Unit 4 - Topic 2 (World War I) Pre-assessment

A message sent by Germany to Mexico proposing a German Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if US entered the war.

• Brown Note

• Jordan Note

• Zimmerman Note

• Wilson Note

Select THREE of the following contributing factors to the United States entering World War I.

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Militarism

• Zimmerman Note

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Made it illegal to spy or interfere with government foreign policy such as the military draft.

• Espionage Act

• Sedition Act

• Military Draft Act

• No Spy Act

An American Socialist distributes pamphlets discouraging young men from signing up for the draft during WW1.

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brandenburg v. Ohio

• McDonald v. Chicago

• Schenck v. United States

During the Great Migration, some African Americans chose to move North and to the Midwest for several reasons. Which of the following was most likely NOT a reason that they would have migrated? 

• The hope for a better job.
• The desire to escape Jim Crow Laws.
• The cotton crop failed and many lost their jobs.
• They wanted to move to a place with a better climate.

The Great Migration refers to the shift of the African­American  population from the

• rural South to the rural North
• rural North to the rural South
• urban South to the urban North
• rural South to the urban North

What was the purpose of the Fourteen Points?

• To outline a strategy to end the war

• To set goals the United State wanted to achieve by fighting in the war

• To prepare way to maintain peace after the war

• All of the above

What group did the Fourteen Points want to create to maintain peace and protect all countries?

• Peace Corps

• League of Nations

• NATO

• United Nations

Which of the following is a reason for the weakness of the League of Nations?

• All countries can veto

• The member states prefer to use conflict to solve the problems among countries

• The bigger powers put their own interests above the League's and were not willing to take harsher stand against aggressor

• Soviet Union and Germany were creating troubles in the League of Nations

Which of the following is a true statement about American involvement in the League of Nations?

• President Woodrow Wilson refused to allow the U.S. to join the League of Nations
• The Supreme Court ruled that joining the League of Nations would violate the U.S. Constitution 
• Congress voted to keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations
• In the election of 1920, American voters voted to keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations