Chapter 20 Quiz

. Coming of age in the Progressive Era before World War I, Walter Lippmann, a co-founder of the New Republic, believed that

though not preferable, war was a sometimes a necessary evil for solving the world's problems.

most problems could be solved without government intervention.

World War I would help bring a new stability to old European governments.

reason and science could allow his generation to have a profound impact on the world.

. Woodrow Wilson's combinations of idealism and self-interest and humanitarianism and force meant that he

expressed support for Taft's policies of dollar diplomacy.

refused to intervene militarily in foreign countries.

secretly hoped for an excuse for the United States to enter World War I.

had a contradictory foreign policy.

. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes American military intervention in Mexico in 1914?

Carranza welcomed the American troops.

Carranza's forces attacked the Americans.

Wilson had nothing to show for three years of intervention.

The Americans occupied Mexico City.

. Woodrow Wilson wished to keep the United States neutral at the outbreak of World War I because

he secretly admired German culture and the German university system.

he wanted to arbitrate between the combatants and influence the settlement of the war.

he opposed French Catholicism.

he was a pacifist who believed that the United States should never go to war.

. All of the following refer to the sinking of the Lusitania except

Wilson's advisers were split on a response to the attack.

Americans had been warned by Germany that attacks on passenger liners could occur in the "war zone."

Wilson demanded that Germany stop attacking ships without warning.

It led to immediate US intervention.

. Which of the following is not true of American pre-war involvement?

By 1917, the United State economy was already deeply involved in the war.

Wilson believed that a German victory would harm American interests.

Many Irish Americans sided with Germany.

US Marines were already on the ground in Europe, helping the British.

. All of the following were among the Central powers except

Germany.

Austria-Hungary.

Russia.

Turkey.

. The presidential election of 1916

was a very narrow victory for Wilson.

had women suffragists campaigning against Wilson.

freed Wilson to pursue a more vigorous foreign policy.

All of the above

. All of the following refer to wartime propaganda after 1917 except

The government made films, advertisements, and billboards to influence American opinion.

The government warned Americans that they were in the Great War to save their own homes from potential invasion by the German kaiser.

The propaganda made no distinction between the German government and the German people.

It portrayed immigrants as potential patriots.

. A race riot in which city ended in the largest court-martial in US history?

New York, New York

Houston, Texas

Los Angeles, California

New Orleans, Louisiana

. All of the following encouraged African Americans to relocate from the South to the North during the war except

lynchings, intimidation, and racist attitudes at home.

a hurricane which wiped out many sharecroppers' houses and farms.

promises of higher paying jobs in the North.

labor recruiters encouraged Blacks to move.

. All of the following refer to the successful drive for women's suffrage in 1920 except

Wilson cited women's war service as the reason he endorsed the Nineteenth Amendment.

Susan B. Anthony was the long-time feminist who brought suffrage to fruition.

Suffragettes picketed the White House and were arrested and force-fed by prison guards after they refused food.

At first, the National American Woman Suffrage Association lobbied state by state to obtain the right of women to cast ballots in all elections.

. In his Fourteen Points speech to Congress in early 1918, Woodrow Wilson articulated which of the following postwar goals?

Freedom of navigation on the seas

Establishment of a multinational organization to guarantee mutual protection of political and territorial rights

Affirmation of the right to national self-determination

All of the above

. Wilson undercut one of the Fourteen Points on the evacuation of Russian territory because

American troops were occupying Siberia.

he believed that the Bolsheviks might try to overthrow the United States.

he refused to recognize the Communist government.

he believed that the Russian government required more reform.

. All of the following refer to the Sacco and Vanzetti case except

Both men were eventually cleared of false charges of robbery and murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

Liberal Americans believed that the pair had been executed because they were Italians and anarchists.

The judge seemed to have a bias in favor of the prosecution.

Ballistic experts claimed that the bullets came from Sacco's gun.

. What happened to labor leader Eugene V. Debs during the war?

He was arrested for protesting.

He forged an alliance with corporations.

He led a variety of successful strikes.

He enlisted.

. _______ was a manager of the government's propaganda office, called the Committee on Public Information, during World War I.

Woodrow Wilson

Bernard Baruch

Eugene Debs

George Creel

. Which of the following measures did the War Industries Board undertake?

Regulating prices

Instituting a corporate tax

Working to help companies make goods not involved in the war

None of the above

. Which of the following groups was the prime target of federal action to suppress war opposition?

Labor unions

African Americans

Germans

Enemy agents

. What kind of reception did antiwar progressives receive in the United States?

They were initially disregarded, but people eventually saw the wisdom of their ways and they led a strong antiwar movement.

They consistently received strong national support.

The were denounced as traitors.

Woodrow Wilson integrated their viewpoints into his cabinet.

. The US Senate refused to ratify Wilson's Treaty of Versailles for all of the following reasons except

The Senate had a Republican majority and did not wish to see the Democratic president triumph politically.

Senators feared that the League of Nations would determine American foreign policy.

Senators viewed Latin America as more important than Europe to US security.

Senators wanted to focus diplomatic strategies on American economic policy.

.

Map shows U S invasion of Mexico. Route of Pershing's expeditionary force March 1916 to February 1917 is from Columbus, down south to Casa Grandes, and then to Parral. The states in Mexico are Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Ciudad de Mexico, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacatecas.

Map 20-1: The US Invasions of Mexico, 1914, 1917." Woodrow Wilson's attitude towards Mexico and Latin America was similar to that of which president?

Rutherford B. Hayes

William McKinley

Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

. "America In The World: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic" illustrates the effects of which of the following developments?

Global war

Transportation technology

Wartime propaganda

All of the above

. Breaking with precedent, President Wilson refused to use American troops in the Caribbean.

True

False

. When looking at economic figures before the Great War, it is clear that the US supported Great Britain and France instead of Germany.

True

False

. Prior to entry into World War I, US neutrality was absolute.

True

False

. Americans of all classes and ethnicities supported the American position in the Great War.

True

False

. The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits limiting the right to vote based on race or gender.

True

False

. Wartime propaganda targeted German Americans and American pacifists.

True

False

. "Red Scare" was a term used to describe the fear of Communist influence or attack in from 1919 through 1920. This fear led to several restrictive laws as well as attacks on immigrants and union members.

True

False

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