Exam 22: America and the Great War

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The outbreak of the Great War, also know...

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A) His health failed, leading him to be bedridden for months, which inspired sympathy for his position and the official passage of the treaty.
B) He won enough support to reach a compromise over a slightly revised treaty known as the Fourteen Points.
C) He faced the least opposition from Henry Cabot Lodge, who refused to make any changes to the treaty.
D) He successfully pressured senators to pass the treaty without revisions and built a much closer relationship between the United States and Germany.
E) His failing health after a stroke, his refusal to compromise, and his alienation of Republican senators ultimately caused the treaty to fail to pass.

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A) when Russia was defeated on the battlefield at the hands of the Germans because Russian industrialization was unable to keep up with German industrialization
B) after Vladimir Lenin had taken power in Russia and was willing to accept harsh terms ending Russian participation in order to concentrate on the ongoing civil war there
C) when Russia threatened to withdraw from the League of Nations because the stipulations of the league would have hurt its economy
D) during the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles because Vladimir Lenin was affronted when the Allies only offered him negative terms and refused to accept them
E) when Joseph Stalin withdrew all Russian forces from Germany, anticipating that the Allies would soon win the war without Russian intervention

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A) America must be the first nation to declare war to have the most say in shaping the war.
B) America must refuse to interfere in the affairs of other nations in all cases.
C) America has a duty to spread democracy and Christianity throughout the world.
D) America should prove its military might wherever and whenever possible.
E) America must always put internationality above nationality.

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A) Croatia.
B) Bulgaria.
C) Germany.
D) Austro-Hungarian Empire.
E) Switzerland.

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A) the League of Nations army, which would enforce peace internationally and avoid the need for individual nations' own armies
B) the Permanent Court of Justice, which would rule on international disputes and was designed by Theodore Roosevelt
C) Article X, which would pledge members to consult on military and economic sanctions against aggressors
D) the Assembly, which would allow each League member an equal voice including the Germans and Russians
E) the idea of using war to settle major disputes now that technology had advanced enough to make it less deadly

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A) Due to the limited number of male volunteers, many women were encouraged to join the armed forces, with significant numbers of them becoming accomplished pilots.
B) Because the United States was so populated that wartime never brought labor shortages, women remained confined to traditional roles within the domestic sphere.
C) Throughout the war, women were only permitted to support the war effort in traditional ways, such as volunteering for the Red Cross, running fund-raising drives, and working as nurses.
D) The war shook up American society to such a degree that most women who attained nontraditional wartime roles kept them for the rest of their careers and helped train a new generation of workers.
E) Due to the large number of men in the armed forces, women were encouraged, as the scope of the war widened until the end of the war, to take jobs that had been held primarily by men.

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A) It came quickly in response to the sinking of the Lusitania.
B) It was unanimous.
C) It was divided strictly along party lines.
D) It passed overwhelmingly.
E) It eliminated Wilson's doubts regarding entering the war.

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A) was the executive director of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) who organized it into four divisions
B) was the U.S. attorney general that led the Red Scare and promoted raids on alien "radicals"
C) was a strict pacifist, served as Wilson's first secretary of state, and foresaw the implications of sending aid to the Allies
D) was a Republican representative from Montana who voted against American entry into the Great War
E) was the leading Republican in Congress as well as the reservationist concerning the League of Nations
F) was the business magnate who headed the Food Administration during the Great War
G) was the Marxist radical who returned to Russia with the help of the Germans and led the Bolshevik Revolution
H) was originally a pacifist but went on to be an American soldier who captured more than 100 Germans during the Great War
I) was a general who commanded U.S. forces in France, such as in the Battle of Belleau Wood
J) was a Socialist leader who was jailed for sympathizing with men who encouraged avoidance of the draft

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A) was the executive director of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) who organized it into four divisions
B) was the U.S. attorney general that led the Red Scare and promoted raids on alien "radicals"
C) was a strict pacifist, served as Wilson's first secretary of state, and foresaw the implications of sending aid to the Allies
D) was a Republican representative from Montana who voted against American entry into the Great War
E) was the leading Republican in Congress as well as the reservationist concerning the League of Nations
F) was the business magnate who headed the Food Administration during the Great War
G) was the Marxist radical who returned to Russia with the help of the Germans and led the Bolshevik Revolution
H) was originally a pacifist but went on to be an American soldier who captured more than 100 Germans during the Great War
I) was a general who commanded U.S. forces in France, such as in the Battle of Belleau Wood
J) was a Socialist leader who was jailed for sympathizing with men who encouraged avoidance of the draft

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A) no political experience before he was elected president.
B) no formal education apart from what he read on his own in library books.
C) extensive experience and expertise in world affairs before entering the presidency.
D) little experience in international relations before he was elected president.
E) very little influence on the domestic economy while president.

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A) was the executive director of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) who organized it into four divisions
B) was the U.S. attorney general that led the Red Scare and promoted raids on alien "radicals"
C) was a strict pacifist, served as Wilson's first secretary of state, and foresaw the implications of sending aid to the Allies
D) was a Republican representative from Montana who voted against American entry into the Great War
E) was the leading Republican in Congress as well as the reservationist concerning the League of Nations
F) was the business magnate who headed the Food Administration during the Great War
G) was the Marxist radical who returned to Russia with the help of the Germans and led the Bolshevik Revolution
H) was originally a pacifist but went on to be an American soldier who captured more than 100 Germans during the Great War
I) was a general who commanded U.S. forces in France, such as in the Battle of Belleau Wood
J) was a Socialist leader who was jailed for sympathizing with men who encouraged avoidance of the draft

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