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1 | | Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States should reduce its world commitments and concentrate instead on domestic reform. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2 | | William Howard Taft's approach to foreign policy was given the nickname "Dollar Diplomacy." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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3 | | The United States military intervened in Mexican affairs during Woodrow Wilson's administration. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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4 | | For the first part of World War I, Russia was an ally of Great Britain and France. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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5 | | At the time of its sinking by German submarine, the British ocean liner Lusitania was carrying munitions as well as passengers. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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6 | | Woodrow Wilson's victorious presidential campaign in 1916 was significantly aided by his pledge that the United States would enter World War I on the Allied side if he were reelected. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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7 | | The episode involving the intercepted telegram from Arthur Zimmermann concerned American relations with Mexico. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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8 | | Although German scientists had developed chemical weapons such as mustard gas, they never used them for fear that the Allies would retaliate with their own poison gas. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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9 | | 9. The most immediate effect that the U.S. had on the war once it joined was at sea versus German U-boats. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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10 | | The biggest defeat of American ground forces in World War I was in the Argonne Forest. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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11 | | In order to keep support for the war high, the federal government chose to raise all extra funds by selling war bonds rather than raising taxes. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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12 | | As President Wilson's principle economic advisor during World War I, Bernard Baruch adopted a hands-off policy and let market forces determine wartime industrial output. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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13 | | Government action during World War I pressured industry to grant concessions to labor such as the eight-hour day and union recognition. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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14 | | Unlike France and Great Britain, where opposition to the war was treated harshly, the United States allowed dissidents to speak and operate freely without supervision or harassment. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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15 | | A major category of Wilson's Fourteen Points concerned the aspirations for postwar European boundaries and self-determination for the people of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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16 | | Wilson's Fourteen Points contained proposals for an alliance of western European powers against the newly created Soviet Union. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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17 | | When Wilson traveled to Paris for the peace conference, he visited several European cities and encountered considerable public hostility toward his idealistic ideas for peace. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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18 | | In the United States Senate the leader of the opposition to Wilson, the treaty, and the League of Nations was Henry Cabot Lodge. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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