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Why did World War I transform Western civilization so profoundly?


A) The bitter war between the peaceful neighbors of Germany, France, and Britain shook the popular conceptions of politics deeply.
B) Since a vast majority of victims were civilians, the war forever changed public perceptions on the acceptability of military conflict.
C) As a global conflict between socialist nations on the one hand and monarchies on the other, the war signaled the ideological divisions of the twentieth century.
D) The war generated an economic boom in Europe and the United States that marked the beginning of the "roaring twenties."
E) The mass slaughter of World War I was hard to reconcile with the optimist claim that Western civilization was the triumph of reason and human progress.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

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All of the following groups supported Prohibition EXCEPT:


A) urban reformers wishing to undermine the city machines.
B) women reformers who believed men squandered their earnings on alcohol.
C) employers who hoped Prohibition would create a more disciplined labor force.
D) anti-immigrant Protestants who saw temperance as an American value.
E) Catholic priests who wished to curb the abuse of alcohol by parishioners.

F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

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The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) :


A) were the first federal restrictions on free speech since 1798.
B) drew mostly from similar language in state law.
C) came after strong public calls for a more "defensible democracy."
D) copied similar legislation from Germany, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.
E) were put on the books, but never applied.

F) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

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Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following principles EXCEPT:


A) an end to colonization.
B) self-determination for all nations.
C) freedom of the seas.
D) open diplomacy.
E) free trade.

F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -IWW


A) improving the human species by controlling heredity
B) relocation of blacks to the North
C) international police power in Western Hemisphere
D) a world organization
E) assimilating immigrants
F) British ship sunk by Germans
G) proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H) proposed agenda for the peace conference
I) Four-Minute Men
J) anti-labor crusade after the war
K) opposed U.S. entry into war
L) restricted Japanese immigration

M) F) and J)
N) B) and G)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -League of Nations


A) improving the human species by controlling heredity
B) relocation of blacks to the North
C) international police power in Western Hemisphere
D) a world organization
E) assimilating immigrants
F) British ship sunk by Germans
G) proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H) proposed agenda for the peace conference
I) Four-Minute Men
J) anti-labor crusade after the war
K) opposed U.S. entry into war
L) restricted Japanese immigration

M) F) and L)
N) C) and G)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Espionage Act

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The American Protective League:


A) supported radicals charged under the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
B) was concerned about protecting immigrants from persecution.
C) was concerned about the threat to civil liberties.
D) sought to protect women from abuse.
E) worked with the Justice Department to identify radicals.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Lusitania


A) improving the human species by controlling heredity
B) relocation of blacks to the North
C) international police power in Western Hemisphere
D) a world organization
E) assimilating immigrants
F) British ship sunk by Germans
G) proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H) proposed agenda for the peace conference
I) Four-Minute Men
J) anti-labor crusade after the war
K) opposed U.S. entry into war
L) restricted Japanese immigration

M) H) and J)
N) D) and F)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Committee on Public Information


A) improving the human species by controlling heredity
B) relocation of blacks to the North
C) international police power in Western Hemisphere
D) a world organization
E) assimilating immigrants
F) British ship sunk by Germans
G) proposed a German-Mexican alliance
H) proposed agenda for the peace conference
I) Four-Minute Men
J) anti-labor crusade after the war
K) opposed U.S. entry into war
L) restricted Japanese immigration

M) D) and L)
N) I) and K)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Marcus Garvey


A) arrested under the Espionage Act
B) liberal internationalism
C) Birth of a Nation
D) first female member of Congress
E) Niagara movement
F) Universal Negro Improvement Association
G) National Woman's Party
H) "Trans-National America"
I) Monroe Doctrine corollary
J) Dollar Diplomacy

K) B) and C)
L) A) and G)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Woodrow Wilson


A) arrested under the Espionage Act
B) liberal internationalism
C) Birth of a Nation
D) first female member of Congress
E) Niagara movement
F) Universal Negro Improvement Association
G) National Woman's Party
H) "Trans-National America"
I) Monroe Doctrine corollary
J) Dollar Diplomacy

K) E) and I)
L) B) and E)

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The Red Scare was a short-lived, but intense period of political intolerance inspired by the postwar strike wave and the social tensions and fears generated by the Russian Revolution.

A) True
B) False

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Theodore Roosevelt's taking of the Panama Canal Zone is an example of:


A) his ability to speak softly in diplomatic situations when he knew he was outgunned.
B) international Progressivism-the United States was intervening with the sole purpose to uplift the peoples of Central America.
C) liberal internationalism, since he worked closely with the French to work out a deal favorable to Panama.
D) his belief that civilized nations had an obligation to establish order in an unruly world.
E) one of the many wars in which Roosevelt involved the United States.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Assess the effectiveness of President Woodrow Wilson's response to Mexico's civil war.


A) While the United States was able to bring peace to the region, it also undermined the Democratic process.
B) In his zealous attempt to remove the dictator Porfirio Diaz, Wilson ended up destabilizing all of Central America.
C) Wilson's attempts to teach Mexican people how to select good men only led to the war spilling over into the United States.
D) President Wilson's efforts to support the popular leader "Pancho" Villa resulted in 10,000 U.S. troops joining the fighting between the troops of Huerta and Madero.
E) If General John Pershing had not undermined the military operation with his own corruption, Wilson's response to Villa would have been very effective.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced:


A) eight years of unprecedented stability in the region.
B) more military interventions than any other president before or since.
C) economic growth and diversity for the region.
D) very little to show for the policy, as his attention was mostly on Europe.
E) strong allies for the United States in World War I, especially Mexico.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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The Zimmermann Telegram:


A) helped assure Americans that Germany was not a threat.
B) clarified British war aims.
C) outlined the German plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
D) outlined the British plan for an attack on the United States by Mexico.
E) outlined the Fourteen Points.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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All of the following statements about African-American participation during World War I are true EXCEPT:


A) the navy barred African-Americans entirely.
B) the army was segregated.
C) President Wilson allowed African-American soldiers to march in a Paris victory parade.
D) the army barred most African-Americans from combat.
E) the army tried to persuade the French to not treat African-American soldiers as equals.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and C)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Liberal internationalism

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How did Garveyites define freedom at the time of World War I?


A) As the right to serve and desegregate military units.
B) As black self-reliance and national self-determination.
C) As equal pay for equal work.
D) As the perfect blending and assimilation of white and black Americans.
E) As the right to bear arms and listen to jazz.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

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