American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 21: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR

True or False Quiz

1
Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States should reduce its world commitments and concentrate instead on domestic reform.
A)True
B)False
2
William Howard Taft's approach to foreign policy was given the nickname "Dollar Diplomacy."
A)True
B)False
3
The United States military intervened in Mexican affairs during Woodrow Wilson's administration.
A)True
B)False
4
For the first part of World War I, Russia was an ally of Great Britain and France.
A)True
B)False
5
At the time of its sinking by German submarine, the British ocean liner Lusitania was carrying munitions as well as passengers.
A)True
B)False
6
Woodrow Wilson's victorious presidential campaign in 1916 was significantly aided by his pledge that the United States would enter World War I on the Allied side if he were reelected.
A)True
B)False
7
The episode involving the intercepted telegram from Arthur Zimmermann concerned American relations with Mexico.
A)True
B)False
8
Although German scientists had developed chemical weapons such as mustard gas, they never used them for fear that the Allies would retaliate with their own poison gas.
A)True
B)False
9
9. The most immediate effect that the U.S. had on the war once it joined was at sea versus German U-boats.
A)True
B)False
10
The biggest defeat of American ground forces in World War I was in the Argonne Forest.
A)True
B)False
11
In order to keep support for the war high, the federal government chose to raise all extra funds by selling war bonds rather than raising taxes.
A)True
B)False
12
As President Wilson's principle economic advisor during World War I, Bernard Baruch adopted a hands-off policy and let market forces determine wartime industrial output.
A)True
B)False
13
Government action during World War I pressured industry to grant concessions to labor such as the eight-hour day and union recognition.
A)True
B)False
14
Unlike France and Great Britain, where opposition to the war was treated harshly, the United States allowed dissidents to speak and operate freely without supervision or harassment.
A)True
B)False
15
A major category of Wilson's Fourteen Points concerned the aspirations for postwar European boundaries and self-determination for the people of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires.
A)True
B)False
16
Wilson's Fourteen Points contained proposals for an alliance of western European powers against the newly created Soviet Union.
A)True
B)False
17
When Wilson traveled to Paris for the peace conference, he visited several European cities and encountered considerable public hostility toward his idealistic ideas for peace.
A)True
B)False
18
In the United States Senate the leader of the opposition to Wilson, the treaty, and the League of Nations was Henry Cabot Lodge.
A)True
B)False
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