Quiz on Unit 20

Question 1

Greatest individual hero of the Great War

Answer 1

Alvin York

Question 2

Wilson’s plan for settling war issues

Answer 2

Fourteen points

Question 3

British passenger liner sunk on May 7, 1915

Answer 3

Lusitania

Question 4

German practice that challenged U.S. neutrality

Answer 4

Submarine warefare

Question 5

Governor of New Jersey before becoming President

Answer 5

Woodrow Wilson

Question 6

Rejected by the Senate

Answer 6

Treaty of Versailles

Question 7

Long-running military aspect of the Great War

Answer 7

Trench warfare

Question 8

Dominated foreign policy in Wilson’s first term

Answer 8

Mexico

Question 9

American position when the Great War began

Answer 9

Neutrality

Question 10

Formed to oversee companies involved in interstate commerce

Answer 10

Federal Trade Commission

Question 11

Leader of the first American forces in Europe

Answer 11

John J. Pershing

Question 12

1912 Progressive Party presidential nominee

Answer 12

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 13

Enabled by the 16th Amendment, enacted by Congress

Answer 13

Personal income tax

Question 14

Secretary of State for most of Wilson’s first term

Answer 14

William jennings Bryan

Question 15

German overture to Mexico to fight against the U.S.

Answer 15

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 16

Banking system begun in 1913

Answer 16

Federal Reserve System

Question 17

Wilson’s main objective at Versailles

Answer 17

League of Nations

Question 18

Republican nominee for President in 1916

Answer 18

Charles Evans Hughes

Question 19

What Germany had to pay to victorious nations

Answer 19

Reparations

Question 20

His assassination led to the Great War

Answer 20

Archduke Francis Ferdinand