Chapter 23 - Section 2, America's Road to War

information designed to influence opinion

• militarism

• propaganda

• sedition

• espionage

rule by one person with unlimited power

• democracy

• theocracy

• autocracy

• plutocracy

This U.S president during WWI wanted to remain neutral at the beginning of the war

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Howard Taft

• Franklin Roosevelt

• William McKinley

Trade with Germany became difficult because Great Britain put up a ____.

• U-Boat

• blockade

• alliance

• armistice

On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed this British passenger liner killing 128 Americans

• Sussex

• Algonquin

• Zimmerman

• Lusitania

The _______ telegram was sent from the foreign minister of Germany to the German ambassador in Mexico.

• Ziegler

• Zielinksi

• Zagorski

• Zimmerman

Wilson was more willing to align with ______ after their change to a democratic government after their people overthrew the monarchy.

• Russia

• Germany

• the Ottoman Empire

• France

The U.S. Congress passed the declaration of war on _____, 1917

• November 11

• April 2

• April 6

• July 15

To raise an army quickly, Congress passed the _____ Service Act.

• Selective

• Sedition

• Sabotage

• Specific

The first American to receive the French Croix de Guerre

• Henry Johnson

• Alvin York

• John Pershing

• David George