Author Question: Soon after the U.S. assumed neutrality in World War I, Woodrow Wilson dropped the ban on loans to ... (Read 59 times)

beccaep · **on:** Sep 11, 2019

Question 1

Why did the Germans sink the British passenger liner Lusitania?

a. They took the position that civilians were legitimate targets during war.
b. The Lusitania fired upon their submarine first.
c. British passenger ships were used to carry munitions.
d. They could not tell whether it was a passenger liner or a naval cruiser.

Question 2

Soon after the U.S. assumed neutrality in World War I, Woodrow Wilson dropped the ban on loans to belligerents because

a. he resented Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan's moral grandstanding on the issue.
b. he hoped for a quick German victory.
c. the freeze endangered the stability of the American economy.
d. he stood to gain personally from wartime loans and investments.