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The Roosevelt Corollary was significant to U.S. relations with countries in the Western Hemisphere during the 20th century because it established the precedent that the United States ___________.
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Had the right to intervene in Latin America countries.
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Which 1917 legislative act established the American draft in World War I?
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Selective Service Act
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Which of the following was not a way that World War I affected American women?
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Millions of women entered the work force for the first time.
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Which of the following was not one of the reasons that Woodrow Wilson's efforts at the Versailles Peace Conference were hampered even before he left the United States?
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The Germans had already rejected the Fourteen Points as a basis of negotiations.
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The Fourteen Points were ______.
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Woodrow Wilson's statement of American war aims.
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Which of the following was a new technique of warfare that was introduced in World War I?
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Air conflict
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Which of the following was not one of the ways that Germany alienated many Americans?
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It distributed lurid and exaggerated propaganda about atrocities by the British.
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Which statement best describes the Treaty of Versailles?
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It was harsh in that it stripped Germany of territory and saddled that country with immense reparations.
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What was the main issue in the 1916 presidential elections?
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The war in Europe
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Who commanded American forces in Mexico and later the AEF?
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John J. Pershing
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In Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that ______.
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the government could curtail free speech when exercise of it presented a "clear and present danger" to the country.
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The Open Door Notes advocated free and open trade with which of the following countries?
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China
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The Creel Committee on Public Information __________.
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used propaganda to spread the U.S. government's official version of the war.
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What was President Wilson's first official response when war broke out in Europe in 1914?
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He announced a declaration of neutrality and called on the nation to be neutral in thought as well as action.
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The Great White Fleet was a squadron of battleships sent around the world in 1907-1909 by __________.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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In response to the sinking of the Lusitania, the United States ________.
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demanded that Germany cease unrestricted submarine warfare.
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In the two years after the conclusion of World War I, which of the following occurred in the United States?
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wide-scale harassment of suspected radicals, violence against blacks, and a rash of strikes
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Which of the following descriptions best describes the American army when the United States entered World War I?
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It was woefully unprepared, with little combat experience and an aging officer corps.
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Which of the following is not true about the American economy during World War I?
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The civilian work force contracted as Americans joined the armed forces.
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Which of the following nations used propaganda most effectively to demonize its enemy prior to the America's entrance into the war?
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Great Britian
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What was the initial reaction of most Americans to the outbreak of World War I in Europe?
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They wanted to ensure that the United States could stay out of the conflict.
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The Zimmermann telegram __________.
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proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico in a war against the United States after which, Mexico would receive New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.
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The "gentlemen's agreement" was an ________
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arrangement in which Japan agreed to end the emigration of Japanese laborers to the United States.
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In order to acquire the right for the United States to build a canal across Panama in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt __________.
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helped facilitate a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia and then negotiated a treaty to lease a strip of territory.
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While the Treaty of Versailles was opposed for many reasons, what was the most important criticism of it?
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Article 10 seemed to limit America's sovereignty and infringed on Congress's constitutional power to declare war.
