Ch.21/ 22 pt.1 Flashcards
(25 cards)
In April 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against the German Empire and its allies. He justified the United States’ involvement in World War I as America’s mission to:
“make the world safe for democracy.”
To ensure lasting peace, in 1917, President Wilson developed a comprehensive peace plan intended to shape the peace treaty and reshape the postwar world known as the:
Fourteen Points
All the following terms related to the World War I era are correctly identified EXCEPT:
Eastern Front: In this two-front war, the Eastern Front involved German and Austro-Hungarian forces waging war against the Russian Empire.
Allied Powers (Triple Entente): A competing military alliance composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey (the Ottoman Empire). (Answer)
Arabic Pledge: To ease tension between Germany and the United States after the sinking of the Arabic, Germany pledged to issue a warning before sinking a liner to ensure the safety of the noncombatants unless the crew tried to resist or escape.
Zimmerman Telegram: An intercepted diplomatic message in which Germany’s foreign secretary makes an implausible offer to form an alliance with Mexico and restore territory Mexico lost to the U.S. in 1847 if Mexico would engage in diversionary tactics to keep the U.S. occupied with war at home. Although there was no real threat of a Mexican-German alliance, the telegram served as a useful propaganda tool for Wilson to garner support for military action against Germany.
After a German submarine sunk the British passenger ship Lusitania on May 7, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson:
issued a series of harshly worded diplomatic notes demanding that Germany immediately end its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, apologize, and pay the families of those killed on the Lusitania.
Which of the following statements best describes the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
The Central powers sought to break the devastating military stalemate (trench warfare) on land by:
employing a new killing weapon known as the U-boat or Uterseeboot.
After six months of tense debates, the “Big Four” forged a peace settlement to end the war with Germany, known as the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty included all the following key provisions EXCEPT:
creation of the League of Nations.
granting the Allied Powers “most-favored-nation” status in trade agreements with the United States.
(Answer)
creation of newly independent countries that included Poland and Czechoslovakia.
a controversial “War Guilt” clause and reparation payments by Germany.
Why did William Jennings Bryan resign as President Wilson’s secretary of state in 1915?
he thought Wilson’s note to Germany denouncing the sinking of the Lusitania would draw America closer to war.
In response to pseudo-scientific theories about race, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which included all the following terms EXCEPT:
excluded all Asian immigrants except for Japanese and Filipinos. (Not Answer)
increased the head tax paid by immigrants upon arrival.
required immigrants over 16 to take a literacy test
imposed limits on the number of immigrants from Latin American countries, including Mexico.
In 1914, the world witnessed the startling outbreak of World War I in Europe. What defining event sparked this deadly global conflict in Europe?
a Serb’s assassination of the Austrian archduke.
One of Wilson’s primary goals at the Paris Peace Conference was to:
create an international collective security organization to ensure lasting peace.
In World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces was commanded by General:
John J. Pershing
President Wilson committed several serious missteps before and during his campaign to ratify the Treaty of Versailles that hindered his chances to get the Treaty confirmed by the Senate, including which of the following:
Which of the following statements best describes the Committee on Public Information?
was a domestic organization engaged in a broad-scale propaganda campaign to ensure unwavering support for the entire war effort during World War I.
The principal nations involved in the negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference included the United States and all the following European powers EXCEPT:
Germany( Answer)
Italy
France
Great Britain
Released in 1927, ________________ helped revolutionize cinematography by becoming the first feature-length “talkie” movie.
The Jazz Singer
All the following terms related to the 1920s are correctly identified EXCEPT:
Sheppard-Towner Act: provided federal funds for infant and maternity care.
Modernism: a cultural revolution loosely based on an unsettling assumption about God, reality, and social progress that influenced artists to rebel against tradition and convention in their artistic work.
“The Lost Generation:” label used to describe a generation of young people lost to the decadence, mass consumerism, and frivolity prevalent during the 1920’s. (Answer)
NAACP: Acronym for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, established in 1909 by African American leaders and white reformers to advance justice for African Americans.
Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance?
an outpouring of African American artistic and literary creativity.
Albert Einstein won the 1921 Noble Prize in Physics for his:
discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
All the following individuals are correctly connected with their achievements during the 1920s EXCEPT:
Margaret Sanger: a modern reformer who founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to Planned Parenthood.
Marcus Garvey: initiated the Niagara movement and was a co-founder of the NAACP, a civil rights organization aimed to fight for justice for African Americans. (Answer)
Sinclair Lewis: American novelist who satirized contemporary small-town America in Main Street and Babbitt.
T.S. Elliot: a leading American modernist and critic whose epic 443-line poem The Waste Land expressed a powerful sense of postwar disillusionment and melancholy.
Appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Wilson in 1919, A. Mitchell Palmer was thrust into the national spotlight when he:
The NAACP enjoyed an early victory when the Supreme Court struck down Oklahoma’s efforts to disenfranchise African American voters in _______________.
Guinn v. United States
This physician’s pioneering psychoanalytic work on human sexuality played a role in the sexual revolution of the 1920s.
Sigmund Freud
Charles Lindbergh became a celebrity when he:
became the first pilot to make the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York City to Paris.
