APUSH Chapter 30

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President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when
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they announced that they would wage unrestricted sub warfare in the Atlantic
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The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement between
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Germany and Mexico
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The United States declared war on Germany
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after German U-Boats sank 4 unarmed American merchant vessels
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President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by
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pledging to make the war "a war to end all wars" and to make the world safe for democracy
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President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an opportunity for the United States to
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to shape a new international order based on the ideals of democracy
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the following was among Wilson's Fourteen Points upon which he based America's idealistic foreign policy in World War I?
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reduction of armaments, abolition of secret treaties, a new international organization to guarantee collective security, and the principle of national self-determination for subject peoples.
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The major problem for George Creel and his Committee on Public Information was that
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he oversold Wilson's ideals and led the world to expect too much
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Match each civilian administrator below with the World War I mobilization agency that he directed. A. George Creel B. Herbert Hoover C. Bernard Baruch D. William Howard Taft 1. War Industries Board 2. Committee on Public Information 3. Food Administration 4. National War Labor Board
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A:2, B:3, C:1, D:4
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When the United States entered World War I, it was
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not ready for its leap into global war
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During World I, civil liberties in America were
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denied to many, especially those suspected of disloyalty
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Two constitutional amendments adopted in part because of wartime influences were the Eighteenth, which dealt with _______________, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was _______________.
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prohibition; woman suffrage
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As a result of their work supporting the war effort, women
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finally received the right to vote
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During World War I, the government's treatment of labor could be best described as
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fair..
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The two groups who suffered most from the violaton of civil liberties during World War I were
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German Americans and social radicals.
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Grievances of labor during and shortly after World War I include all of the following
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the inability to gain the right to organize, war spawned inflation, and violence against workers by employers
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The 1919 steel strike resulted in
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The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in
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The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resulted in
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racial violence in the North
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Most wartime mobilization agencies relied on _______________ to prepare the economy for war.
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voluntary compliance
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Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from
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loans
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In an effort to make economic mobilization more efficient during World War I, the federal government took over and operated
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the railroads
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The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort
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forcing some people to buy war bonds, having "meatless and wheatless" days, and seizing enemy merchant vessels trapped in American harbors
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The World War I military draft
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When the United States entered the war in 1917, most Americans did not believe that
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it would be necessary to send a large American army to Europe
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Those who protested conscription during World War I did so because
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hey disliked the idea of compelling a person to serve
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During World War I, American troops fought in all of the following countries
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Russia, Belgium and Italy
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The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged were
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St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
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Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1918 resulted in
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the release of thousands of German troops for deployment on the front in France
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The supreme military commander of American forces during World War I was
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General John J. Pershing.
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The Second Battle of the Marne was significant because it
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marked the beginning of a German withdrawal that was never reversed
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As a condition of ending World War I, Woodrow Wilson demanded that
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the German Kaiser be forced from power
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The United States' main contributions to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following
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foodstuffs, oil, munitions, and morale
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The Germans were heavily demoralized by
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the US troop reserves
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The chief difference between Woodrow Wilson and the parliamentary statesmen at the Paris peace table was that Wilson
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did not command a legislative majority at home
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Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to
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establish the League of Nations
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At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following goals
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preventing a seizure of territory by the victors, a world parliament of nations to provide collective security, national self-determination for smaller European nations, free trade and freedom of the seas. except:an end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia.
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Opposition to the League of Nations by many United States Senators during the Paris Peace Conference
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gave the Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position
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After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson
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wilson was condemned by disillusioned liberals and frustrated imperialists
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In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was
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after the Treaty of Versailles had been signed
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The initial Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles was to
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delay and amend the treaty.
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Senate opponents of the League of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles argued that it
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robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers.
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In Congress, the most reliable support for Wilson's position on the League of Nations came from
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democrats
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The Senate likely would have accepted American participation in the League of Nations if Wilson had
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been willing to compromise with the League opponents in Congress
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Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the Treaty of Versailles?
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isolationists
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Woodrow Wilson's call for a "solemn referendum" in 1920 referred to
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his attempt to use the presidential election of 1920 to gain support for the Treaty of Versailles but it became a death sentence for the League of Nations
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Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding's 1920 presidential victory into a
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death sentence for the League.
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The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it
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did not include the US