History Questions

The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union. Which of the following did this period encompass?

In order to fight the rising influence of the Soviet Union and communism.

What event caused countries to economically isolate themselves from one another prior to WWII?

The communist economic model was largely _____.

What organization is emblematic of the Eastern response to the GATT?

Economists in what two countries are generally considered the main architects of postwar global capitalism?

For more than three years, the major form of fighting on the western front was:

The Great Migration was a large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern African Americans to Northern cities

The invasion of what country began the active fighting in the war.

This term describes a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds.

In the Battle of the Somme, this resulted in the exchange of seven miles of territory at the cost of 1.2 million casualties.

In 1914, this Triple alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

Under the immigration quota system, a person could be finedand/or imprisoned for interfering with the war effort.

These people opposed World War I because they perceive all wars as evil.

This began with the introduction of the tank and the airplane as weapons.

He commanded the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).

This contained a suggestion of an alliance between Mexico and Germany that deeply angered the American people.

This long-term cause of the war encouraged competitiveness between nations and encouraged various ethnic groups to attempt to create nations of their own; the belief that one's national goals and culture are superior to the goals and cultures of all other nations.

This British liner was sunk by a German U-boat.

Having shot down 26 enemy planes, he was America's leading ace pilot in the war.