HISTORY 1302 EXAM II QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
1) Some 8,000 American troops landed in Russia in 1918
A) to help end the German occupation of Russia's eastern frontier
B) when Russia signed a separate peace treaty with Germany
C) when Russia threatened to fight for the Central Powers
D) to fight the pro-Bolshevik "White" Russians
E) to free American prisoners of war -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B. when
Russia signed a separate peace treaty with Germany
2) In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President
Wilson
A) remained true to his core values
B) only compromised when it benefited America
C) demanded that Democratic states must be established
D) had to compromise his principle of national self-determination
E) was embarrassed to admit that most Americans did not want the
League -- Correct Answer ✔✔ D. had to compromise his principle
of national self-determination
3) The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against
A) the KKK
, B) blacks
C) labor unions
D) socialists and communists
E) Germans -- Correct Answer ✔✔ D. socialists and communists
4) The event that triggered World War I in Europe was
A) Germany's invasion of Belgium
B) Russia's decision to ally with France and Britain
C) Germany's determination to build a navy as large as Britain's
D) the fallout of the Bolshevik Revolution
E) a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke -- Correct Answer
✔✔ E. a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke
5) Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
A) It was sunk by a submarine right outside New York Harbor
B) It was one of the largest battleships in the British navy
C) It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo
D) Its sinking led Wilson to support a war against Germany
E) It was the only passenger ship the Germans attacked during the war
-- Correct Answer ✔✔ C. It secretly carried weapons and
ammunition in its cargo
6) The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following except
A) included a "war guilt" clause that blamed Germany for World War I
B) created new nations such as Poland and Yugoslavia
C) required Germany to pay reparations
D) demilitarized the Rhineland
E) required veterans' pensions to be paid by their home country --
Correct Answer ✔✔ E. required veterans' pensions to be paid by
their home country
7) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were
A) convicted of bombing 8 army supply trucks
B) two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even
though there was doubt as to their guilt
, C) finally exonerated of the charges of payroll robbery and murder
D) murdered by members of the KKK
E) the New York Yankees' double-play combination during the 1920s
-- Correct Answer ✔✔ B. two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to
death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
8) The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s
A) favored immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
B) encouraged Asians to immigrate to America
C) Set strict limits on immigration from Mexico
D) rescinded the Gentlemen's Agreement accepted during Theodore
Roosevelt's administration
E) favored immigrants from northern and western Europe -- Correct
Answer ✔✔ E. favored immigrants from from northern and western
Europe
9) The KKK of the 1920s was based mainly on
A) anti-Semitic rhetoric
B) prohibition
C) fundamentalist religious beliefs
D) anti-black rhetoric
E) "100 percent Americanism" -- Correct Answer ✔✔ E. "100 percent
Americanism"
10) Who said, "When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes
outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat"?
A) Clarence Darrow
B) Ruth Benedict
C) William J. Simmons
D) Moorefield Storey
E) Marcus Garvey -- Correct Answer ✔✔ C. William J. Simmons
11) The Scopes trial
SOLUTIONS
1) Some 8,000 American troops landed in Russia in 1918
A) to help end the German occupation of Russia's eastern frontier
B) when Russia signed a separate peace treaty with Germany
C) when Russia threatened to fight for the Central Powers
D) to fight the pro-Bolshevik "White" Russians
E) to free American prisoners of war -- Correct Answer ✔✔ B. when
Russia signed a separate peace treaty with Germany
2) In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President
Wilson
A) remained true to his core values
B) only compromised when it benefited America
C) demanded that Democratic states must be established
D) had to compromise his principle of national self-determination
E) was embarrassed to admit that most Americans did not want the
League -- Correct Answer ✔✔ D. had to compromise his principle
of national self-determination
3) The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against
A) the KKK
, B) blacks
C) labor unions
D) socialists and communists
E) Germans -- Correct Answer ✔✔ D. socialists and communists
4) The event that triggered World War I in Europe was
A) Germany's invasion of Belgium
B) Russia's decision to ally with France and Britain
C) Germany's determination to build a navy as large as Britain's
D) the fallout of the Bolshevik Revolution
E) a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke -- Correct Answer
✔✔ E. a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke
5) Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?
A) It was sunk by a submarine right outside New York Harbor
B) It was one of the largest battleships in the British navy
C) It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo
D) Its sinking led Wilson to support a war against Germany
E) It was the only passenger ship the Germans attacked during the war
-- Correct Answer ✔✔ C. It secretly carried weapons and
ammunition in its cargo
6) The Treaty of Versailles did all of the following except
A) included a "war guilt" clause that blamed Germany for World War I
B) created new nations such as Poland and Yugoslavia
C) required Germany to pay reparations
D) demilitarized the Rhineland
E) required veterans' pensions to be paid by their home country --
Correct Answer ✔✔ E. required veterans' pensions to be paid by
their home country
7) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were
A) convicted of bombing 8 army supply trucks
B) two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even
though there was doubt as to their guilt
, C) finally exonerated of the charges of payroll robbery and murder
D) murdered by members of the KKK
E) the New York Yankees' double-play combination during the 1920s
-- Correct Answer ✔✔ B. two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to
death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
8) The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s
A) favored immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
B) encouraged Asians to immigrate to America
C) Set strict limits on immigration from Mexico
D) rescinded the Gentlemen's Agreement accepted during Theodore
Roosevelt's administration
E) favored immigrants from northern and western Europe -- Correct
Answer ✔✔ E. favored immigrants from from northern and western
Europe
9) The KKK of the 1920s was based mainly on
A) anti-Semitic rhetoric
B) prohibition
C) fundamentalist religious beliefs
D) anti-black rhetoric
E) "100 percent Americanism" -- Correct Answer ✔✔ E. "100 percent
Americanism"
10) Who said, "When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes
outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat"?
A) Clarence Darrow
B) Ruth Benedict
C) William J. Simmons
D) Moorefield Storey
E) Marcus Garvey -- Correct Answer ✔✔ C. William J. Simmons
11) The Scopes trial
