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Front 1

How many soldiers perished during World War I worldwide?

Back 1

10 million

Front 2

The federal organization established to explain the war to the American people, and which trained some 75,000 Four-Minute Men to deliver short talks in support of America’s war effort was called:

Back 2

Committee on Public Information.

Front 3

What was the West African proverb that President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of?

Back 3

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Front 4

Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of:

Back 4

William Howard Taft.

Front 5

President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a settlement of:

Back 5

the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.

Front 6

During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were called:

Back 6

the Central Powers.

Front 7

Who was the leader of the National Woman’s Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of woman suffrage?

Back 7

Alice Paul

Front 8

What did prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919) prohibit?

Back 8

manufacturer, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages

Front 9

The “open door” policy refers to:

Back 9

a key principle of American foreign relations that emphasizes the free flow of trade, investment, and information.

Front 10

What was the name of the British liner sunk by a German submarine in May 1915, which resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand passengers, including 124 Americans?

Back 10

Lusitania

Front 11

Of the great ideologies that had arisen in the nineteenth century, which, by 1920, had proven most powerful?

Back 11

nationalism

Front 12

The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by:

Back 12

the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

Front 13

A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was:

Back 13

“Dollar Diplomacy.”

Front 14

In November 1917, in the midst of World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?

Back 14

Russia

Front 15

Which of the following was not a military technology used during World War I:

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atomic bombs.

Front 16

President Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy that called for active intervention to remake the world in America’s image, and which asserted the view that greater freedom worldwide would follow from increased American investment and trade abroad was called:

Back 16

liberal internationalism.

Front 17

President Woodrow Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in:

Back 17

the Fourteen Points.

Front 18

Which of the following was not a significant effect of World War I on American society?

Back 18

the withdrawal of the federal government from domestic affairs, so that it could concentrate on the war overseas

Front 19

Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, a movement for African independence and black self-reliance?

Back 19

Marcus Garvey

Front 20

Which of the following was not a feature of public debate over whether the United States should enter the war in Europe?

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Labor generally opposed American entry; business generally endorsed it.

Front 21

The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921 when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of this city to the ground:

Back 21

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Front 22

Randolph Bourne’s vision of America was one in which:

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a cosmopolitan, democratic society in which immigrants and natives would together create a new “trans-national” culture.

Front 23

The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and:

Back 23

after discovery of the Zimmermann telegram.

Front 24

Which of the following was not a significant development in postwar America?

Back 24

the constitutional enfranchisement of African-Americans

Front 25

Which of the following was not a principle espoused in Wilson's Fourteen Points?

Back 25

the abolition of colonial rule around the globe

Front 26

Between 1901 and 1920, the U.S. Marines landed in Caribbean countries:

Back 26

more than twenty times.

Front 27

The right to dissent from government policy during World War I:

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met sweeping repression

Front 28

The American foreign policy principle that held that the United States had a right to exercise “an international police power” in the Western Hemisphere was called:

Back 28

the Roosevelt Corollary.

Front 29

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson sent more than 10,000 troops into Mexico in an effort (that proved unsuccessful) to arrest:

Back 29

“Pancho” Villa, who had killed seventeen Americans in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.

Front 30

Which of the following was not a significant development in American race relations during the first two decades of the twentieth century?

Back 30

the ascent of racial equality to the top of the Progressive agenda

Front 31

During World War I, popular words of German origin were changed; “hamburger” became:

Back 31

“liberty sandwich”

Front 32

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Back 32

publication of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk; founding of NAACP; Silent Protest Parade in New York City; Chicago race riot