US5 - 1920s Jazz Era

How had the United States' role changed on the world stage after World War I?

• from being in debt to others to being the most significant economic power

• from being the significant economic power to becoming the strongest nation in the world

• from being the economic power to being in debt to others

• from being the world power to being on the same footing as other countries

Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes tried to use the United States economic power to

• promote peace

• intimidate enemies

• purchase land

• fund colonial efforts

After World War I, the majority of Americans who were tired of hostilities and danger of politics in Europe

• favored isolationism

• blamed and demanded reparations from Germany

• rebuilt their cities ravaged from the war rather than focusing on their own military

• favored nationalism

Isolationism in the US is the idea that the country would be

• safer and more prosperous if it stayed out of world affairs.

• able to intimidate other countries with superior military and technology

• better off because they wouldn't have to deal with immigrants

• all options are true

Most people believed the US had become isolationist due to all of the following EXCEPT:

• didn’t ratify the Treaty of Versailles

• didn't join the League of Nations

• refused to join the World Court of 1921

• didn't ratify the Jim Crow Laws

• all options are true

Ultimately, when determining if the United States were truly isolationist in the 1920s, it was

• not true, we were too dependent on being part of the world economy

• not true, in fact we went to war immediately against Spain in the Spanish-American War

• true, we absolutely did no business with any country and entered a golden age

• true, we became isolationist and had been so until World War II

Instead of relying on the League of Nations for world peace, the US relied on which two of these to promote peace?

• economic policies

• arms control agreements

• military presence worldwide

• the Treaty of Versailles

America’s former allies had difficulty paying war debts to the US because

• tariffs were kept high on foreign trade

• the United States had asked for too much for reparations

• the United States were solely responsible for the victory in Europe

• despite World War I ending, military conflict was still rampant in Europe

Despite the debts accrued by nations that had been involved in World War I, world powers still participated in ______________________ immediately after the war.

• a naval arms race

• a nuclear arms race

• a worldwide arm conflict centered mostly in the South Pacific Region

• disarmament of forces

Representatives from major powers across the world were invited to Washington D.C. to the Washington Conference to discuss ______________________.

• disarmament

• forgiving Germany's war debt

• the formation of new alliances

• the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles