Chapter 22 World War I

Question 1

What was the critical cause of the Great War?

Answer 1

a complex and vulnerable system of secret Alliances between European nations

Question 2

What was the immediate cause for America’s direct involvement in the war?

Answer 2

Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 3

The American war effort reflected the concepts of what reform group?

Answer 3

progressives

Question 4

What did the eighteenth Amendment do?

Answer 4

gave Congress the authority to enact prohibition

Question 5

In 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution brought who to power in Russia?

Answer 5

radical Marxist

Question 6

Warren G. Harding’s idea of a “return to normalcy” repudiated whose ideas?

Answer 6

Woodrow Wilson

Question 7

What was the treaty signed by the US and Panama that established the Panama Canal Zone?

Answer 7

HayBunau-Varilla Treaty

Question 8

Who did the Gentlemen’s Agreement help integrate in schools?

Answer 8

Japanese students

Question 9

What is the name for the use of economic control in order to maintain foreign policy?

Answer 9

dollar diplomacy

Question 10

What conference helped end the Russo-Japan war?

Answer 10

Portsmouth Conference

Question 11

Who are the ABC powers who negotiated a deal for peace with Mexico?

Answer 11

Argentina, Brazil, and Chili

Question 12

What nations were originally in the Triple Alliance?

Answer 12

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 13

What nations were originally in the Triple Entente?

Answer 13

Britain, France, and Russia

Question 14

Who were “Hyphenated” Americans?

Answer 14

Americans who were of foreign birth or origin and displayed an allegiance to a foreign country

Question 15

What was the name of the promise made to the U.S. from Germany instituting the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare?

Answer 15

Sussex Pledge

Question 16

What was the name of the telegram to Mexico from Germany?

Answer 16

Zimmermann note

Question 17

What government agency used propaganda to convince American people to accept the war?

Answer 17

Committee of Public Information

Question 18

What key suffragist campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment?

Answer 18

Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 19

What did the espionage act do?(3)

Answer 19

it prohibited interference withmilitary operationsorrecruitment, prevented insubordination in the military, and prevented the support of U.S. enemies during wartime

Question 20

What did the Sedition Act do?

Answer 20

extend the espionage act to remove negative opinion against the government or bonds

Question 21

What Supreme Court Case involved the Espionage Act?

Answer 21

Schenck v. U.S.

Question 22

What was the main fear behind the red scare?

Answer 22

communism was going to take over the US

Question 23

What is the name of the American force that originally fights in Europe?

Answer 23

AEF, American Expeditionary Force

Question 24

What U.S. Infantry consisted of some of the most decorated African American fighters?

Answer 24

369th U.S. infantry

Question 25

What U.S. general led the AEF?

Answer 25

John J. Pershing

Question 26

What was the finalAlliedoffensive ofWorld War Ithat stretched along the entire Western Front

Answer 26

Meusse-Argonne Offensive

Question 27

Who were the irreconcilables?

Answer 27

the group of U.S. senators that refused to accept the treaty and the league of Nations