Deck 23: The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order

Question 1

Progressive diplomacy embodied all the following EXCEPT

A) a belief in moralism in international affairs.
B) a belief in the superiority of Anglo-American institutions, and therefore in America's mission to help . civilize the non-Western world.
C) a nationalistic commitment to remaining aloof from global power politics in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
D) a pragmatic commitment to preserving and enlarging opportunities for international trade.

Answer 1

a nationalistic commitment to remaining aloof from global power politics in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Question 2

Roosevelt justified his "corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine with the reasoning that

A) the instability of Latin American nations made them vulnerable to intervention by European powers.
B) the untapped resources of Latin American nations made them fair game for aggressive American exploitation.
C) the U.S. Navy, if displayed in all its power in Asia, would intimidate the imperial powers from any
aggressive moves against American interests.
D) Monroe would have agreed if he could have anticipated the insecurity of the modern world.

Answer 2

the instability of Latin American nations made them vulnerable to intervention by European powers.

Question 3

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Central Powers in WWI?

A) Germany
B) Italy
C) Bulgaria
D) Turkey

Answer 3

Italy

Question 4

All of the following inclined the U.S. toward entering on the side of the Allies in WWI EXCEPT tha

A) although some progressives opposed war, the idealistic progressive spirit pointed toward an American
campaign to end militarism and establish a peaceful world order.
B) the U.S. had cultural, economic, and historical ties to the Allies.
C) although a pacifist at heart, Wilson campaigned for re-election in 1916 on a hawkish platform-and won decisively.
D) the Germans employed submarine warfare against American merchant vessels.

Question 5

Among the "home front" impacts of World War I were all of the following EXCEPT

A) a draft to provide military manpower.
B) a government-business partnership to manage the war economy.
C) a spirit of unity that reduced racial and ethnic tensions.
D) a government information agency designed to stir up patriotic support for the war.

Question 6

All were true of the war's impact on the federal government EXCEPT that

A) centralized management along the lines of TR's New Nationalism accelerated the creation of the modern bureaucratic state.
B) the national debt multiplied tenfold.
C) government-sponsored propaganda promoted psychological and social conformity.
D) the Supreme Court struck down acts of Congress that curtailed American civil liberties.

Question 7

What new weapon finally broke the stalemate by negating the defensive advantage of entrenched troops?

A) the zeppelin
B) the Unterseeboote
C) the airplane
D) the tank

Question 8

The raids launched by Palmer were

A) part of a baseball scandal involving attempts to bribe a pitcher to switch teams.
B) incursions into New Mexico by a Mexican rebel who murdered Americans.
C) efforts by congressional insurgents to strip the speaker of the house of certain powers.
D) a series of illegal arrests of alleged radical subversives under the direction of the U.S. attorney general.

Question 9

Seeking to punish a revolutionary leader for an attack on Americans, Wilson dispatched an expeditionary force to ________.

Question 10

The business practice of providing welfare for workers-in the form of pension and profit-sharing programs, subsidized housing, personnel management, paid vacations, and other services and benefits-is known as ________.

Question 11

A(n) ________ is an outbreak of disease that spreads across national boundaries or across the world.

Question 12

What was the "Platt Amendment"? The "Roosevelt Corollary"? How were they used to justify American intervention in Latin America?

Question 13

What was "dollar diplomacy"? Did it succeed or fail? Why?

Question 14

What ethnic divisions and tensions in American society helped to undermine neutrality? How important were they in bringing the United States into World War I?

Question 15

What were the "Fourteen Points"? Why did Wilson promote them? How successful was he in achieving them?

Question 16

Describe the activities of the War Industries Board. How did it affect relations between business and government?

Question 17

What was the Committee on Public Information, and how did it contribute to postwar anti-radicalism?

Question 18

Describe the differences between Roosevelt's policies toward Latin America and Asia. Why were they different? How were they similar?

Question 19

Idealism and self-interest rarely part company in American foreign policy. How did Woodrow Wilson's "missionary diplomacy"
combine the two? Why did it ultimately fail in Mexico?

Question 20

Was American neutrality a realistic policy? What did Wilson hope to achieve with it? Why did it fail?

Question 21

In what ways were mobilization and the war effort a fulfillment of the progressive legacy? In what ways did the war deny the basic tenets of progressivism?

Question 22

Why did the United States fail to endorse the Treaty of Versailles? What role did Wilson play in the demise of the treaty?

Question 23

What ignited the anti-radical "Red scare"of 1919-1920? What could the president have done to quell the rising tide of hysteria? Why did the Red scare come to an end so quickly?