USHC 5.5 POST WW1

USHC 5.5 POST WW1

Multiple Choice

What belief was central to President Wilson's proposal of the Fourteen Points?

• The world needed a way to establish a just and lasting peace.

• Nations that won the war should take over the territory of the losers.

• International trade agreements should favor the United States.

• American isolation was necessary to end the conflict in Europe.

Multiple Choice

Who had to pay the $33 billion in reparations to the Allies after World War I?

• Russia

• Serbia

• Germany

• Austria

Multiple Choice

Many groups of people who wanted their own country were able to get one as a part of the Treaty of Versailles. What was a major problem with many of those nations?

• So many new nations were created that international organizations couldn’t keep up with them all.

• Some old nations like Germany and Russia

  disappeared from the map.

• Their borders were poorly drawn and

  would result in conflict later.

• The rulers were from the old imperialist countries.

Multiple Choice

Why did the U.S. Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I?

• to prevent the U.S. from getting involved in foreign conflicts

• to reduce the size and influence of the American military

• to protest the treatment of Germany in the treaty

• to reduce the United States' dependence on foreign trade

Multiple Choice

Why did many Americans agree with the Republican slogan of a “return to normalcy?”

• Reparations would only be paid if everyone went back to the way it was before the war.

• The Allies wanted the United States to help them fight against Russia.

• The League of Nations was going to take

  control of every country.

• The violence of World War I convinced them that making the world safe for democracy had too high of a price.

Multiple Choice

How did the United States help Germany pay the war reparations?

• using the Dawes and Young Plans to give Germany loans

• by convincing England and France to lower the amount owed to them

• the United States paid half of the amount for them

• None of these options

Multiple Choice

What foreign policy term is most associated with the 1920s and 30s?

• brinkmanship

• containment

• imperialism

• isolationism