11. One of the contributions of Woodrow Wilson was ______.
A. natural conservation
B. the construction of irrigation projects
C. the setting-up of the Federal Reserve Board and twelve Federal
Reserve Banks
D. the introduction of tariff increase and a low income tax
12. The policy the United States actually pursued in the first two years of
WWI was ______.
A. impartial neutrality B. partial neutrality
C. firm support of the Allies D. Pro-Ally partial neutrality
13. The essence of the Paris Peace Conference was .
A. to bring peace to Europe
B. to carve up the colonies of the defeated countries and to get war
compensation for the victors
C. to settle the colonial problem of the Ottoman Empire
D. to put the Fourteen Points into Practice
14. typically represented the world pattern between the two world wars _____.
A. The Versailles Treaty System
B. The Versailles Treaty System and the Washington Treaty System
C. The collapse of the German, Austro-Hungary and the Ottoman colonial
systems
D. Both B and C
15. Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death and executed because ______.
A. of their radical political views
B. they were guilty of killing two people
C. they were members of KKK
D. they stole $ 16,000
16. One of the serious weaknesses in American economy in the 1920s was _____.
A. uncontrolled speculation in the stock market
B. tariff protection
C. huge profits of big businesses
D. too much control over the banking system
17. The serious economic crisis in the late 1920s and 1930s first brought
about by ______.
A. bank failures B. serious unemployment
C. farm foreclosures D. the stock market crash
18. The Hoover Administration ______ to deal with the economic crisis.
A. took effective measures
B. did not take any measure
C. asked the private sector
D. refused to take strong government action
19. Most of the measures F.D. Roosevelt took in the first hundred days he
was in the White House were to ______.
A. stop bank failures
B. prevent radical actions in the United States
C. prevent the further worsening of the economic situation and lessen
the personal sufferings of the people
D. prevent further worsening of the unstable political situation
20. The purpose of the New Deal measures was to ______.
A. save American democracy and the capitalist system
B. check the worsening of the economic situation
C. help people tie over the difficulty
D. increase American export
1.A 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.B 7.D 8.C 9.A 10.C 11.C 12.D 13.B 14.B 15.A 16.A 17.D 18.D 19.C 20.A