Chapter 29 Test

1.

4 points

Which one of the following was not among Wilson's Fourteen Points, upon which he based America's idealistic foreign policy in World War I?

Reduction of armaments.

An international guarantee of freedom of religion.

Abolition of secret treaties.

The principle of national self-determination for subject peoples.

2.

4 points

Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it

failed to provide enough German financial reparations to the United States.

violated Wilson's own Fourteen Points.

robbed Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powrs by entangling America in an international organization capable of authorizing collective force against an aggressor nation.

isolated the United States from postwar world affairs.

3.

4 points

The major problem for George Creel and his Committee on Public Information was that

he oversold Wilson's ideas and led Americans and the world to expect too much.

the public was skeptical of government propaganda.

relied too much on formal laws and police power to gain compliance with the war effort.

the courts curbed many of Creel's and the committee's war propaganda efforts on constitutional grounds.

4.

4 points

The Underwood Tariff Act and the Sixteenth Amendment reflected Wilson's progressive goals by

establishing the first graduated federal income tax.

creating an optional retirement system for workers.

guaranteeing equal treatment for men and women in employment.

using tariffs only for revenue and not to protect American industry from competition.

5.

4 points

In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised

not to sink passenger ships.

to halt all submarine warfare.

to halt its naval blockade of Britain.

not to sink passenger ships without warning.

6.

4 points

Most wartime mobilization agencies relied on _____ to prepare the economy for war.

congressional mobilization.

voluntary compliance.

court decisions.

business trade organizations,

7.

4 points

Congress's passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act demonstrated that the federal government

was beginning to address the issue of equal treatment of mothers in the workplace.

was prepared to take substantial steps toward federally funded child care.

supported pregnancy and maternal leave benefits for women.

was willing to benefit and support women primarily in their roles as mothers.

8.

1 point

none

9.

4 points

The United States declared war on Germany

after Mexico signed an alliance with Germany.

because it appeared France was about to surrender.

after German U-boats sank four unarmed American merchant vessels.

after final negotiations between Germany and the United States over restricted submarine warfare failed to come to an agreement.

10.

4 points

The United States' primary contributions to the Allied victory in Europe included all of the following except

munitions.

manpower.

credits and loans.

foodstuffs.

11.

4 points

When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from

Socialists.

the working class and former Progressive Bull Moose party members.

pro-war members of both parties.

new women voters.

12.

4 points

The Germans gained an immense military advantage in the first months of 1918 because

they had discovered how to use the tank and poison gas effectively.

the Austrian army was able to switch from the Italian front to the western front.

the Bolsheviks took Russia out of the war allowing German troops to move to the western front.

they had seized the two key strategic points of Verdun and Ypres.

13.

4 points

The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court was

Felix Frankfurter

Abraham Cahan

Bernard Baruch

Louis D. Brandeis

14.

4 points

The Second Battle of Marne was significant because it

marked a temporary reversal of the Allies progress in Europe that extended the war by, at least six months.

was the first time American troops saw action in France.

saw the first use of combat aircraft.

marked the beginning of a German withdrawal that was never reversed.

15.

4 points

The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to

issue paper money and increase or decreased the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates.

close weak banks.

permit the free coinage of silver.

take the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

16.

4 points

Due to the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the _____ "labor's Magna Charta."

Underwood Tariff Act

Wagner National Labor Relations Act

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Workman's Compensation Act

17.

4 points

The World War I military draft

generally worked fairly and effectively to provide military power.

caused widespread resistance and riots.

permitted men to purchase substitutes to go in their place.

included women as well as men.

18.

4 points

Opposition to the League of Nations senators during the Paris Peace Conference

gave Allied leaders in Paris a stronger bargaining position.

forced Wilson to drop his goal of establishing collective security internationally through the League of Naitons.

led to an abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine.

reinforced Germany's unwillingness to sign the treaty.

19.

4 points

The European allies were able to finance their costly war effort during the period of American neutrality mainly because of

income taxes.

tariffs.

sale of armaments to the Untied States and Russia.

American bankers most notably the Wall Street firm of J.P. Morgan and Company.

20.

4 points

Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to

blame no one for starting the war.

destroy the Austrian and Russian Empires.

force Germany to pay reparations for the war.

establish the League of Nations.

21.

4 points

As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungry as leaders of ____, while Russian and France were among the

Central Powers; Holy Alliance

Allies; Central Powers

Triple Alliance; Central Powers

Central Powers;Allies

22.

4 points

Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?

Lusitania

Arabic

Sussex

None of these were American ships.

23.

4 points

The two major battles of World War I in which United States forces engaged the Central Powers in 1918 were

Ypres and the Ardennes Forest.

Verdun and Somme.

Jutland and Trafalgar.

St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

24.

4 points

After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson

was assailed by ardent isolationists in America who despised the notion of international collective security and mocked the League of Nations.

was condemned by disillusioned American liberals who thought the treaty was too punitive on Germany.

failed to plan a shrewd strategy for gaining Senate ratification of the treaty.

was the subject of the rhetorical ire of German political leaders who felt the terms of the treaty were excessively punitive.

25.

4 points

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system through the great authority given to

the presidentially appointed Federal Reserve System.

regional Federal Reserve Banks.

banking shareholders.

the House and the Senate.

26.

4 points

Prosecutions under the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act can be characterized in the following ways except

Antiwar socialists and labor leaders were visibly targeted.

1,900 Americans were prosecuted under these laws.

the laws meant that any criticism of the government could be censored and published.

the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that they were unconstitutional violations of freedom of speech and association.