Deck 3: 1917-1920: The Failure of World War I

Question 1

The First World War helped promote the ideals of Progressivism.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

U.S. food exports nearly tripled during the First World War.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

During the First World War, German-language books were burned in Oklahoma.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Speaking out against the First World War was a criminal offense in the United States.

Question 5

Fewer than a thousand people were convicted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

Question 6

The Russians made peace with the Germans in 1918.

Question 7

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech met with widespread approval.

Question 8

The United States experienced approximately 3,600 strikes in the year 1919.

Question 9

Fewer than 500 people were injured in the 1919 race riot in Chicago.

Question 10

World War I ushered in lasting improvements to the lives of African-Americans.

Question 11

Why did the U.S. Congress refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

Question 12

What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts? How were they employed? Was the U.S. government justified in adopting the acts? Why or why not?

Question 13

What was the tension between U.S. foreign policy and the U.S. domestic situation at the end of World War I? Explain.

Question 14

What did "Hooverizing" refer to?

A) Disenfranchising the poor
B) Combating dissent
C) Buying war bonds
D) Conserving food

Question 15

The temperance movement called for which of the following?

A) Alcohol prohibition
B) Sexual abstinence
C) Moral virtue
D) All of the above

Question 16

The First World War precipitated what social reforms?

A) Alcohol prohibition
B) Women's suffrage
C) Desegregation
D) a. and b.

Question 17

Which of the following was depicted in the film The Spirit of '76?

A) British atrocities in the Revolutionary War
B) The United States's centennial
C) The United State's bicentennial
D) All of the above

Question 18

The War Department estimated that there were how many draft dodgers during the First World War?

A) 700
B) 17,000
C) 171,000
D) 345,000

Question 19

The Wilson administration used what tactics to silence dissenters?

A) Deport radical immigrants
B) Dispatch troops as strikebreakers
C) Prosecute dissenters under the Espionage and Sedition Acts
D) All of the above

Question 20

The Espionage Act of 1918 made it illegal to do what?

A) Speak out against U.S. intervention in the First World War
B) Act as a spy for foreign powers
C) Print details of military operations in Europe
D) All of the above

Question 21

In what year did the First World War end?

A) 1911
B) 1914
C) 1917
D) 1918

Question 22

In what year did the Bolsheviks seize control of Russia?

A) 1905
B) 1911
C) 1917
D) 1918

Question 23

Approximately how many Allied soldiers died in World War I?

A) 1 million
B) 2 million
C) 3 million
D) 4 million

Question 24

Approximately how many U.S. soldiers died in World War I?

A) 520
B) 5,200
C) 52,000
D) 520,000

Question 25

In 1919, race riots broke out in which U.S. cities?

A) Longview, Texas
B) Washington, D.C.
C) Omaha, Nebraska
D) All of the above

Question 26

Who was Woodrow Wilson's primary political opponent?

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Warren Hardin
C) Henry Cabot Lodge
D) Herbert Hoover

Question 27

Germany was expected to pay how much in war reparations following World War I?

A) $1 billion
B) $33 billion
C) $133 billion
D) $233 billion

Question 28

Who were the "irreconcilables"?

A) Americans unwilling to serve in the First World War
B) Americans unwilling to accede to the Treaty of Versailles
C) American politicians unwilling to support U.S. intervention in the First World War
D) American politicians unwilling to accede to the Treaty of Versaille

Question 29

Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play professional baseball, was signed by what team?

A) The Boston Red Sox
B) The Brooklyn Dodgers
C) The New York Giants
D) The Chicago White Sox

Question 30

In the quarter-century prior to 1917, how many people had immigrated to the United States?

A) 8 million
B) 13 million
C) 18 million
D) 23 million

Question 31

Which high-profile socialist supported U.S. involvement in World War I?

A) Upton Sinclair
B) Jack London
C) Eugene Debs
D) a. and b.

Question 32

How much time did Eugene Debs serve in prison?

A) One year
B) Two and a half years
C) Five years
D) Seven and a half years

Question 33

The Sedition Act made it illegal to defame which of the following?

A) The flag
B) The Constitution
C) Military uniforms
D) All of the above

Question 34

Who was the leader of Bolshevik Party that overthrew the Russian government?

A) George Lvo
B) Nicholas II
C) V.I. Lenin
D) Alexander Kerensky

Question 35

U.S. military forces entered the field how many months prior to the war's conclusion?

A) Seven
B) Twelve
C) Fifteen
D) Eighteen

Question 36

Talk About:
-Alice Paul

Question 37

Talk About:
-Bolsheviks

Question 38

Talk About:
-Eighteenth Amendment

Question 39

Talk About:
-Espionage Act

Question 40

Talk About:
-Eugene Debs

Question 41

Talk About:
-Herbert Hoover

Question 42

Talk About:
-Industrial Workers of the World

Question 43

Talk About:
-League of Nations

Question 44

Talk About:
-Liberty Bonds

Question 45

Talk About:
-Nineteenth Amendment

Question 46

Talk About:
-Palmer raids

Question 47

Talk About:
-Paris Peace Conference

Question 48

Talk About:
-Progressivism

Question 49

Talk About:
-Red Scare

Question 50

Talk About:
-Red Summer

Question 51

Talk About:
-Schenck v. United States

Question 52

Talk About:
-Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Question 53

Talk About:
-War Industries Board

Question 54

Talk About:
-war reparations

Question 55

Discuss the Wilsonian ideals as expressed in the Fourteen Points. Were they consistently applied? Were they earnestly and genuinely put forward? Or were they, as a British delegate to the Paris peace talks claimed, merely "vague idealism" advocating "a system which America might refuse to apply even to her own continent"? Were they merely "principles... designed to protect American interests"?

Question 56

Following the First World War, America experienced a "Red Scare," that is, a fear of communist infiltration. Were reactions to the scare, both those of the U.S. government and of the American people, in keeping with U.S. ideals of freedom and liberty? Why or why not?