A) He pledged never again to seek additional territory by conquest.
B) He sent marines to Chile to punish the Sandinistas for an attack on an American-owned plantation.
C) He sent marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to restore stability and protect American investments.
D) He wanted to protect U.S. investments in Mexico.
E) He used American troops to force a Mexican leader to abdicate.
G) B) and D)
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A) Women served in the AEF.
B) A million women worked in industry during the years 1917-1918.
C) Millions of women entered the work force for the first time.
D) A constitutional amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote.
E) Women moved into better paying jobs.
G) All of the above
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A) attempt on the part of Woodrow Wilson to teach Mexico to behave properly.
B) understanding between Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan on the regulation of the trusts.
C) agreement between the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany on the territorial integrity of China.
D) agreement between Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan over the formulation of foreign policy.
E) arrangement in which Japan agreed to end the emigration of Japanese laborers to the United States.
G) B) and E)
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A) signed a treaty with Colombia.
B) seized Panama.
C) helped facilitate a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia and then negotiated a treaty to lease a strip of territory.
D) purchased the completed canal from the French company.
E) paid Columbia $25 million for a ten-mile wide strip of land in its province of Panama.
G) C) and D)
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A) provide religious services to soldiers in training.
B) supervise the construction and maintenance of military training camps.
C) provide educational and patriotic literature to soldiers.
D) wage a campaign against alcohol use and immoral behavior among American soldiers in World War I.
E) persuade Americans to support their local military camps.
G) A) and B)
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A) busting more trusts during the war years than in the preceding dozen years.
B) deregulating most of the transportation and communications industries.
C) operating the railroads and creating five thousand government agencies to supervise home-front activities.
D) proclaiming that the war for democracy would be won by showing the world that private industry could do the job without regulation.
E) imposing many new regulations on business and industry but supervised them with a minimum of bureaucracy.
G) B) and D)
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A) was established by Woodrow Wilson to ensure that the American people had access to the full truth about the war.
B) used propaganda to spread the U.S. government's official version of the war.
C) was a propaganda agency secretly sponsored by the German foreign ministry.
D) worked to drum up support for the election of Republican presidential candidate George Creel.
E) attempted to turn public opinion against immigrants by painting them as agents of foreign revolution.
G) B) and D)
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A) Black soldiers found the French even more racist than American whites were.
B) Black soldiers served in segregated units.
C) Blacks found it impossible to get jobs in northern industry.
D) There was a mass movement of blacks from northern cities to southern farms.
E) Blacks followed the advice of Booker T. Washington to "put down their buckets where they were," and for that reason few moved north.
G) B) and E)
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A) Wilson decided to go to the conference personally.
B) The Democrats lost control of Congress in the November elections.
C) Wilson failed to appoint any prominent Republicans to the peace commission.
D) The President decided to lead the American delegation.
E) The Germans had already rejected the Fourteen Points as a basis of negotiations.
G) A) and C)
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A) Americans still loved Woodrow Wilson.
B) The spirit of reform was still alive.
C) The nation was spiritually drained and wanted "normalcy."
D) The influence of munitions makers was widespread.
E) The people were tired of Wilson but wanted the League.
G) All of the above
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A) It was woefully unprepared, with little combat experience and an aging officer corps.
B) It was almost non-existent because of the pacifist tendencies of the Wilson Administration.
C) It was at its peak of fighting form after a year-long preparedness campaign.
D) It was staffed mainly with green draftees.
E) It was staffed with recruits and draftees drawn only from young men with the highest IQs.
G) A) and B)
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A) They claimed Americans should not be allowed to travel on foreign ships.
B) They issued an international denunciation of war as immoral.
C) They supported rearmament and universal military training.
D) They called for an invasion of Germany and full-scale war with Austria-Hungary.
E) They volunteered to provided neutral mediation of the war to end it by Christmas.
G) None of the above
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A) struck infants and the elderly particularly hard.
B) killed as many as 50 to 100 million people worldwide.
C) began as an avian flu in Asia.
D) originated in China.
E) was kept out of the U.S. by stringent government health regulations.
G) A) and B)
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A) Woodrow Wilson's statement of American war aims.
B) Herbert Hoover's guidelines for conserving food.
C) The Russian Bolsheviks' conditions for not revealing the secret treaties made prior to 1914.
D) David Lloyd George's plan for reconstructing the British Empire.
E) The Creel Committee's guidelines for censorship.
G) A) and C)
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A) significant economic and cultural ties.
B) an alliance with the French guaranteeing French colonial possessions.
C) an agreement with the British exchanging bases for destroyers.
D) A pledge to support only democracies in wartime.
E) membership in the League of Nations.
G) A) and B)
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A) Japan forced Russia to surrender.
B) Russia forced Japan to surrender.
C) Theodore Roosevelt mediated the conflict and negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth between them.
D) After fighting to a stalemate, they agreed to return to the same status as before the war.
E) The two nations signed the Treaty of Paris.
G) D) and E)
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A) The Wilson administration believed that it had to make more than just a symbolic show of support for the Central Powers.
B) Respected legal authorities in the United States had decided that neutrality regulations did not apply to financial loans.
C) Theodore Roosevelt had convinced Woodrow Wilson that the United States had to do everything in its power short of war to ensure Allied victory.
D) The Wilson administration feared the economic, financial, and social consequences of American industry's failing to secure European business.
E) Secretary of State William Bryan feared that the allied powers might lose without American financial aid.
G) A) and E)
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A) He headed the Food Administration
B) His policies pushed the United States into a serious depression in 1918.
C) He oversaw the production and allocation of wheat, meat, and sugar
D) He had to ensure supplies for the army as well as for the desperately food-short Allies.
E) He had been organizing food relief in Belgium when Wilson brought him back to Washington.
G) A) and E)
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A) The federal government had used the wartime emergency as an opportunity to end southern sharecropping.
B) Southern blacks knew that race relations in the North were idyllic compared with those in the South.
C) They were seeking the economic opportunities afforded by northern industrial expansion.
D) They had been told that northern agriculture was more prosperous than southern agriculture.
E) They knew of the northern race riots and decided to move north to help their brothers.
G) B) and C)
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A) He announced a blockade of Europe on behalf of the Allied Powers.
B) He announced an embargo of all American products, so that the United States would not repeat the mistakes of the War of 1812.
C) He announced a declaration of neutrality and called on the nation to be neutral in thought as well as action.
D) He asked Congress to declare war on Germany to prevent a victory by a militaristic continental power
E) He announced a preparedness campaign in order to promote armaments and military training.
G) D) and E)
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