Question 1

Which of the following statements regarding President Wilson in the years leading up to the Great War is accurate?

Answer 1

Wilson was a moralist and supporter of democracy who hoped to impose his standards on other nations.

Question 2

What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of the Great War?

Answer 2

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 3

During the Great War, which of the following countries made up the Central Powers?

Answer 3

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey (the Ottoman Empire)

Question 4

​During the Great War, which of the following countries made up the Allied Powers?

Answer 4

France, Great Britain, and Russia

Question 5

Which of the following statements was true of the Great War?

Answer 5

Mechanized weaponry made the mass killing and destruction of the war possible.

Question 6

Trench warfare was

Answer 6

​a method that rewarded the side who lasted the longest.

Question 7

The British vessel the Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat in __________; the United States entered the Great War officially in __________.

Answer 7

1915; 1917

Question 8

What was the purpose of the Sussex Pledge?

Answer 8

Placing limits on submarine warfare

Question 9

Wilson’s platform in running for reelection in 1916 included

Answer 9

his dismissal of isolationism as now outdated.

Question 10

Early in the war, Germany believed that the United States

Answer 10

lacked instruments of modern warfare.

Question 11

In the Zimmerman telegram, __________ urged __________ to invade the United States.

Answer 11

Germany; Mexico

Question 12

Which of the following statements regarding the War Industries Board is correct?

Answer 12

It had the power to order the construction of new factories.

Question 13

The stated purpose of the Food Administration during the Great War was to

Answer 13

reduce civilian food consumption.

Question 14

During the Great War, why was the sale of Liberty bonds significant

Answer 14

It guaranteed a fixed rate of return to fund the war, with purchasers commonly viewed as patriotic.

Question 15

What was the Wilson administration’s stance on the role of women as the war grew in scope?

Answer 15

It recruited women to take on jobs previously held by mainly men.

Question 16

The “Great Migration” refers to

Answer 16

African Americans moving from the South to the North during the war.

Question 17

During the Great War, African American men fought

Answer 17

in racially segregated units.

Question 18

As a result of the economic expansion during the Great War, __________ moved to __________ in cities like Los Angeles and Houston.

Answer 18

Latinos; barrios

Question 19

Which of the following statements accurately describes changes in the lives of Mexican Americans during World War I?

Answer 19

The war allowed many Mexican farmworkers to find better jobs in industrial centers.

Question 20

​During the Great War, the Espionage and Sedition Acts

Answer 20

stifled free speech by forbidding public criticism of politicians and war policies

Question 21

Who was the last tsar to rule in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 21

Nicholas II

Question 22

​__________ led the __________, a group of determined Communist revolutionaries in Russia in 1917.

Answer 22

Vladimir Lenin; Bolshevik

Question 23

With the signing of the Treaty of __________, Russia ended its involvement in the Great War

Answer 23

Peter’s burg

Question 24

Which of the following did Wilson’s Fourteen Points for post–Great War peace include?

Answer 24

Open conduct of diplomacy

Question 25

Which of the following statement’s regarding President Wilson’s Fourteen Points is correct?

Answer 25

The Fourteen Points called for the “self-determination” of previously dominated groups.

Question 26

​__________ are the payment of money for war damages.

Answer 26

Reparations

Question 27

Which of the following countries had the highest casualties during the Great War?

Answer 27

Germany

Question 28

Which of the following statements regarding Woodrow Wilson’s involvement in negotiating an end to the Great War is correct?

Answer 28

Wilson was not very popular among Republican congressmen.

Question 29

choose __________ to join the American delegation to the peace negotiations.

Answer 29

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 30

The so-called Big Four at the peace negotiations to end the Great War included the leader of

Answer 30

Italy

Question 31

President Wilson believed that the keystone to ensuring lasting world peace was

Answer 31

the League of Nations.

Question 32

Which of the following was the independent country the Big Four created during the peace negotiations?

Answer 32

Yugoslavia

Question 33

​__________ and __________ wanted Germany to pay for the entire financial cost of the war.

Answer 33

Great Britain; France

Question 34

The __________ voted to reject the Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson had worked so hard on.

Answer 34

​U.S. Senate

Question 35

​Beginning in 1918, __________ killed millions of people worldwide and became a pandemic in the United States.

Answer 35

the Spanish flu

Question 36

The __________ rewarded women who had worked so hard during the Great War with the right to vote.

Answer 36

Nineteenth Amendment

Question 37

Which of the following statements about women’s suffrage in 1920 is accurate?

Answer 37

Recently granted the right to vote, women comprised 40 percent of the electorate in that year’s presidential election.

Question 38

As a result of __________ in 1919, __________ of the American wage workforce was inclined to strike.

Answer 38

rising consumer prices; more

Question 39

Which of the following statements about African American life in the aftermath of the Great War is accurate?

Answer 39

Whites caused a wave of race riots, in part out of resentment of the success some African Americans had after the war.

Question 40

​Fears of revolution were so widespread in postwar America that the U.S. attorney general created a government division to collect information on radicals headed by

Answer 40

​J. Edgar Hoover.

Question 41

Fear of foreign terrorists and radicalism led to __________ at the end of the 1910s.

Answer 41

the First Red Scare

Question 42

Which of the following statements regarding America in the immediate aftermath of the Great War is accurate?

Answer 42

Americans experienced a postwar crisis.

Question 43

Which of the following was an effect of World War I?

Answer 43

Most Germans and Austrians felt they were victims of a harsh peace.