World War I and the 1920s Quiz

The Selective Service Act was a means of

• getting money to support the war effort.

• getting women to take over jobs formerly done by men.

• drafting young men for the military forces.

• finding jobs for men after they left military service.

The United States was able to loan more than $10 billion to the Allies, thanks to

• the War Trade Board.

• the Eighteenth Amendment.

• Liberty Bonds.

• "dollar-a-year" men and women.

Which best describes the Great Migration?

• the increase in European immigration during World War I

• the movement of African Americans to northern cities

• the movement of women into jobs formerly held by men

• the progress of Allied troops across France

Under the terms of the Versailles treaty, Germany had to

• give its colonies independence.

• pay reparations to the Allies.

• break up Czechoslovakia.

• give its tanks and artillery to France.

Instead of making cars, the Ford Motor Company converted to making ____________ during World War 1.

• warships.

• artillery.

• bombers.

• tanks.

An underlying cause of World War I was

• the ongoing dispute over the convoy system.

• the web of alliances European nations created for their defense.

• an alliance between the autocratic rulers of Germany and Russia.

• American insistence on neutrality.

· Tanks · Machine guns · Poison gas · Flamethrowers · Airplanes These new military technologies resulted in a huge expansion of the military tactic known as trench warfare and made _______ the most deadly war up to that point in history.

• Vietnam

• World War I

• Korean War

• World War II

Black Americans migrated north in the early 1900s mainly because of

• offers of free land.

• the climate.

• an industrial boom.

• a widespread business slowdown.

Much of Europe was drawn into World War I because of

• the Schlieffen Plan.

• a stalemate near the river Marne in France.

• a network of alliances.

• the militarism of the United States.

Wilson's goal for the League of Nations was

• worldwide agricultural aid.

• access to world trade for all nations.

• equality of arms for all nations.

• international security and stability.