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Question 1

Where did the spanish flu originate?

Answer 1

The US

Question 2

How many people died in WWI?

Answer 2

37 million

Question 3

How many Americans died from the Spanish flu?

Answer 3

700,000, 14 times more than American soldiers killed in WWI

Question 4

1919 was a defining year of this person’s presidency and legacy.

Answer 4

Woodrow Wilson

Question 5

What campaign slogan did Wilson use to win the 1916 election?

Answer 5

“He Kept Us Out of War”

Question 6

When did Wilson finally put the US in WWI after years of neutrality?

Answer 6

the Spring of 1917

Question 7

Why did the US join WWI in 1917?

Answer 7

because “The world must be made safe for democracy”

Question 8

Half the 50k Americans died in this war.

Answer 8

the Meuse-Argonne offensive

Question 9

What were Americans who fought in WWI famously called?

Answer 9

doughboys

Question 10

What was Wilson’s famous postwar agenda known as?

Answer 10

Fourteen Points

Question 11

When was Wilson’s Fourteen Points laid out?

Answer 11

1918

Question 12

During negotiations, what did Wilson’s make his top priority?

Answer 12

establishing the League of Nations

Question 13

When Wilson arrived in Paris for negotiations, how did people view him?

Answer 13

They liked him and saw him as a “global celebrity”

Question 14

Why didn’t France or Britain think that an American should dictate peace talks?

Answer 14

Because America lost far fewer many and was geographically distant during the war

Question 15

How much was Germany forced to pay as part of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 15

$21 billion

Question 16

When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 16

June 28, 1919

Question 17

The Treaty of Versailles officially ended which war?

Answer 17

WWI

Question 18

What were Wilson’s main 2 challenges after WWI?

Answer 18

Selling the League of Nations to a hostile, Republican-controlled Congress and the American people, and his failing health

Question 19

What was required to ratify the League of Nations?

Answer 19

2/3s of the Senate

Question 20

Who were people who vowed to vote against the League of Nations known as?

Answer 20

Reservationists

Question 21

Who was the majority leader of the Senate during Wilson’s second term and the strongest hater of the League of Nations?

Answer 21

Mass. Senator Henry Lodge

Question 22

How many reservationists had Lodge gathered?

Answer 22

39 senators

Question 23

What part of the League’s Charter did people hate most?

Answer 23

Article X

Question 24

Why did people hate Article X?

Answer 24

because it was a restraint on American power and sovereignty

Question 25

Who were the other group of people who hated the League of Nations? (not including the reservationsists)

Answer 25

the Irreconcilables

Question 26

How did Wilson attempt to convince the Senate to adopt the League of Nations?

Answer 26

Rather than trying to find middle ground with Republicans, he lectured them

Question 27

What was Wilson's first and last stop of his cross-country speaking trip?

Answer 27

Columbus, Ohio to Pueblo, Colorado

Question 28

What did Wilson use for transportation on his cross-country trip?

Answer 28

a private railcar called The Mayflower

Question 29

Who helped Wilson when he was critically ill?

Answer 29

the First Lady

Question 30

What special division did Palmer make within the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigations (BOI)?

Answer 30

the General Intelligence Division (GID)

Question 31

What presidential election for what party was Palmer trying to become the nominee for?

Answer 31

the democratic party's 1920 nominee

Question 32

Between November 1919 and January 1920, what campaign did Palmer intensify?

Answer 32

the Justice Department's anti-radical campaign

Question 33

What were the Palmer Raids?

Answer 33

Raids that were started by Palmer under the anti-radical campaign by the DOJ

Question 34

What was the alleged point of the Palmer Raids?

Answer 34

To "clean up the country" by removing "radical seeds" entangled in Americans' minds

Question 35

Why was Palmer able to exercise so much power?

Answer 35

because Wilson was sidelined with health issues

Question 36

What was the result of Americans being jailed for opposing the war?

Answer 36

Three significant cases regarding the legality of them under the First Amendment went to the Supreme Court in 1919

Question 37

What was Schenck vs US?

Answer 37

a case where Schenck was jailed for handing out controversial leaflets

Question 38

What was the decision on Schenck vs US?

Answer 38

all judges sided Schenck saying he had free speech to give out the leaflets