Standard Four: Part Two

According to the chart, U.S. exports increased by nearly 1 billion dollars at the same time that

• Panama declared independence from Columbia.

• France signed a peace treaty with the Axis Powers.

• the United States began selling arms to the Allied Powers.

• Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers.

What event caused Americans to become outraged against Germany and the Central Powers?

• building the Panama Canal

• the Spanish-American War

• the sinking of the Lusitania

• the sinking of the Titanic

Which action belongs in the empty box as it relates to WWI?

• The U.S. Senate approves a military alliance with Great Britain.

• The U.S. Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.

• The U.S. Senate fails to pass the Selective Service Act.

• The U.S. Senate authorize the use of troops in Europe.

*no secret treaties

*freedom of the seas

*more free trade

*reduction of arms

*less colonialism

*League of Nations to promote peace

What is another name for this plan for peace? Hint: created by Woodrow Wilson

• Fourteen Points
• Munich Agreement
• Pact of Paris
• Treaty of Versailles

Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?

• A famous jazz band from the 1920s
• A group of civil rights activists
• an African American infantry regiment that fought in World War I

• an African American baseball team from the 1940s

What countries made up the Triple Entente, later known as the Allies - the "good guys" - of WWI?

• France, Britain, Russia, Italy and eventually the USA

• Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

What countries made up the Triple Alliance, later known as the Central Powers, of WWI?

• France, Britain, Russia, Italy and eventually the USA

• Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

How did America support the Allies while still remaining neutral?

• they imposed naval blockades on each other

• they maintained power of Latin America

• they provided war materials to allied forces

When World War I began, the official United States policy was

• to enter on the side of the Allied Powers.

• the enter on the side of the Central Powers.

• to remain militarily and politically neutral.

• to support the Central Powers by providing war materials.

Since the Allies rejected Wilson's Fourteen Points Peace Plan, which four countries met at the Palace of Versailles to sign the Treaty of Versailles?

• United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy
• Japan, China, Brazil, Canada
• Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece
• Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia