Chapter 6

Test Review

Question

In 1914 which country had the smallest number of troops when entering World War I?

Answer

• The United States

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• What Nations were part of the Triple Alliance?

Answer

• Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

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• The invasion of what country helped convince and influence America public opinion to enter World War I?

Answer

• The invasion of Belgium

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• Congress passed which acts to prepare Americans for the possibility of U.S. involvement in World War Iand in what year did they do this?

Answer

• The National Defense Act and the Naval Construction Act in 1916?

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• What major event shocked the American people and led Wilson to no longer call for peace?

Answer

• Exposure of the Zimmerman Note.

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• What are the three major events that helped to lead America into World War I?...Hint two of the three are answers you have already given in this game.

Answer

• The invasion of Belgium, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the Zimmermann note.

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• Was the Committee on Public Information for or against American involvement in World War I?

Answer

They specifically promoted support for the war among the American people and promoted American involvement.

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• Which congressional Act passed in 1918 limited freedom of speech?

Answer

• The Sedition Act of 1918

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• How did World War I contribute to the African American Great Migration?

Answer

• It created jobs in the North.

Question: Daily Double

• What did American woman's support of World War I help women to achieve?...Hint what they achieve was a congressional Act it was also an Amendment that was passed in 1920 pertaining to women what did that Amendment help women to get?

Answer

• Universal Suffrage

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• How many American solders served in combat situations during World War I.

Answer

• 1.3 million

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• President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations. What was President Wilson hopes for the League of nations what did he want to see get done as a result of the create of this League?

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• He hoped to create a world organization where countries could gather and resolve their disagreements peacefully.

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• “peace without victory”…What did president Wilson mean when he uttered this phrase?

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• that the terms of peace should not punish the defeated nations?...This is why World War II Started because this idea was not followed.

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• Which group believed the language of Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles contradicted the power of Congress to declare war?

Answer

• reservationists

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• What kept American from becoming a member of the League of Nations.

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• Woodrow Wilson and his opponents refused to compromise on the wording of the Treaty of Versailles.

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• Why was the League of Nations so ineffective.

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• This was a result of the U.S. Senate’s refusal to approve the Treaty of Versailles.

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• Falling food prices after the war made it hard for what group of people?

Answer

Farmers

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After World War one who became the new economic world leader and started to become a world super power?

Answer

• The United States

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• The dependence of European nations on loans from the United States was a direct result of what conflict?

Answer

• World War I

Question: Daily Double

• Between which two years was the change in the number of influenza deaths most significant?

Answer

• 1917 and 1918