7-3.7 - 7-4.1: The Spanish American War and WWI

Question 1

What was the importance of the Panama Canal?

Accepted Answer

Quicker way to get ships from Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans

Question 2

WWI, an American farmer feed the Allied armies and Europeans would not loose farm in the 1920s

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The price of food dropped (People did not need as much food)

Question 3

What effect did the Russian withdrawal from WWI have on Germany?

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Germany did not have to divide its troops between 2 fronts

Question 4

What was significant about the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?

Accepted Answer

It ended World War I (The Great War)

Question 5

What event signaled the beginning of the depression on October 29, 1929?

Accepted Answer

The stock market crashed(Black Tuesday)

Question 6

Region US exercised economic imperialism and intervened in due to its location

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Latin America (or Western Hemisphere)

Question 7

Could not repay France, France took the industrial Ruhr Valley Germany’ printed money

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German money became worthless

Question 8

What caused the war that began in Bosnia to spread across Europe?

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Alliances between the European countries

Question 9

The Treaty of Versailles make it difficult for Germany to recover economically

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Paying reparations to England & France instead of rebuilding

Question 10

The importance of the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor:

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The USA declared war on Spain

Question 11

Term to describe Woodrow Wilson’s idea that nations should govern themselves:

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Self-determination

Question 12

Document declaring the United States would serve as in an international police:

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Roosevelt Corollary

Question 13

What two major empires were broken up after WWI?

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Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman

Question 14

Name at least three new technologies of WWI

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 15

The economic situation in America grew worse, what effect on the economic recovery in Europe?

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European economies suffered depression was felt in Europe

Question 16

Which country proposed the League of Nations but refused to join the League?

Accepted Answer

USA

Question 17

When consumer demand and sales decreased, what effect did this have on employment?

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Workers lost their jobs (Unemployment went up)

Question 18

Why did the United States loan Germany large sums of money in the early 1920s?

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Germany had to pay reparations for the war

Question 19

Which front was in Austria-Hungary with fighting between Germans & Russians?

Accepted Answer

Eastern

Question 20

At the end of WWI, why would unemployment be on the rise?

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Not enough jobs for the returning soldiers

Question 21

What revolution in Russia ended Russia’s involvement in the war?

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Bolshevik Revolution

Question 22

Worldwide depression caused many nations to focus on solving their own problems by

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Isolationism

Question 23

Franklin Roosevelt offered relief, reform, and recovery in the American economy

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The New Deal

Question 24

What effect did the American entry into the war have on the Allies?

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The Allies were able to defeat the Central Powers

Question 25

What three countries used the economic depression to justify the takeover of other nations

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 26

What did Wilson’s Fourteenth Point create to resolve disputes between countries?

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The League of Nations

Question 27

Pres. Teddy Roosevelt the US Navy symbol of his statement to speak softly and carry a big stick

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Sent the Navy on a World tour

Question 28

Who did President Woodrow Wilson get permission from for America to join the war?

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Congress

Question 29

WWI Allies Russia, France, and England Central Powers Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary

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Alliances

Question 30

What were European countries having to spend money on after WWI?

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They had to rebuild their cities

Question 31

Americans afford to buy new products even though wages remained low for industrial workers

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The Installment Plan

Question 32

What led to the creation of bigger more powerful armies and navies?

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Militarism

Question 33

Which front was in France between the French & British against the Germans?

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Western

Question 34

What was the “spark” of the “Great War” WWI?

Accepted Answer

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 35

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended the war between Germany and:

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Russia

Question 36

What was the purpose of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points proposal?

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To prevent further wars

Question 37

What were the MAIN causes of World War I (WWI)?

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Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism

Question 38

What was unrestricted submarine warfare used by the Germans?

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Germans would torpedo non-military and military ships

Question 39

Term was used that stretched the truth about the explosion of the USS Maine

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Yellow Journalism

Question 40

Which country increased government ownership of key industries and raised taxes?

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Great Britain

Question 41

Loyalty to one’s country that led to people wanting independence

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Nationalism

Question 42

What German citizen was able to use the nationalist hatred of the Treaty of Versailles

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Adolf Hitler

Question 43

The League of Nations required unanimous consent why was this a weakness?

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Impossible for all nations to agree how to handle a problem

Question 44

What territories did the US gain after the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

Answers A and B

Question 45

Term describes the “race for empires” as nations competed for colonies

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 46

Why did the United States support the Panamanian Revolution against Colombia?

Accepted Answer

To build the Panama Canal

Question 47

What was the “War Guilt Clause” in the Treaty of Versailles?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 48

What country did not exist before WWI and was created by the Treaty of Versailles?

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Poland

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