Crash Course US and World War 1

"when the war broke out, America remained neutral because we were a little bit _____ owing to the fact that we were led, of course, by____ President " (Choose 2)

• isolationist

• Beligerant

• Roosevelt

• Wilson.

• McKinley

"Secretary of State _______ warned Americans not to travel on British, French, or German ships, Wilson refused to ban such travel, because, you know, freedom."

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Herbert Hoover

• William Jennings Bryan

• Hohn Piedmont Morgan

• Walt Whitman

why did the United States declare war for only the fourth time in its history? Was it the German's decision to _________________ in early 1917? Was it the interception and publication of the_____________ in which the German Foreign Secretary promised to help Mexico get back California if they joined Germany in a war against the U.S.? Or was it the fall of the Tsarist regime in Russia, which made Wilson's claims that he wanted to fight to make the world safe for democracy a bit more plausible? (Choose 2)

• Zimmerman telegram,

• Invade Southern America

• resume unrestricted submarine warfare

• Woodrow Wilsons Communications

• Nuclear Secrets

Which of the following is NOT one of Wilson's 14 Points?

• Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at,

• Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas

• The build-up of militaries to insure war never begins again

• The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade

:. ____________He served as an ambulance driver, which gave him a close-up view of death and misery and led to his membership in the so-called "Lost Generation" of writers who lived in Paris in the 1920s and tried to make sense of everything."

Hint: he wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and " The Old Man and the Sea"

• Tennessee Williams

• Neil Gaiman

• Jacob Astor

• Ernest Hemingway

Congress passed the _______ which required 24 million men to register for the draft and eventually increased the size of the army from 120 000 to 5 million.

• Clear and Present Danger Act

• Freedman's Act

• Selective Service Act,

• Propaganda Enlistment Act

• Post Service draft Act