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World War I and Its Aftermath Quiz

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match each item with the correct statement below: goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies.

a)

contraband

b)

propaganda

c)

Lusitania

d)

Committee on Public Information

2.

Match each item with the correct statement below: information designed to influence opinion.

a)

contraband

b)

propaganda

c)

Lusitania

d)

Committee on Public Information

3.

Match each item with the correct statement below: British ship sunk by Germany, killing over 1,000 passengers.

a)

contraband

b)

propaganda

c)

Lusitania

d)

Committee on Public Information

4.

Match each item with the correct statement below: gave patriotic speeches urging support of war effort.

a)

Four-Minute Men

b)

Committee on Public Information

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

War Industries Board

5.

Match each item with the correct statement below: Bosnian revolutionary behind assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

a)

Gavrilo Princip

b)

Vladimir Lenin

c)

Ferdinand Foch

d)

Liberty Bonds

6.

Match each item with the correct statement below: method of loaning money to the government to pay for war.

a)

Liberty Bonds

b)

War Industries Board

c)

Committee on Public Information

d)

National War Labor Board

7.

Match each item with the correct statement below: spying to acquire government secrets.

a)

espionage

b)

propaganda

c)

contraband

d)

Liberty Bonds

8.

Match each item with the correct statement below: supreme commander of the Allied forces.

a)

Ferdinand Foch

b)

Vladimir Lenin

c)

Gavrilo Princip

d)

Liberty Bonds

9.

Match each item with the correct statement below: Bolshevik leader.

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Ferdinand Foch

c)

Gavrilo Princip

d)

Liberty Bonds

10.

Match each item with the correct statement below: coordinated the production of war materials.

a)

War Industries Board

b)

Committee on Public Information

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

Liberty Bonds

11.

To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the:

a)

League of Nations

b)

War Industries Board

c)

Committee on Public Information

d)

National War Labor Board

12.

World War I was the first war in which African American soldiers were not segregated from white soldiers.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

After the start of WWI, the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia became the Allied Powers.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by lottery.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Selling the war to the American people was the task of the Committee on Public Information.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

During World War I, a group called the Bolsheviks established a Communist government.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The Treaty of Versailles gave Germany the blame for WWI, and directed it to pay reparations to the Allies and to reduce its military after the war.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The issue of Germany attacking civilian ships reached a crisis on May 7, 1915, when a submerged German submarine fired on the British passenger liner Lusitania.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

In his Fourteen Points, President Woodrow Wilson called for the creation of a 'general association of nations' known as the League of Nations.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced daylight saving time.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

What caused rapid inflation in the U.S. after the war ended?

a)

The U.S. had to compete with formal allies Britain and France for trade after the war.

b)

Jobs were scarce, and companies that were forced to keep prices low during the war raised them dramatically.

c)

Women refused to give up their positions in factories, leaving many men jobless.

d)

War production shut down, allowing companies to compete for natural resources that were previously rationed.

24.

He won the Presidential Election of 1920, calling for a 'return to normalcy' for the United States.

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

James Cox

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Eugene V. Debs

25.

A series of bombings in 1919 sparked the Red Scare and a series of raids on suspected Communists organized by U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

After World War I ended, the U.S. economy slowed down and there was a sharp rise in the cost of living due to inflation and a lack of jobs.

a)

True

b)

False