Upfront quiz 3.MULTIPLE CHOICE DIRECTIONS: Circle the letter next to the best answer. 1. Many Americans feared that if the U.S. joined the League of Nations, the League could a influence the makeup of the U.S. government. b impede the growth of the U.S. economy. c dictate U.S. foreign policy and drag the U.S. into war. d force a change in U.S. immigration laws. 2. In April 1917, the U.S. declared war against Germany, in part because a Germany had refused to repay loans to the U.S. b German submarines had sunk U.S. shipping. c Americans feared a German attack on Washington, D.C. d the U.S. wanted access to Germany's natural resources. 3. Which of the following was not a "Big Four" victor in World War I? a Italy b Britain c Switzerland d France 4. Why did President Woodrow Wilson oppose the payment of heavy reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to describe compensation sought by many African Americans for enslavement of blacks prior to the Civil War), in 20th-century world history reparations are the payments sought by the victorious by Germany? He a was advised that Germany couldn't pay. b believed German-Americans would be offended. c judged assertions of German guilt as exaggerated. d said that reparations would fuel German resentment. 5. The U.S. did not join the League of Nations League of Nations, former international organization, established by the peace treaties that ended World War I. Like its successor, the United Nations, its purpose was the promotion of international peace and security. The League was a product of World War I in the sense that that conflict convinced most persons of the necessity of averting another such cataclysm. because a League members wanted its headquarters in Europe. b the League rejected the U.S. membership application. c the U.S. Senate refused to approve membership. d Americans rejected the League in a national referendum. 6. President Wilson accurately predicted that if the League failed, there would be a more disastrous war in the future. This is exactly what happened when, in 1939, a France invaded Germany. b Germany invaded Poland. c Japan attacked the U.S. d Russia attacked China. ANSWER KEY 1. (c) dictate U.S. foreign policy and drag the U.S. into war. 2. (b) German submarines had sunk U.S. shipping. 3. (c) Switzerland 4. (d) said that reparations would fuel German resentment. 5. (c) the U.S. Senate refused to approve membership. 6. (b) Germany invaded Poland. |
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