AMH UNIT 2b

What did headlines like this result in?

• it helped cause the USA to enter WW1 by declaring war on Germany

• it helped cause the USA to join the Central Powers in fear of the Zimmermann alliance

• it helped cause the USA to begin utilizing unrestricted sub warfare tactics of its own

• it helped cause the USA to enter WW1 by declaring war on Japan

What was the purpose?

• to convince Americans to help financially support the war effort

• to recruit young American men to enlist in the military

• to encourage American women to work in war factories

• to increase the production of munitions and food for the war effort

What was the impact of the 19th Amendment?

• granted suffrage to women

• granted suffrage to black men

• desegregated all war factories

• guaranteed free speech in wartime

What would NOT be supported by this picture?

• decreased overseas demand for US products

• prices of products skyrocketed

• unemployment dropped dramatically

• increased factory production nationwide

How did the Senate react to the Treaty of Versailles, AND why?

• they rejected it because isolationists feared the League of Nations would drag us into another war

• they rejected it because they objected to the extreme size of the reparations that the treaty required Germany to pay

• they approved of it and ratified it because they wanted to see the war come to a final conclusion

• they approved of it and ratified it because they knew that the United States would benefit financially after the war ended

What does this picture show about the Treaty of Versailles?

• It established the League of Nations and decreased the chances of another war

• It devastated the German economy because of the war reparations

• It caused massive resentment in Germany, contributing to the rise of the Nazis

• It officially ended the First World War, nearly five years after it had begun

According to this cartoon, what was the major cause of WWI?

• Alliance system

• Militarism

• Hitler attacking Poland

• Imperialism

Read the document and answer the question that follows:

“With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragic character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States….”

Source: President Woodrow Wilson, Address to Congress, April 2, 1917

The statement above was primarily the result of which of the following?

• Russia’s sudden withdrawal from WW1 after negotiating a separate peace with Germany in 1917

• Explosion and sinking of the American warship U.S.S. Maine while stationed off the coast of Cuba

• Germany's violation of the Sussex Pledge and sending of the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico

• Repeated use by Nazi Germany of unrestricted submarine warfare tactics against American ships

What was the main cause of the problems suffered by farmers after the post-WW1 economic demobilization?

• falling crop prices due to postwar overproduction

• excessive demand for US farm products

• high production costs due to increased fertilizer and shipping prices

• increasing unemployment because of the return of WW1 veterans

Which of the following post-WW1 American attitudes was demonstrated by BOTH the rise of the Ku Klux Klan AND the Sacco & Vanzetti trial?

• nativism

• isolationism

• anti-communism

• fear of radical ideas