World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914-1920

To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the

• Committee on Public Information

• League of Nations

• National War Labor Board

• War Industries Board

World War I was the first war in which

• African American soldiers were not segregated from white soldiers.

• the government officially imposed conscription.

• the military drafted men.

• women officially served in the armed forces.

The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of

• African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities.

• European immigrants fleeing to the United States to escape the war in Europe.

• French refugees fleeing to Britain ahead of the German onslaught.

• Mexicans fleeing to the American Southwest to escape political turmoil.

In 1908 the Serbs became furious when

• a Slav assassinated their leader.

• Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia.

• Austria-Hungary refused them independence.

• the Ottoman Empire refused them independence.

According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by

• age

• local draft boards

• lottery

• military headquarters

“Selling” the war to the American people was the task of

• J. Edgar Hoover.

• the Committee on Public Information.

• the War Industries Board.

• the War Propaganda Board.

Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by

• the Committee on Public Information.

• the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

• the Palmer Raids.

• the Red Scare.

The British entered World War I when

• Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia.

• Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.

• German troops crossed into Belgium.

• Germany sank the Lusitania.

What was the only group of women in the military sent overseas in World War I?

• army nurses

• clerical workers

• pilots

• volunteers

During World War I, a group called the ____________________ took power in Russia and established a Communist government

• Bolsheviks

• Bosnians

• Serbs

• Slovenes