PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
●● The federal organization established to explain the war to the
American people, and which trained some 75,000 Four-Minute Men to
deliver short talks in support of America's war effort was called:
Answer: Committee on Public Information
●● What was the West African proverb that President Theodore
Roosevelt was fond of?
Answer: Speak softly and carry a big stick.
●● Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic
investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military
intervention, was the policy of:
Answer: William Howard Taft.
●● President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping
to negotiate a settlement of:
Answer: the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
, ●● During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman
Empire were called:
Answer: the Central Powers.
●● Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization
that employed militant tactics in favor of woman suffrage?
Answer: Alice Paul
●● What did prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919)
prohibit?
Answer: manufacturer, sale, or distribution of alcoholic beverages
●● The "open door" policy refers to
Answer: a key principle of American foreign relations that emphasizes
the free flow of trade, investment, and information.
●● What was the name of the British liner sunk by a German submarine
in May 1915, which resulted in the deaths of more than a thousand
passengers, including 124 Americans?
Answer: Lusitania
●● Of the great ideologies that had arisen in the nineteenth century,
which, by 1920, had proven most powerful?
Answer: nationalism