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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Zimmerman note involved a proposed secret agreement between | Germany and Mexico |
| The US declared war on Germany | after German U-Boats sank four unarmed us merchant vessels |
| Of WW's 14 points, the one that he hoped would provide a system of collective security was | League of Nations |
| The major problem for George Creel and his committee on Public Information was that | he oversold Wilson's ideals and led the world to expect too much |
| Two constitutional amendments adopted in part because of because of wartime influence were the 18th, which dealt with ________, and the 19th, whose subject was ________. | Prohibition; woman suffrage |
| As a result of their work supporting the war effort, women | finally received the right to vote |
| During WWI, the government's treatment of labor could be best described as | fair |
| The strikes and sabotage of the Industrial Workers of the World during WWI were | the result of some of the worst working conditions in the country |
| During World War I the U.S. used naval vessels | made from concrete |
| When the U.S. entered WWI in 1917, most Americans did not believe that | it would be necessary to send a large American army to Europe |
| Those who protested conscription during World War I did so because | they disliked the idea of compelling a person to serve |
| During WWI, American troops fought in all of the following countries except | Czechoslovakia |
| The first significant engagement of American troops in a European battle in American history came in the spring of 1918 | Chateau-Thierry |
| The Second Battle of the Marne was significant because it | marked the beginning of a German withdrawal that was never reversed |
| As a condition of ending World War I, Woodrow Wilson demanded that | the German Kaiser be forced from power |
| The Germans were eventually demoralized by | the U.S.' troop reserves |
| Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace conference was to | establish the League of Nations |
| After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Wilson | was condemned by both disillusioned liberals and frustrated imperialists |
| In the U.S., the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of Versailles was | Article X |
| The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except | opposition to prohibition |
| Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of | the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans |
| Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from | eastern city dwellers |
| The first Polish immigrants to come to America arrived | at Jamestown in 1608 |
| Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources except | Catholic missionaries |
| Most Americans assumed that prohibition | would be permanent |
| The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was | Chicago |
| After the Scopes "Monkey Trial," | fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life |
| Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton | believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time |
| The prosperity that developed in the 1920s | was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt |
| The first "talkie" motion picture was | The Jazz Singer |
| The 1920 census revealed that for the first time most | Americans lived in cities |
| Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of | birth control |
| To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to | the theories of Sigmund Freud |
| Match each literary figure below with the correct work | Fitz-Gatsby; Lewis-Main Street; Hemingway-The Sun Also Rises; Faulkner-The Sound and the Fury |
| The nonbusiness group that realized the most significant, lasting gains from World War I was | Veterans |
| The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry |
| During the 1930s, | The national debt doubled |
| Many economists believed that the New Deal | Could have cured the ills of the depression by engaging in greater deficit spending |
| Match each civilian administrator below with the World War I mobilization agency that he directed. | A. George Creel 1. War Industries Board B. Herbert Hoover 2. Committee on Public Information C. Bernard Baruch 3. Food Administration D. William H. Taft 4. National War Labor Board a) A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4 |
| Generally the immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated against | southern and eastern Europeans |
| The Red Scare or 1919-20 was provoked by | the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution |
| Republican economic policies under Warren G Harding | hoped to encourage the government to guide business along the path to profits |
| Match: Wagner-National Labor; Hopkins-Works Progress Administration; Ikes-Public Works Admin; Perkins-Department of Labor | ------ |
| The National Recovery Act began to fail because | it required too much self sacrifice on the part of individual labor and the public |
| The first Agricultural Adjustment Act raised the money paid to farmers not to grow crops by | taxing processors of farm products |
| The AAA proposed to solve the farm problem by | reducing agricultural production |
| In 1935 president Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to | move farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl to better lands |
| Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to | California |
| The Federal Securities Act aimed to | force stock promoters to give investors information regarding the soundness of their stocks |
| On the following the least related is | the securities and exchange commission |
| New Dealers argued that their multifront war on the depression primarily sought to | provide relief |
| The Tennessee Valley Authority drew criticism because it | aroused fears of creeping socialism |
| The most controversial aspect of the TVA was its plans concerning | electrical power |
| The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following except | health care for the poor |
| The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trail blazing law that | gave labor the right to bargain collectively |
| The primary interest of the cong. of ind. org. was | the organization of all workers with and ind. |
| President Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court | more sympathetic to new deal programs |
| After FDR's failed attempt to pack the supreme court | the court began to support New Deal programs |
| As a result of the 1937 Roosevelt recession... | planned deficit spending economics |
| FDR's New Deal programs | did not end the depression |
| The strikes and sabotage of the Industrial Workers of the WWI were | the result of some of the worst working conditions in the country |
| The 1932 Democratic platform called for | repeal of prohibition |
| Which of the following descriptive attributes is least characteristic of president Coolidge | wordiness |
| Which of the following splits did not affect the Democratic party in 1924 | Urbanites vs. Suburbanites |
| After the initial shock of the Harding scandals, many Americans reacted by | excusing some of the wrongdoers on the grounds that "they had gotten away with it" |
| Because the US raised tariffs in the 1920s | all of these |
| The __________ was an "alphabetical agency" set up under Hoover's administration to bring the government into the antidepression effort | Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) |
| The RFC was established to | make loans to businesses |
| The Progressive party did not do well in the 1924 election because | too many people shared in prosperity to care about reform |
| In 1924 the Democratic party convention came within a single vote of adopting a resolution condemning | the KKK |
| In the 1920s the Fordney-McCumber Tariff __________ tariff rates and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff __________ tariff rates, so that by 1930 the tariff rates had been substantially __________ from the opening of the decade. | raised, raised, raised |
| The major political scandal of Harding's administration resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of his secretary of | the interior |
| One of Hoover's chief strengths was his | talent for administration |
| The Teapot Dome scandal involved the mishandling of | naval oil reserves. |
| President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended b doing all of the following except | providing direct aid to the people. |
| Franklin Roosevelt's _______________ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will | Affliction with infantile paralysis |
| The most vigorous "champion of the dispossessed"—that is, the poor and minorities—in Roosevelt administration circles was | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Match each New Deal critic below with the "cause" or slogan that he promoted | A. Father Coughlin 1. "social justice" B. Huey Long 2. "every man a king" C. Francis Townsend 3. "a holy crusade for liberty" D. Herbert Hoover 4. old-age pensions a) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3 |
| 1932 FDR would attack depression by | experimenting with programs |
| Roosevelt's chief administrator of relief was | Harry Hopkins |
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