5.3 Reading Quiz

What did General Pershing want the American Expeditionary Forces to do during World War I?

• to strengthen the Allies by joining French forces

• to remain independent of other Allied forces

• to retreat back along the Western Front due to poor conditions

• to opt out of the Battle of Argonne Forest due to severe shortages in supplies

Why was the Battle of Argonne Forest significant?

• The Allied victory led to an armistice on November 11^th 1918.

• U.S. forces didn’t fight because of a shortage in supplies.

• U.S. forces lost due to difficult fighting in a thick and unfamiliar forest.

• German forces won due to intelligence they received about American troop movements.

Why did Allied leaders reject many of President Wilson's ideas at the Paris Peace Conference?

• The Allied leaders hoped to create the United Nations, which would be stronger than Wilson's League of Nations.

• The Allied leaders considered Wilson's demands for reparations from Germany to be too harsh.

• The Allied leaders did not support Wilson's idea of "peace without victory" and wanted to weaken Germany.

• The Allied leaders were suspicious of Wilson's ambitions and feared that the United States was becoming too powerful.

Why did the "reservationists" oppose Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles?

• They did not believe that the United States should be involved in world politics.

• They objected to forming alliances between the United States and European nations.

• They feared that it could lead the United States into war without the consent of Congress.

• They did not believe that the United States was capable of defending European powers against their enemies.

How did the Fourteen Points address the policy of isolationism?

• It rejected isolationism in favor of more open diplomacy.

• It rejected isolationism and demanded that the United States seek territorial expansion.

• It supported isolationism and urged all nations to take responsibility for their own defense by building large stockpiles of weaponry.

• It supported isolationism in order to prevent future world conflicts.