WWI Review

At the onset of WWI the US practiced a policy of

• colonialism

• neutrality

• isolation

• divide and conquer

What event prompted the US entry into WWI?

• The sinking of RMS Lusitania and loss of American lives

• The sinking of the US Maine

• The blitzkrieg of Britain

• the Treaty of Tordesille

What war tactic was Germany using which threatened the safe passage of ships in the Atlantic?

• embargos

• barracades

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• the use of hydrogen bombs

Once at war, how did society change in the US?

• all of the above

• Factories converted to making war equipment and supplies.

• Workers were needed to fill the factories.

• There was a great movement of people to the North.

Worried about attempts to stop the US involvement in WWI by immigrants living in America, the US passed which law?

• The Espionage and Sedition Acts

• the Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Zimmerman Act

• The Fourteen Points

Which socialist activist was brought to justice under the laws preventing people from interfering with the WWI war effort?

• Eugene Debs

• Woodrow Wilson

• Jane Addams

• WEB DuBois

What solution did Woodrow Wilson propose following WWI to unite the world?

• The United Nations

• The League of Nations

• NATO

• Tin Pan Alley

What was Wilson’s 14th Point?

• creating a world peace keeping body

• Readdressing colonization

• Unifying independent Poland

• Restrictions on Russia's boundaries

While the US did not pass Wilson’s 14 Points, what organization was eventually created to keep world peace?

• NATO

• The European Union

• The United Nations

• The Warsaw Pact

During his reelection campaign in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson used the slogan, “He kept us out of war.” In April of 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. What helped bring about this change?

• Russia signed a treaty of alliance with the Central Powers.

• Britain was invaded by nations of the Central Powers.

• Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare.

• Bolshevik forces increased their strength in Germany and Italy.