World War I - US

What was a major reason for United States entry into World War I?

• to overthrow the czarist government of Russia

• to keep Latin America from being attacked by Germany

• to maintain freedom of the seas

• to break up the colonial empires of the Allies

What was President Woodrow Wilson's stated policy toward the warring nations of Europe prior to United States entry into World War I?

• neutrality

• containment

• internationalism

• dollar diplomacy

Which action by Germany prompted the United States to enter World War I?

• attacking British shipping

• forming an alliance with Austria-Hungary

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• invading France

Base your answer to question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal or alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona....

– Zimmerman telegram, 1917

The disclosure of this document contributed to

• a declaration of war against Mexico

• the entry of the United States into World War I

• the passage of the Treaty of Versailles

• a restriction on immigration from Latin America

During World War I, what was President Woodrow Wilson's purpose in outlining the Fourteen Points?

• asking Congress for additional funding for the war effort

• suggesting a peace plan to prevent future wars

• proposing war crimes trials for leaders of enemy nations

• calling for military alliances against aggressor nations

Publication of this telegram in United States newspapers helped to

• reelect Woodrow Wilson as president

• convince the American public to support entrance into World War I

• encourage Congress to pass neutrality legislation

• grant statehood to Arizona and New Mexico

This telegram was part of an effort to

• form an alliance between Germany and the United States

• convince several western states to secede from the United States

• bring Mexico into World War I on the side of Great Britain and France

• enlist Mexican support for Germany if the United States declared war

Base your answer to this question on the statement below and on your knowledge of social studies.

. . . With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical 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 he in fact nothing less than war against the government and.people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it, and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war. . .

Which presidential action is the focus of this statement?

• William McKinley's request for war in 1898

• Theodore Roosevelt's support for the Panamanian revolt in 1903

• William Howard Taft's decision to send troops to Latin America in 1912

• Woodrow Wilson's response to unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917

President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of strict neutrality during the early years of World War I was challenged by

• German violations of freedom of the seas

• British disrespect for the Roosevelt corollary

• attacks by Mexicans on United States border towns

• the refusal of the League of Nations to supply peacekeepers

What was the main objective of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?

• establish a military alliance with European

  nations

• punish Germany for causing World War I

• provide for a just and lasting peace

• encourage open immigration in industrial

  nations