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What of the following was not used to control American dissent against the war effort?

National Civil Liberties Bureau

In order to pursue his goal of using American influence overseas only when it was a moral imperative, Wilson put which man in the position of Secretary of State?

William Jennings Bryan

neutrality

Woodrow Wilson's policy of maintaining commercial ties with all belligerents and insisting on open markets throughout Europe during World War I

Which of the following was not included in the Treaty of Versailles?

a curtailment of German immigration to Allied nations

Which of the following was not a destabilizing factor immediately following the end of the war?

a women's liberation movement

Why did the war not increase overall prosperity?

because inflation made the cost of living higher

Why was the German use of the unterseeboot considered to defy international law?

because they refused to warn their targets before firing

Which of the following was not enacted in order to secure men and materials for the war effort?

the Sedition Act

What was Article X in the Treaty of Versailles?

the agreement that all nations in the League of Nations would be rendered equal

What was the inciting event that led to the Chicago Race Riot of 1919?

the murder of a black boy who swam too close to a white beach

Which of the following did not influence the eventual passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

the passage of the Volstead Act

Zimmermann telegram

the telegram sent from German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador in Mexico, which invited Mexico to fight alongside Germany should the United States enter World War I on the side of the Allies

Red Scare

the term used to describe the fear that Americans felt about the possibility of a Bolshevik revolution in the United States; fear over Communist infiltrators led Americans to restrict and discriminate against any forms of radical dissent, whether Communist or not