Chapter 23

1.

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At the Paris Peace Conference, Woodrow Wilson worked hardest on:

establishing the League of Nations.

creating the mandate system for former colonies.

2.

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The body of ideas known as Wilsonianism and summarized in the Fourteen Points included the belief that:

democratic nations should enter into a collective-security agreement to contain and eliminate the communist threat.

empires should be dismantled and the nationalities in Europe should be free to determine and control their own destiny.

3.

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The summer of 1919 came to be labeled the "Red Summer" because of:

a rash of bloody race riots.

the red banners carried by thousands of women celebrating the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

4.

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Under the mandate system administered by the League of Nations:

Great Britain received three provinces that were formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and that became Iraq.

the United States gained administrative rights over Lebanon and Syria.

5.

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Why was American neutrality in response to the First World War never a real possibility?

Because the American press had built broad-based sympathy for Serbian nationalism.

Because the United States had stronger economic ties to the Allies than to the Central Powers.

6.

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The 369th Infantry Regiment, the most decorated American regiment of World War I, was unusual in that it:

was an all-black regiment.

fought in the trenches of France under British command.

7.

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During the First World War, the U.S. Employment Service:

actively encouraged workers in defense-related industries to organize and strike for better wages and better working conditions.

temporarily relaxed some provisions of the immigration law to attract certain workers from Mexico.

8.

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Which of the following was one of the reasons that V. I. Lenin concluded a separate peace with Germany in the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Lenin wanted Russian troops to return home to help in the fight against the anti-Bolshevik forces attempting to overthrow his government.

Lenin realized that he could further expand the Russian empire by concluding a separate peace with Germany.

9.

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The Zimmermann affair involved:

German attempt to get Mexico to join an anti-American alliance.

President Wilson's secret military buildup while the United States was still supposed to be a neutral nation.

10.

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British naval policy during the First World War:

respected the traditional rights of neutral nations.

violated neutral rights and led to frequent protests from President Wilson.

11.

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Which of the following statements is accurate in relation to the Palmer Raids?

A well-organized Bolshevik conspiracy against the United States government was crushed.

The attorney general, in dealing with supposed radicals, showed disregard for civil liberties.

12.

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During World War I:

soldiers were threatened with court martial if they caught a venereal disease.

women failed to get the army to allow them to serve in the Signal Corps.

13.

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The Sedition Act made it illegal to:

reside in the United States if one was a resident alien whose home country was at war with the United States.

use disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States government.

14.

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Which of the following organizations emerged in 1919 and preached a brand of antiradicalism that fueled the Red Scare?

The Chamber of Commerce

The American Legion

15.

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Which of the following was a belief held by President Woodrow Wilson?

America deserves whatever spoils of war it can get.

America is destined to act as a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.