Ahap - Ch. 23 Workbook Tf

Front 1

The "Central Powers" of World War I included Germany, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Back 1

True

Front 2

At the time of its sinking by a german submarine, the British ocean liner Lusitania was carrying munitions as well as passengers.

Back 2

True

Front 3

Woodrow Wilson's victorious presidential campaign in 1916 was significantly aided by his pledge that the United States would immediately enter World War I on the Allied side if he were reelected.

Back 3

False

Front 4

In World War I, Russia started out on the Allied side but joined Germany in fighting against the Allies after the communists took over

Back 4

False

Front 5

After sinking the Lusitania, popular support for WWI was so great that the military draft authorized by Congress never had to be implemented

Back 5

False

Front 6

Most African-American soldiers in WWI were confined to noncombat roles, but some did fight in the offensives of 1918

Back 6

True

Front 7

The principal commander of German military forces was Johan Pershing

Back 7

False

Front 8

The biggest defeat of American ground forces in World War I was in the Argonne Forest

Back 8

False

Front 9

Bernard Baruch headed the War Industries Board

Back 9

True

Front 10

Government actions during World War I resulted in a significat increase in labor union membership between 1917 and 1919

Back 10

True

Front 11

Unlike in France and Great Britain where opposition to the Great War was treated harshly, the United States allowed antiwar dissidents to speak and operate freely without supervision or harassment

Back 11

False

Front 12

In the Ludlow massacre, German officers killed several hundred Russian prisoners of war suspected of being communists

Back 12

False

Front 13

During and shortly after World War I, there were several race riots in southern cities, but race relations remained relatively harmonious in northern cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and the St. Louis area

Back 13

False

Front 14

The limited U.S. military intervention in Russia was designed to help the so-called White Russians

Back 14

True

Front 15

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George supported all of Wilsons Fourteen Points, but Georges Clemenceau of France resisted because of sevre damage to his nation

Back 15

False

Front 16

The Fourteen Points contained a proposal for an alliance of western European and north Atlantic powers against the newly created Soviet Union

Back 16

False

Front 17

On his way to Paris for the peace conference, Wilson visited several European cities and encountered considerable public acclaim for his idealistic ideas

Back 17

True

Front 18

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was a key figure in the senate's refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

Back 18

True

Front 19

The Comintern was a consortium of western European nations to oppose the spread of communism

Back 19

False

Front 20

Marcus Garvey promoted the ideology of black nationalism

Back 20

True