HIST 1302 Quiz 21 – Flashcards
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"He kept us out of the war" was the 1916 Republican campaign cry against Wilson
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false
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"Sometimes people call me an idealist but that's how I know I'm an American" declared
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Woodrow Wilson
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After WW1 the Senate
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defeated the Treaty of Versailles
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All of the following statements about post- WW1 America are correct except; a) most working women kept their wartime industrial jobs b) racial violence broke out in Chicago c) the police went on strike in Boston d) a Red Scare erupted against radicals
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A
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For Wilson, the most important part of the peace negotiations involved
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the League of Nations
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For two years after the war began in Europe, the Wilson administration pursued a policy that stressed
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neutrality
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in 1910 the largest group of "hyphenated" Americans was from Ireland
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false
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In 1918 the United States sent troops to fight the Bolsheviks in Russia
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true
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More people worldwide died in the flu pandemic of 1918- 1919 than during WW1
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true
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Probably the decisive reason the United States entered WW1 was the issue of submarine warfare
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true
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Radical conflict among Americans during and after WW1 resulted from
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the mass movement of southern blacks to northern cities
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Racial violence erupted after the end of the war with twenty- five riots and over eighty lynchings
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true
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the Boston police strike of 1919 helped launch Warren G Harding's political career
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false
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The Revenue Act of 1916
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taxed excess profits of corporations, added a tax on munitions makers, and doubled the basic income tax rate
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The War Industries Board was the most important agency mobilizing the nation for war
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true
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The Zimmermann telegram revealed Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare
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false
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the irreconcilables were primarily
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midwestern and western progressives
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The postwar Red Scare was aimed at
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Bolsheviks, radicals, and aliens
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The sinking of the Titanic off Ireland by U- boats made many Americans anit- German
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false
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The wartime Espionage and Sedition Acts
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were upheld by the Supreme Court, led to the persecution of more than 1500 people, and hit hard at socialists and radicals
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Until early 1918 US forces in Europe
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only played a token role
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when the Germans sued for peace, they wanted the negotiations to focus around the Fourteen Points
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true
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Which of the following best describes how the outbreak of the Great War impacted the American people
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All
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William Jennings Bryan resigned as secretary of state
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in the uproar after the sinking of the Lusitania
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Wilson thought Germany's admission of war guilt was the most necessary part of the peace negotiations
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false
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Wilson,s Fourteen Points included all the following except: a) freedom of the seas b) replacing the czar an the Russian throne c) The League of Nations d) and independent Poland
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B
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Wilson's decision to attend the Paris Peace Conference was a political blunder in the eyes of many Americans
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true
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Wilson's failiure to take a major Republican to the postwar peace conference was a mistake because
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the Republicans controlled Congress
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Women made major and lasting gains as workers when they entered the workforce in large numbers during WW1
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false
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WW1 began soon after a Serbian nationalist assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand
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true
