2025 Honors Final Exam Study Guide Part 2

What legislation promised that the US would grant Cuba independence rather than annex it after the Spanish American War?

• Teller Amendment

• Platt Amendment

• Geneva Accords

• Versailles Peace Treaty

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Spanish American War?

• attack on US ships in Manila

• Cuban rebels as well as women and children being put in re-concentration camps

• yellow journalism

• economic interests

Which items below were conditions of the Platt Amendment in Cuba after the Spanish were defeated?

• a U.S. naval base was to be established at Guantanamo Bay

• the U.S. would assume complete political control of Cuba

• U.S. could interfere whenever it saw fit in Cuban affairs

• Cuba would only be allowed to trade with the U.S.

What prompted the US to react against re-concentration camps in Cuba?

• Reports of cruel treatment of Cubans

• Cuban missile threat

• US own economic interests

• Invitation by Spanish government

The Zimmerman telegram was an attempt by Germany to have which country declare war on the United States to keep prevent from the United States from helping the allies in Europe?

• Mexico

• Canada

• Brazil

• Cuba

“With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the…United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it….Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments…not by the will of their people. "

In the excerpt above, President Wilson signaled a willingness to abandon which long-held American policy?

• Overseas expansionism

• Isolationism/Non-involvement in European affairs

• Advancing democratic ideals

• The expansion of American culture and norms to other nations

The image above is an excellent representation of:

• the ability of the League of Nations to handle foreign disputes

• the Senate's fear of getting involved in foreign affairs if it joined the League of Nations

• the Senate's reasoning for approving the US joining the League of Nations

• the need for a leader in the League of Nations

Which of these agreements was not a part of the Versailles Treaty after WWI?

• Establishment of the UN

• Redrawing of borders in Europe

• Germany's military restrictions

• Creation of the League of Nations

What event caused the US to declare war on Japan and subsequently Germany?

• Zimmerman telegram

• bombing of Pearl Harbor

• sinking of the USS Maine

• battle of Midway

The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet. With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. The above is an excerpt from a White House press release in regards to...

• dropping the atomic bomb on Iwo Jima

• dropping the atomic bomb on Stalingrad

• dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

• dropping the atomic bomb on Normandy beach