War is the Health of the State

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Question 1

According to the first sentence of Chapter 14, who is credited with the phrase, 'War is the health of the state'?

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Question 2

What was the total estimated death toll from hunger and disease related to World War I, as mentioned in the chapter?

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Question 3

According to the chapter, what event in San Francisco in the summer of 1916 led to the arrest of radicals Tom Mooney and Warren Billings?

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Question 4

How did the British army's height requirement for volunteers change between August and October of 1914?

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Question 5

What was the American government's official claim about the cargo of the Lusitania, and what does the chapter state was the reality?

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Question 6

According to W. E. B. Du Bois's article 'The African Roots of War,' what was the paradoxical result of 'democracy' in imperial countries like the United States?

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Question 7

How many men volunteered for the U.S. military in the first six weeks after the declaration of World War I, compared to the one million that were needed?

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Question 8

What was the purpose of the Espionage Act of 1917, despite its title?

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Question 9

In the Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, what famous legal doctrine did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes articulate to justify Schenck's conviction?

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Question 10

Approximately how many people were imprisoned under the Espionage Act during World War I?

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Question 11

What was the American Protective League, as described in Chapter 14?

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Question 12

What was the 'Green Corn Rebellion' of 1917?

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Question 13

What happened to the 165 IWW leaders arrested in September 1917 for conspiring to hinder the draft?

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Question 14

Who were the primary targets of the Palmer Raids in late 1919 and early 1920?

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Question 15

How many American soldiers died in World War I, according to the chapter?

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Question 16

In what year did the Socialist party vote increase to 34.7 percent in Chicago municipal elections?

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Question 17

What was the final outcome of the trial of the 'Catonsville Nine' for burning draft records?

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Question 17

Who was the first woman in the House of Representatives, and how did she vote on the declaration of war in 1917?

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Question 18

How much money in goods had been sold to the Allies by the United States by April 1917?

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Question 19

What was the Supreme Court's justification for affirming Eugene Debs's conviction under the Espionage Act?

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Question 20

In the film 'The Spirit of ’76,' why was the filmmaker prosecuted under the Espionage Act?

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Question 21

How many conscientious objectors declared themselves during World War I, and how many of them went to prison?

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Question 22

What was the total fine levied against the IWW leaders convicted in the mass trial of 1918?

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Question 23

Which writer's post-war novel '1919' is quoted to illustrate the bitterness and disillusionment that followed World War I?

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Question 24

What action by President Wilson prompted Henry James to write, 'The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness...'?

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Question 25

According to the chapter, why did Woodrow Wilson's administration rationalize its entry into the war as defending the rights of Americans to travel in the war zone?

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Question 26

How many men were tried and condemned in the French army mutinies of 1917?

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Question 27

What was the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, headed by Samuel Gompers?

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Question 28

What was the consequence for socialist Kate Richards O'Hare for her antiwar speech in North Dakota?

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Question 29

What did John Reed, who covered the IWW trial, say was the common belief of the 101 defendants?

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Question 30

What was the final fate of anarchist leader Big Bill Haywood after his conviction in the IWW trial?

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Question 31

The chapter suggests the U.S. government's entry into World War I was primarily motivated by what?

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Question 32

What was the official death toll on the battlefield during World War I?

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Question 33

How did George Creel's Committee on Public Information attempt to build support for the war?

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Question 34

What was the Socialist Party's official position on the U.S. declaration of war, as stated at their emergency convention in St. Louis?

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Question 35

What was the central argument in the leaflets for which Charles Schenck was arrested and convicted?

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Question 36

In his speech before sentencing, what did Eugene Debs declare about his relationship with the lower classes and criminals?

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Question 37

How many men were ultimately classified as draft evaders during World War I?

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Question 38

What was the final result for the 249 aliens, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, picked up in the first of the Palmer Raids?

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Question 39

What was the final message of Sacco to his son Dante, as quoted in the chapter?

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Question 40

The chapter argues that U.S. entry into World War I was a response to what specific action by Germany?

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Question 41

What was the outcome of the Socialist party's municipal election campaigns in 1917?

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Question 42

The chapter describes a legal basis for prosecuting speech after it was uttered, which was known to legal experts but not the general public. What was this legal concept called?

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Question 43

How many soldiers from the 9th Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were left twenty-four hours after an attack they launched?

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Question 44

What was the fate of Andrea Salsedo, the anarchist typesetter arrested in New York in the spring of 1920?

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Question 45

What did the Socialist party magazine 'The Masses' have done to it by the Post Office Department?

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Question 46

According to the chapter, how many mutinies occurred in the French army in 1917?

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Question 47

What was a key reason for J.P. Morgan and other financiers to support the Allied cause, according to the chapter?

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Question 48

The chapter suggests that the US government's harsh repression of dissent during WWI indicates what about public sentiment for the war?

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Question 49

In his final statement, one of the convicted IWW men explained his lack of patriotism by citing what experiences?

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Question 50

What was the final message found in the text that symbolizes the end of the chapter's narrative on World War I and its aftermath?

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