Chapter 21 test

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the U.S.-Mexico War if it would side with Germany in WWI

Why did the League of Nations fail?

American refusals to join

What was the spark that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

Where did Germany first invade?

Belgium

Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT

Commissioned officers

Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT:

Destroyers

What was the result of the King-Crane Commission?

Discovery that most inhabitants of the Middle East favored an independent state free of European control

In 1916, Francisco Madero, a popular revolutionary in northern Mexico, raided Columbus, New Mexico, after being provoked by American support for his rivals.

False

In 1920, America joined the League of Nations, an international organization that later transformed into the United Nations of today.

False

Jim Crow segregation in both the military and the civilian sector was not a barrier for black women who wanted to give their time to the war effort.

False

On June 28, 1914, Serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austrian-Hungarian heirs to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Grand Duchess Sophie, because he was trying to reunite Serbia with Germany.

False

President Wilson signed the Treason Act in 1917 and the Subversion Act in 1918, stripping dissenters and protesters of their rights to publicly resist the war.

False

The alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia became known as the Triple Entente.

False

The war brought an abrupt end to four great European imperial powers. The German, Russian, Austrian-Hungarian, and Roman Empires.

False

Why did the Russian army disintegrate?

The Russian Revolution disintegrated after one last disastrous offensive against the Germans

A foreign policy of neutrality reflected America's inward-looking focus on the construction and management of its new powerful industrial economy.

True

Between 1917 and 1918, the army accepted immigrants with some hesitancy because of the widespread public agitation against "hyphenated Americans."

True

In 1919, Allied leaders gathered in France at Versailles for the Paris Peace Conference to dictate the terms of a settlement to the war and sign the Treaty of Versailles officially ending the war.

True

Military leaders authorized the permanent gender transition of several occupations that gave women opportunities to don uniforms where none had existed before in history.

True

The "Spanish Influenza" resulted in the deaths of an estimated fifty million people worldwide.

True

The destruction taking place on European battlefields and the ensuing casualty rates exposed the unprecedented brutality of modern warfare.

True

The Triple Entente united all of the following nations EXCEPT:

United States

How did the United States respond to the Bolshevik Revolution?

Opposed the Revolution and sent American troops, who remained in Russia until 1920

What was the Red Summer of 1919?

Racial violence in twenty-five American cities

What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht?

The Germans launched five failed major attacks