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WorksheetsWorld War I and Its Aftermath Quiz
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Match each item with the correct statement below: goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies.
contraband
propaganda
Lusitania
Committee on Public Information
Match each item with the correct statement below: information designed to influence opinion.
contraband
propaganda
Lusitania
Committee on Public Information
Match each item with the correct statement below: British ship sunk by Germany, killing over 1,000 passengers.
contraband
propaganda
Lusitania
Committee on Public Information
Match each item with the correct statement below: gave patriotic speeches urging support of war effort.
Four-Minute Men
Committee on Public Information
National War Labor Board
War Industries Board
Match each item with the correct statement below: Bosnian revolutionary behind assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Gavrilo Princip
Vladimir Lenin
Ferdinand Foch
Liberty Bonds
Match each item with the correct statement below: method of loaning money to the government to pay for war.
Liberty Bonds
War Industries Board
Committee on Public Information
National War Labor Board
Match each item with the correct statement below: spying to acquire government secrets.
espionage
propaganda
contraband
Liberty Bonds
Match each item with the correct statement below: supreme commander of the Allied forces.
Ferdinand Foch
Vladimir Lenin
Gavrilo Princip
Liberty Bonds
Match each item with the correct statement below: Bolshevik leader.
Vladimir Lenin
Ferdinand Foch
Gavrilo Princip
Liberty Bonds
Match each item with the correct statement below: coordinated the production of war materials.
War Industries Board
Committee on Public Information
National War Labor Board
Liberty Bonds
To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the:
League of Nations
War Industries Board
Committee on Public Information
National War Labor Board
World War I was the first war in which African American soldiers were not segregated from white soldiers.
True
False
The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities.
True
False
After the start of WWI, the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia became the Allied Powers.
True
False
According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by lottery.
True
False
Selling the war to the American people was the task of the Committee on Public Information.
True
False
Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
True
False
During World War I, a group called the Bolsheviks established a Communist government.
True
False
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.
True
False
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.
True
False
In his Fourteen Points, President Woodrow Wilson called for the creation of a 'general association of nations' known as the League of Nations.
True
False
To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced daylight saving time.
True
False
What caused rapid inflation in the U.S. after the war ended?
The U.S. had to compete with formal allies Britain and France for trade after the war.
Jobs were scarce, and companies that were forced to keep prices low during the war raised them dramatically.
Women refused to give up their positions in factories, leaving many men jobless.
War production shut down, allowing companies to compete for natural resources that were previously rationed.
He won the Presidential Election of 1920, calling for a 'return to normalcy' for the United States.
Woodrow Wilson
James Cox
Warren G. Harding
Eugene V. Debs
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.
True
False
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.
True
False
