1  War and Neutral Rights

1. Germany and Austria-Hungary against Britain, France, and Russia
2. Submarine
3. May 7, 1915
4. Woodrow Wilson


2  United States Enters World War I

1. Resumed unrestricted submarine warfare
2. General John J. Pershing
3. C - Establishment of a totalitarian regime in Germany
4. November 11, 1918


3  The League of Nations

1. B - false
2. Wilson had failed to involve leading Republicans in the treaty negotiations; while on a national tour to appeal for support, he suffered a crippling stroke from which he never fully recovered
3. B - false

4  Postwar Unrest

1. B - false
2. A - Bolsheviks
3. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
4. Answers will vary


5  The Booming 1920s

1. D - Warren G. Harding
2. Suffrage (right to vote) for women
3. Brought American trade barriers to new heights, guaranteeing U.S. manufacturers a monopoly of the domestic market, but blocking a healthy trade with Europe that would have reinvigorated the international economy; contributed to a collapsing cycle of world trade that intensified world economic misery
4. Andrew Mellon
5. Calvin Coolidge
6. Transportation Act of 1920 restored the railroads to private management; Merchant Marine was sold to private operators
7. Loss of foreign markets due to U.S. tariff policy and worldwide phenomenon of excess farm production
8. Answers will vary


6  Tensions over Immigration

1. Russian Jews, Poles, Slavic peoples, Greeks, and southern Italians; non-Protestant, "non-Nordic," and, many Americans feared, nonassimilable
2. Wanted to send them back to Europe
3. Established an immigration quota for each nationality


7  Clash of Cultures

1. William Jennings Bryan
2. Clarence Darrow
3. Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages
4. Speakeasies
5. Bootlegging
6. C - 1933
7. H.L. Mencken
8. F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Sinclair Lewis
10. Ernest Hemingway
11. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
12. African-American literary and artistic movement of the 1920s
13. D - Michael Buble


8  The Great Depression

1. The booming stock market crashed, wiping out many investors
2. D - 20%
3. Attempted to organize business, had sped up public works schedules, established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to support businesses and financial institutions, and had secured from a reluctant Congress an agency to underwrite home mortgages
4. A - Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. Answers will vary