Chapter 19

Question 1

US Secretary of State before WWI

Answer 1

William Jennings Bryan

Question 2

Mexican dictator, 1876 to 1911, popular among American businessmen

Answer 2

Porfirio Díaz

Question 3

“One of the most grotesque tyrannies in Mexican history”

Answer 3

Victoriano Huerta

Question 4

Mexican bandit leader who raided a New Mexico border town

Answer 4

Pancho Villa

Question 5

German ruler who drew England into war

Answer 5

Wilhelm II

Question 6

“The world must be made safe for democracy”

Answer 6

Woodrow Wilson

Question 7

Administrator of the Food Administration

Answer 7

Herbert Hoover

Question 8

Christian who won the Medal of Honor in WWI

Answer 8

Alvin C. York

Question 9

American general who led US troops in WWI

Answer 9

John J. Pershing

Question 10

The nations that opposed Germany in WWI

Answer 10

Allies

Question 11

Germany and its allies during WWI

Answer 11

Central Powers

Question 12

Passenger liner that the Germans sunk with Americans aboard

Answer 12

Lusitania

Question 13

American’s commitment to oppose Germany if submarine warfare continued

Answer 13

Sussex Pledge

Question 14

German plot to give part of the United States to Mexico

Answer 14

Zimmermann telegram

Question 15

Established the right to limit free speech during wartime

Answer 15

Schenk v. United States

Question 16

Peacetime association of nations that sought to prevent war

Answer 16

League of Nations

Question 17

Where American troops fought to stop the German offensive

Answer 17

Chateau-Thierry

Question 18

Where American troops launched and fought a costly offensive

Answer 18

Argonne

Question 19

Truce ending WWI

Answer 19

Armistice

Question 20

In what year did the United States enter the Great War?

Answer 20

1917

Question 21

What term was popularly used to refer to American soldiers in WWI

Answer 21

Doughboys

Question 22

On what exact date did the Germans sign an armistice, ending WWI

Answer 22

November 11, 1918

Question 23

What name was given to the clause in the peace treaty making Germany responsible for the war?

Answer 23

War-Guilt

Question 24

What unreasonable economic demand did Britain and France impose on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 24

Reparations

Question 25

Which event sparked WWI?

Answer 25

The murder of archduke Ferdinand

Question 26

What event happened first leading up to WWI?

Answer 26

Austria declared war on Serbia

Question 27

What was the purpose of Germany’s Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 27

To defeat France quickly and then attack Russia

Question 28

Germany’s invasion of which nation brought Great Britain into WWI?

Answer 28

Belgium

Question 29

What was probably the greatest factor in America’s entrance into WWI?

Answer 29

Submarine warfare in the Atlantic

Question 30

What was the main provision of the Selective Service Act?

Answer 30

The draft

Question 31

What was the main provision of the Espionage and Sedition Acts?

Answer 31

Banning criticism of the war effort

Question 32

What famous phrase came from the Schenk decision?

Answer 32

A clear and present danger

Question 33

What did the Fourteen Points include?

Answer 33

The League of Nations

Question 34

Who was America’s “Ace of Aces”?

Answer 34

Eddie Rickenbacker

Question 35

Which plank from the Fourteen Points was included in the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 35

Self-determination

Question 36

Which British master politician went to Versailles pledging to “squeeze them till the pips squeak”?

Answer 36

David Lloyd George