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History Abeka 17 and MOH wk 17

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  • What scandal came up at the beginning of Warren G. Harding's term as president?
    Watergate (Nixon spying)
    Russiagate (Trump falsely accused as Russian agent)
    Tea Pot Dome scandal (personal profit on sale of oil leases)
    Tea Party scandal
  • In the midst of religious modernism, some people held to the Bible's doctrines. Who?
    Liberals
    Socialists
    Evolutionists
    Fundamentalists
  • What are some other names for communists?
    Libertarians or Evolutionists
    Fascists or punchable faces
    Social Democrats or Marxists
    Republicans or Democrats
  • What happened to Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles?
    Germany had to disarm and pay $33 billion in reparations
    Germany gained more land and received payments from Allies
    Germany had to give 75% of its land to France and pay $6 mil
    Germany was taken over by Britain
  • In the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, what happened to the Tsar Nicholas and his family?
    They were allowed to return to power after Communism failed.
    They were sent to Siberia and then executed in 1918.
    They escaped and no one knows where.
    They were exiled to France.
  • Who led the Bolshevik Revolution and what type of government did he want?
    Karl Marx
    Vladimir Lenin
    Woodrow Wilson
    Charles Darwin
  • Who took over after the death of the president and was sworn in by his father?
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Billy Sunday
    Calvin Coolidge
    Woodrow Wilson
  • In Lenin's New Economic Policy in Russia, what did he give back to appease peasants?
    a Christmas dinner for each family
    all freedom back to all Russians
    some economic freedom to small businesses and farmers
    money the tsar had taken from them
  • What is Espionage and what did the Espionage act of 1917 do?
    spying on a nation/interfering with its security; it made people guilty of it have severe penalties!
  • What group in the U.S. sparked the creation of the General Intelligence Division, later known as the FBI?
    Fear of spies/ sinking of ships in U.S. ports
    The rise of the Independent Party/ riots across cities
    Fear of Communist Revolution/ bombs exploding in June 1919
    Fear of bans on chocolate imports/ giant chocolate parties
  • What were the 3 "fronts" in WWI?
    Allied front, Central front, and Italian front
    Paris front, Austrian front, Russian front
    Western front, Eastern Front, Mediterranean front
    Northern front, Southern Front, Atlantic front
  • What were many families in the 1920's able to afford that they hadn't been able to before?
    Televisions, airplane tickets, push button cordless phones
    Cars, radios, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.
    Food, clothes, and carriages
    College education, laptops, and cell phones
  • What was the Zimmerman note?
    Note from US president to Elon Musk
    Note from German secretary promising US land to Mexico
    Note from US ambassador acting as a spy to Germany
    Note from Russian ruler to Germany
  • How did the U.S. pay for the war effort for WWI?
    Loans from Canada and tariffs.
    Gold they already had from the gold rush.
    Taxes, Liberty loans, and conserving food and fuel.
  • Why did Russia pull out of WWI and when?
    Their peasants refused to fight
    The Allies weren't Communists; they didn't like them anymore
    They surrendered to Austria and Germany
    Lenin signed an armistice & peace treaty with Germany in1918
  • What type of warfare was used in WWI?
    trench warfare
    Airsoft warfare
    March in a line warfare
    guerilla warfare
  • What year did WWI start?
    1922
    1918
    1908
    1914
  • What did the 18th and 19th amendments do?
    Declared freedom of speech and freedom of religion
    No sale/distribution of alcohol; women's right to vote
    Allowed people to bear arms; allowed free elections
    No slavery; all races have right to vote
  • Why were the 1920's called the roaring twenties?
    Computers, the internet, space exploration, Facebook
    Lots of new inventions, cars, assembly lines, jazz music ...
    Lions escaping from the zoos in all the major cities
    Wagon wheels across the prairie and transcontinental rail
  • What event sparked the start of WWI?
    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    Submarines blockading British ports
    Russian peasants deposing the czar
    The sinking of the Lusitania
  • True or False There was no discrimination or segregation of black people in the 1920's
    False (The KKK and much racial prejudice existed in the U.S. in the 1920's)
  • What is an armistice and when was it for WWI?
    a special cast for soldiers with injured arms, used in 1914
    a holiday marking the end of WWII, 1945
    a cease fire, November 11, 1918
    a place where arms are stored, Dec. 25, 1917
  • What did Lenin say was the goal of socialism (government-owned property & industry)?
    Fascism
    Dictatorship
    Republicanism
    Communism