True or False Chapter 21 Self-Quiz 2

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. The assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a teenage Serb nationalist fighting for the Bosnian Serb minority under Austrian control.

. The few hundred yards between the trenches of opposing armies in World War I was called "no-man's land."

. As a sign of their solidarity, major New York banks loaned nearly $2.5 billion to Germans in the first two and one-half years of the war.

. By 1916 the German military high command had superseded the government of the Kaiser.

. Rather than as a formal ally of Britain and France, the United States entered World War I as an "associated power."

. The IQ tests administered by the War Department during World War I were interpreted as proof of Anglo-American superiority.

. In the cases of Schenck v. United States and Abrams v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected government restrictions of free speech.

. Race riots in the United States between 1917 and 1919 occurred mostly in the Jim Crow South.

. Riots and hunger among civilians prompted German military leaders to push civilian politicians to seek a U.S. brokered cease-fire.

. President Woodrow Wilson's lack of support for national self-determination for colonial peoples at Versailles helped radicalize many leaders of independence movements in Asia.

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