World War 1 Test

Question 1

The spark that ignited WW1 was

Answer 1

The assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne by a Serb nationalist.

Question 2

Which of the following was NOT a cause of WW1?

Answer 2

The Russian Revolution

Question 3

Which of the following was a member of the Central Powers?

Answer 3

Germany

Question 4

Some critics maintained that the United States had no right to be outraged over the sinking of the Lusitania because

Answer 4

All of the above?

Question 5

In the Sussex pledge

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Germany promised to cease sinking passenger ships without warning or care for the passengers.

Question 6

The same year (1917) that the United States entered the Great War on the Allied side, which Allied power dropped out of the war?

Answer 6

Russia

Question 7

In the Zimmerman note

Answer 7

the Germans promised to restore to Mexico the land it lost in the Mexican-American War in return for a military alliance with Germany.

Question 8

Which of the following does this excerpt support as the primary cause of the U.S. declaration of war in April 1917?

Answer 8

Germany’s violations of U.S. neutral rights?

Question 9

When the Zimmerman message was made public, most people in the United States

Answer 9

expressed nationalist anger against Germany

Question 10

In the U.S. Supreme Court case “Schenck v. United States,” the Court ruled that

Answer 10

the Espionage Act of 1917 was constitutional

Question 11

In “Schenck v. United States” (1919), the Supreme Court ruled that freedom of speech could be revoked if

Answer 11

a clear and present danger to the nation exists.

Question 12

What does the author imply by the phrase, “not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war”?

Answer 12

Citizens do not lose their freedom of speech during war

Question 13

Which of the following conflicts raised the most similar concerns about the violation of civil rights as did World War 1?

Answer 13

The American Civil War?

Question 14

During World War 1, the government propaganda, such as poster shown above, most likely contributed to which of the following?

Answer 14

Increased fear of foreigners and immigrants

Question 15

During the war, a government agency named the Committee of Public Information, headed by George Creel, was

Answer 15

the producer of a vast number of posters, pamphlets, and films

Question 16

The National War Labor Board

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pressed employers to grant concessions to labor in the form of higher wages and a shorter workday

Question 17

Which of the following was NOT one of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

Answer 17

The establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

Question 18

The French were opposed to many of Wilson’s Fourteen Points because

Answer 18

the Fourteen Points disagreed fundamentally with what the French felt should be contained in the Treaty of Versailles

Question 19

Those American politician leaders who were militant isolationists and therefore opposed to the League of Nations were referred to as

Answer 19

irreconcilables

Question 20

Which of the following was a significant result of World War 1?

Answer 20

An increase in the International influence of the United States

Question 21

Supporters of the League of Nations saw it as a means to

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provide stability and security to the post-war world

Question 22

Senator Lodge and his supporters opposed the League of Nations because they believed that the League would

Answer 22

reduce American sovereignty