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Topic 24: The Nation at War

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This activity contains 36 questions.

	The U.S. economy prospered after the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, but loans and trade drew the United States ever closer to the side of the Allies.    True  False

	Because he had fought so doggedly for neutrality, Wilson was able to sympathize with those Americans who opposed the U.S. entry into the war in 1917.    True  False

	The fact that most African Americans actively supported the war effort had a calming effect on racial tensions at home during and after the war.    True  False

	Instead of the "peace without victory" that Wilson wanted, the Treaty of Versailles made Germany accept responsibility for World War I, and the European Allies demanded enormous reparations from Germany.    True  False

	At the beginning of his administration, President Wilson pledged to raise the moral level of American diplomacy by dealing with Latin American nations on terms of equality and honor.    True  False

	World War I began in Europe in 1914 when diplomacy failed and German leaders decided to seize the French Alsace-Lorraine region by force.    True  False

	When World War I began, most Americans, basking in their traditional isolationism, did not care which side won the war.    True  False

	American attitudes toward World War I were most influenced by British and German propaganda.    True  False

	Between 1914 and 1916, American trade with the Allies grew enormously, but trade with the Central Powers actually declined.    True  False

	Fearing he might not win reelection in 1916, President Wilson decided to choose the still-popular Theodore Roosevelt as his running mate in the presidential election.    True  False

	In the 1916 presidential election, the leading issue was American policy toward the warring nations in Europe.    True  False

	By the time the United States entered World War I in 1917, the nation's military was well prepared for combat.    True  False

	When the United States entered World War I, the federal government initiated extensive regulation of the economy.    True  False

	When the United States entered World War I, farm income rose dramatically.    True  False

	During World War I, many African Americans left the South to take jobs in war-production factories in America's cities.    True  False

	In order to combat black cynicism that World War I was a "white man's war," President Wilson ordered the desegregation of American armed forces.    True  False

	For the most part, those who had taken the Fourteen Points literally were satisfied with the terms of the peace treaty President Wilson returned from Paris with in 1919.    True  False

	Although it entered the war relatively late, U.S. sacrifices for victory in World War I were equal to those of Britain and France.    True  False

	President Wilson rejected the "big stick" and "dollar diplomacy" of his predecessors, and instead followed a course that renounced the use of force in Latin American relations.    True  False

	The Selective Service Act allowed favoritism and discrimination to occur in the drafting of manpower for World War I.    True  False

	President Wilson's phrase "peace without victory" suggested that all nations should be treated as equals in the postwar period.    True  False

	New defensive weapons and traditional frontal assaults dominated military strategy in World War I.    True  False

	W. E. B. Du Bois thought World War I would bring down the "walls of prejudice" created by the Jim Crow laws.    True  False

	The idea of neutral rights was compromised by the British from the beginning of World War I.    True  False

	President Wilson's Fourteen Points would lead to the creation of several new nations across eastern Europe.    True  False

	The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was prophetic in that it said Germany must never be allowed to rearm or another war would ensue.    True  False

	Between 1910 and 1920, American politics mirrored the calm and stability of the international system.    True  False

	As European powers competed for power in colonial venues around the world, the seeds were sown for World War I.    True  False

	Fearing the intervention of other nations in China's internal affairs (and hence markets), the United States desired an "open door" into China's trade.    True  False

	The assassination of the Russian tsar touched off the international hostilities now called "World War One."    True  False

	The United States invaded and occupied Mexico City in 1914 in an attempt to limit German influence in that nation.    True  False

	Woodrow Wilson's administration was the first to attempt to end discriminatory hiring practices in the federal government.    True  False

	D. W. Griffith's masterwork Birth of a Nation celebrated the Ku Klux Klan of the 1860s and helped inspire their rebirth that fall at Stone Mountain, Georgia.    True  False

	In 1916, Carrie Chapman Catt became the first female member of Congress.    True  False

	Socialist Margaret Sanger campaigned for women's access to contraception, opening the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916.    True  False

	"Bloody Ludlow" refers to a massacre of miners and their families by thugs (and state militia) of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 1914.    True  False

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