Chapter 21 Flashcards
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that
the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations to preserve stability
The United States originally planned for its inter-ocean canal to go through the country of
Nicaragua
President Teddy Roosevelt secured the Canal Zone in Panama by
engineering a Panamanian revolt against Colombia
The term “Dollar Diplomacy” refers to the
policy of using investment to further U.S. economic interests in Latin America
In Europe, World War I had all of the following consequences except
it brought fifty years of peace to the continent
Before World War I, the Triple Alliance consisted of
Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy
The immediate cause of World War I was
the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke by a Serbian nationalist
Although the United States proclaimed neutrality at the start of World War I, Americans were not completely impartial because
exaggerated reports circulated about German atrocities in Belgium
Many Americans became outraged at Germany after it began to
engage in submarine warfare
The German government believed that the sinking of the Lusitania was a legitimate act because the ship was
carrying munitions to Great Britain
In 1915, when the Germans began to use submarine warfare to “sink on sight” vessels carrying supplies to Britain, President Wilson responded by
angrily demanding that Germany promise not to attack non-military ships and reaffirm a commitment to neutral rights
In 1916, the German Navy temporarily suspended submarine warfare against U.S. ships because of
the fear that it would lead to intervention by the United States
President Wilson’s actions during the first two years of the war showed that he was
trying not to upset either the peace faction or the war faction
The presidential election of 1916 was one of the closest in American history. All of the following factors helped Wilson win re-election except
the Republican party split between pro-war Theodore Roosevelt and pacifist Charles Evans Hughes
The Zimmermann telegram stirred up anti-German sentiment in the United States because it revealed German plans to
return to Mexico her lost provinces in the American Southwest in exchange for a Mexican declaration of war on the United States
After entering World War I, the first actions of the U.S. military involved
aiding the British Navy in its efforts to end the submarine threat to Allied shipping
Although Americans believed that only naval assistance would be required of the United States, the situation changed when
Russia pulled out of the war, allowing a large number of German troops to be moved to the Western Front
The majority of the men who served in the American armed forces during World War I
were drafted
The group that was allowed to enlist in the armed forces for the first time during World War I was
women
During World War I, the status of African-Americans changed in all of the following ways except
the patriotism of wartime temporarily diminished the racism that usually afflicted them
The combat role of American troops in World War I
involved over six months of hard fighting to stop the final German offensives of the war
In the last months of World War I, the Allies launched a 200-mile attack against the Germans in the Battle of
the Argonne Forest
All of the following were new technologies in World War I except
rifled artillery
The nation which suffered the lowest number of deaths in World War I combat was
United States
The U.S. government used all of the following methods to finance the war effort except
a national sales tax
The war boards that ran the economy during World War I finally organized it on the basis of
economic function—railroads, fuel, etc.
The war economy exhibited all of the following characteristics except
the head of the War Industries Board functioned as an all-powerful czar of American industry
Before 1917, the peace movement in the United States included many members of all the following groups except
African Americans
To unite public opinion behind the war effort, the Committee on Public Information used all of the following methods except
banning the distribution of foreign journals
In response to the government’s calls for unity, many Americans
started vigilante groups to punish citizens reported to be disloyal
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points were an expression of
internationalism
The Fourteen Points included
self-determination for all peoples
The Fourteen Points included all of the following provisions except
the rights of the individual
The Fourteen Points were flawed by their failure to address sufficiently
the methods of implementing them
The Fourteen Points served as a counter message to the
the new Bolshevik government in Russia
The Big Four included all the following except
Lenin of Russia
Effects of the reparations payment after World War I included
Germany’s inability to make the full reparations payment
The main factor that doomed the Treaty of Versailles in the U.S. Senate was
President Wilson’s refusal to compromise
During Wilson’s national tour to promote the Peace Treaty
he suffered severe headaches that signaled an impending stroke
The labor unrest that followed the end of the war had all of the following causes except
union power had increased significantly during the war
Black workers who migrated north to find jobs
found hostility in the North as bad as in the South
Upon returning home from the war, black veterans
became disillusioned when they received no significant opportunities for advancement
The urban riots of the summer of 1919 differed from previous such occurrences in that
they were the first based solely on racial tension
The Red Scare resulted in all of the following actions except
the federal government arrested thousands for possession of explosives and weapons
The end of the progressive era occurred because
uncertainty and disillusionment made stability more attractive than idealism
The “Roosevelt Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine
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“America’s greatest need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; . . . not surgery; but serenity.” The speaker of this quotation is
Herbert Hoover
Which of the following principles are associated with the foreign policy of Wilsonianism?I. Diplomatic negotiations between nations should be subject to public scrutiny.Chapter 21 247
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President Wilson is often criticized for which of the following in his handling of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations?
He did not involve prominent Republicans in the negotiations at Versailles.
All of the following were significant sources of tension in the postwar period between 1919 and 1921
demonstrations by disgruntled veterans
President Wilson responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by
demanding that Germany commit to respecting neutral rights
The majority of the funds used to support the American war effort in World War I were raised through which of the following means?
the sale of war bonds
Which of the following best characterizes the effect of World War I on the relationship between government and business?
Business and government worked closely together in a mutually beneficial way
The Zimmerman Telegram was designed to
entice Mexico to ally with Germany against the United States
Which of the following is not correctly matched with the wartime agency listed below?
National War Labor Board—A. Mitchell Palmer
During the 1916 presidential campaign, Wilson benefited heavily from
the popular belief that he would keep the nation out of war
The most active element of the peace movement during World War I was
women’s groups
