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 (154.0K) American troops leave camp in 1917 and prepare to join the Great War going on in Europe. Which of the following was not a reason for American entry into WWI? |
|  | A) | Zimmermann Telegram |
|  | B) | The Lusitania |
|  | C) | The Bolshevik Revolution |
|  | D) | The Sussex |
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 (140.0K) An American soldier sits with his rifle somewhere in Europe. In which battle did American troops not take part? |
|  | A) | Battle of the Somme |
|  | B) | Château-Thierry |
|  | C) | Battle of Rheims |
|  | D) | Argonne Forest |
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 (126.0K) The introduction of machine guns to warfare (such as the one here) is one of the many reasons for the horrendous number of casualties in WWI. France lost 1.7 million men, Germany 2 million, and England one-third of the men born between 1892 and In comparison, how many casualties did the United States suffer in World War I? |
|  | A) | 112,000 |
|  | B) | 460,000 |
|  | C) | 800,000 |
|  | D) | 1.1 million |
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 (218.0K) The fighting in World War I is probably best characterized by images of trench warfare such as this one. Which of the following "innovations" was not part of the new landscape of war in WWI? |
|  | A) | Chemical Weapons |
|  | B) | Dogfights |
|  | C) | Submarine Warfare |
|  | D) | Centrimetric Radar |
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 (151.0K) African-American soldiers of the 369th infantry show off their Croix de Guerre medals. Blacks fighting for democracy abroad would come home ready to fight the war for democracy at home with renewed vigor. Which African-American poet penned the poem "If We Must Die" after the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, which warns "Like men, we'll face the murderous cowardly pack/Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back"? |
|  | A) | Langston Hughes |
|  | B) | Zora Neale Hurston |
|  | C) | Claude McKay |
|  | D) | James Weldon Johnson |
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 (195.0K) Woodrow Wilson sits with the leaders of England, France, and Italy at the Paris Peace Conference. Who is not pictured in this photograph? |
|  | A) | David Lloyd George |
|  | B) | Georges Clemenceau |
|  | C) | Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
|  | D) | Vittorio Orlando |
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 (163.0K) This powerful Massachusetts Senator was the head of the Foreign Relations Committee and a virulent opponent of the League of Nations. He is: |
|  | A) | A. Mitchell Palmer |
|  | B) | Henry Cabot Lodge |
|  | C) | Charles Evans Hughes |
|  | D) | Bernard Baruch |
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 (144.0K) This poster by artist James Montgomery Flagg is probably the most famous propaganda image in American history. What was the name of the government agency dedicated to selling war involvement to the American people? |
|  | A) | Council of National Defense |
|  | B) | War Industries Board |
|  | C) | Committee on Public Information |
|  | D) | Civilian Advisor Commission |
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 (161.0K) This is another one of the more well-known propaganda posters from the World War I era. The government agency in question #8 was headed by a Denver journalist by the name of: |
|  | A) | George Creel |
|  | B) | Bernard Baruch |
|  | C) | A. Mitchell Palmer |
|  | D) | William McAdoo |
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 (167.0K) Here, the US Food Administration encourages citizens to save sugar for the war effort. The brilliant young head of the US Food Administration was: |
|  | A) | Bernard Baruch |
|  | B) | William McAdoo |
|  | C) | Herbert Hoover |
|  | D) | A. Mitchell Palmer |
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 (115.0K) In this picture, the Hollywood star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. encourages his fellow Americans to buy war bonds. These bonds were more commonly known as: |
|  | A) | Freedom Bonds |
|  | B) | Liberty Bonds |
|  | C) | Prosperity Bonds |
|  | D) | Democracy Bonds |
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 (114.0K) In this image, a woman welds together some kind of military munitions. The government agency created in July 1917 to coordinate government purchases of military supplies was: |
|  | A) | War Industries Board |
|  | B) | National War Labor Board |
|  | C) | Council of National Defense |
|  | D) | Civilian Advisory Commission |
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 (101.0K) Here, federal agents arrest a number of Wobblies in Chicago who had threatened to strike during the war. Which of the following men spent three years in prison for speaking out against the WWI effort? |
|  | A) | William Haywood |
|  | B) | Herbert Croly |
|  | C) | Eugene Debs |
|  | D) | Nicola Sacco |
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