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What key technical developments made it possible for the phonograph to evolve from a laboratory novelty into a major commercial product?

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Commission on Training Camp Activities

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Which of the following is not true about the American economy during World War I?


A) Factory production increased by one-third.
B) Agricultural prices more than doubled
C) Cigarette consumption more than tripled.
D) The civilian work force contracted as Americans joined the armed forces.
E) Prices and wages rose.

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Which of the following was not a way that World War I affected American women?


A) Women served in the AEF.
B) A million women worked in industry during the years 1917-1918.
C) Millions of women entered the work force for the first time.
D) A constitutional amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote.
E) Women moved into better paying jobs.

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How did the federal government mobilize the nation for war, and what role did U.S. troops play in the war?

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During World War II, the federal governm...

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Zimmermann Telegram

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The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret dip...

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During the last years of the nineteenth century, the United States responded to events in China by


A) sending an American gunboat to force the Manchu dynasty to capitulate.
B) requesting equal trading privileges and the opening of trading ports in China.
C) bombing the capital until Chinese terrorists surrendered.
D) sending covert aid to the Harmonious Righteous Fists in an effort to overthrow the anti-Western Manchu empress.
E) demanding that an arbitration commission be established.

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Eighteenth Amendment

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Bernard Baruch and the War Industries Board

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Bernard Baruch was a financier, stock in...

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How did the Russo-Japanese war come to an end?


A) Japan forced Russia to surrender.
B) Russia forced Japan to surrender.
C) Theodore Roosevelt mediated the conflict and negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth between them.
D) After fighting to a stalemate, they agreed to return to the same status as before the war.
E) The two nations signed the Treaty of Paris.

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Franz Ferdinand

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Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Aust...

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Liberty Loans

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Liberty Loans were a series of war bond ...

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Nineteenth Amendment

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Which of the following statements about Woodrow Wilson's Latin American policy is not correct?


A) He pledged never again to seek additional territory by conquest.
B) He sent marines to Chile to punish the Sandinistas for an attack on an American-owned plantation.
C) He sent marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to restore stability and protect American investments.
D) He wanted to protect U.S. investments in Mexico.
E) He used American troops to force a Mexican leader to abdicate.

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What did the members of the preparedness movement advocate?


A) They claimed Americans should not be allowed to travel on foreign ships.
B) They issued an international denunciation of war as immoral.
C) They supported rearmament and universal military training.
D) They called for an invasion of Germany and full-scale war with Austria-Hungary.
E) They volunteered to provided neutral mediation of the war to end it by Christmas.

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Which allied offensive in the fall 1918 helped end the war?


A) Meuse-Argonne offensive
B) Ypres offensive
C) Mons offensive
D) Somme offensive
E) Alsace-Lorraine offensive

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Pancho Villa, General John J. Pershing

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Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary...

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What do Randolph Bourne, Jeannette Rankin, and Eugene V. Debs have in common?


A) They were all pro-German.
B) They were all opposed to World War I.
C) They all worked for the Creel Committee.
D) They were all convicted and hanged for terrorist activity.
E) They were all convicted of advocating socialism.

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ninety-Second Division

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The Ninety-Second Division, also known a...

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