Question 1

How did the United States recruit the army needed to tip the military balance on the Western Front in favor of the Allies?

Accepted Answer

A)   A military draft was instituted.
B)   The United States relied exclusively on volunteers.
C)   President Wilson offered financial rewards to new recruits.
D)   All convicted felons were forced to join the army.

Question 2

During the ratification debate on the Versailles Treaty, Republican opponents most objected to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   collective security provisions in the League of Nations charter
B)   American exclusion from receiving reparations payments
C)   the failure to hold war crimes trials
D)   the United States accepting equal guilt for the war

Question 3

After the German armies were stopped at the River Marne in September 1914, the war on the Western Front __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   became much less important than the war on the Eastern Front
B)   turned into a "cold war"
C)   settled into a bloody stalemate
D)   appeared to be over

Question 4

What did Woodrow Wilson mean when he observed that "it would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Before he was elected president, Wilson's political experience focused on achieving domestic progressive reform.
B)   Wilson had extensive foreign diplomatic experience before his election as president.
C)   The world was relatively at peace when Wilson became president.
D)   Wilson opposed American military and economic expansion abroad.

Question 5

Woodrow Wilson believed that U.S. economic expansion should be accompanied by __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   political domination
B)   democratic principles and Christianity
C)   military force and naval power
D)   American bureaucratic know-how

Question 6

The German use of __________ helped build public support for America's entry into World War I.

Accepted Answer

A)   mustard gas
B)   machine guns
C)   trench warfare
D)   submarine warfare

Question 7

How did President Wilson win over many Americans who had been reluctant to support U.S. entry into World War I?

Accepted Answer

A)   by defining the war as a moral crusade
B)   by promising to cut taxes
C)   by arguing that the war would be good for the American economy
D)   by promising not to impose a military draft

Question 8

The most important and long-lasting economic legacy of World War I was __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the breakup of corporations
B)   direct government ownership of defense industries
C)   implementation of a government-corporate partnership
D)   the reduction of government's influence over the economy

Question 9

Which of these was a lasting legacy of the wartime cooperation between business and government during World War I?

Accepted Answer

A)   Liberty Bonds
B)   prohibition
C)   the Committee on Public Information
D)   the Federal Reserve Board

Question 10

William Howard Taft's Central American policy was called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the "big stick"
B)   "dollar diplomacy"
C)   "American exceptionalism"
D)   the "Open Door"

Question 11

The __________ was the government's key tool for the suppression of antiwar sentiment during World War I.

Accepted Answer

A)   National Defense Act
B)   Roosevelt Corollary
C)   Espionage Act
D)   Sedition Act

Question 12

What was the purpose of the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

A)   to prevent European armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere
B)   to build American political influence in Latin America by increasing U.S. trade investments in that region
C)   to replace Mexican president Victoriano Huerta with a legitimately elected president
D)   to keep a balance of economic power in Latin America through the Open Door policy

Question 13

Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy was rooted in the assumption that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   America was culturally superior to its Latin American neighbors
B)   America should never go to war
C)   empire building and American values were incompatible
D)   one day America would rule the world

Question 14

What effect did World War I have on American race relations?

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Question 15

How did the end of World War I affect labor relations in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   Employers withdrew recognition of labor unions as government controls on industry came to an end.
B)   Following anti-immigrant suppression of labor unions during the war, organized labor faced greater economic and social opportunities after the war.
C)   The high wages of the war years had made workers complacent and reluctant to go on strike for more important civil rights.
D)   The national economy continued to thrive after the war ended and strengthened ties between employers and labor unions.

Question 16

Immigration restrictions were lifted for which immigrant group during World War I?

Accepted Answer

A)   Mexican agricultural workers
B)   Cuban sugar workers
C)   Chinese industrial workers
D)   Italian construction workers

Question 17

Which northern city, whose black population grew by 600 percent between 1914 and 1920, saw massive influx of black Southerners during the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

A)   Chicago
B)   Detroit
C)   East St. Louis
D)   New York

Question 18

Why was the alliance system in pre‒World War I Europe both a blessing and a curse?

Accepted Answer

A)   If successful, Europe would boom economically, but if not, depression would result.
B)   It could produce agricultural abundance or starvation.
C)   It could both appoint and remove monarchs.
D)   It could maintain peace or bring about war.

Question 19

Which statement best describes the U.S. senators who were referred to as "the irreconcilables"?

Accepted Answer

A)   They opposed the Treaty of Versailles in any form, whether it was amended or not.
B)   They were willing to accept an amended version of the Treaty of Versailles that called for a weaker version of the League of Nations.
C)   They were Democrats who initially supported the Treaty of Versailles but then voted against the amended version per Wilson's request.
D)   They were Democrats who refused to honor Wilson's request to vote against an amended Treaty of Versailles and, instead, voted for Henry Cabot Lodge's version.

Question 20

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was a direct outcome of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the building of the Panama Canal
B)   negotiation of the Treaty of Portsmouth
C)   the Nationalist Chinese revolt of 1911
D)   the success of the American Expeditionary Force

Exam 22: The United States in the Era of the Great War

Which statement best describes the U.S. senators who were referred to as "the irreconcilables"?

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The most important and long-lasting economic legacy of World War I was __________.

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After the German armies were stopped at the River Marne in September 1914, the war on the Western Front __________.

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Which northern city, whose black population grew by 600 percent between 1914 and 1920, saw massive influx of black Southerners during the Great Migration?

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Woodrow Wilson believed that U.S. economic expansion should be accompanied by __________.

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The __________ was the government's key tool for the suppression of antiwar sentiment during World War I.

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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was a direct outcome of __________.

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How did the end of World War I affect labor relations in the United States?

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Why was the alliance system in pre‒World War I Europe both a blessing and a curse?

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The German use of __________ helped build public support for America's entry into World War I.

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Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy was rooted in the assumption that __________.

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Immigration restrictions were lifted for which immigrant group during World War I?

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During the ratification debate on the Versailles Treaty, Republican opponents most objected to __________.

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What was the purpose of the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

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What effect did World War I have on American race relations?

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Which of these was a lasting legacy of the wartime cooperation between business and government during World War I?

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How did President Wilson win over many Americans who had been reluctant to support U.S. entry into World War I?

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How did the United States recruit the army needed to tip the military balance on the Western Front in favor of the Allies?

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William Howard Taft's Central American policy was called __________.

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