WWI Notes and Reading Quiz

What triggered WWI?

• The Kaiser’s letter to Francis Joseph

• Serbia’s desire to build a South Slav empire

• Russia’s mobilization of military forces

• The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Why did President Wilson threaten to cut off diplomatic relations with Germany in 1915?

• The Germans had threatened to declare war on the US

• A German U-boat had sunk the Lusitania, killing 128 Americans

• Germany had confiscated contraband from American soldiers

• A German U-boat had not given sufficient warning that it would attack the Lusitania

Who did Germany ask to attack the US in the Zimmerman Telegram?

• Canada

• Japan

• Mexico

• Spain

What was the name of Wilson's proposed international peace keeping body?

• United Nations
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• League of Nations
• Warsaw Pact

Which was NOT a part of Wilson's 14 Points?

• Eliminating Militraism
• Eliminating Imperialism
• Punishing Germany
• Creating an international peace keeping organization

The Great Migration that took place between 1915 and 1930 refers to

• workers who left the northeast for the south

• Native American Indians who left their reservations

• middle-class whites who left cities to settle in the suburbs

• African Americans who left the rural south for northern cities

Identify the piece of legislation:

"shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States...shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both"

• The Pendleton Act

• The Sherman-Antitrust Act

• The Sedition Act

• The Hepburn Act

What were both the Espionage and Sedition Acts designed to accomplish?

• Provide plans for rebuilding Germany after the war

• Help the British and French economies during the war

• Limit opposition to the war in the United States

• Protect the

  rights of German Americans

Which of the following most accurately explains how the United States government mobilized the economic power of the United States?

• The Committee on Public Information issued propaganda to encourage pro-war sentiment in the nation

• The government used the Sedition Act to limit anti-war propaganda

• The War Industries Board coordinated the production of war-time goods necessary to win the conflict

• The government passed the Selective Service Act to force men to register for the draft

Who did president Wilson appoint as the leader of the "Clean Plate movement" to head the Food Administration during the war?

• John Jay

• Edger Hoover

• Herbert Hoover

• William Dillon