Study Guide Questions 1. What provision of the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I caused much resentment by the German people toward the Allies for years to come? 2. A. What was the League of Nations? B. What defense provision did it have? 3. What provision of the Treaty of Versailles dealt with the German navy? 4. A. What were the five major naval powers invited to the naval disarmament talks in Washington in 1921? B. What did the 5:5:3 ratio in the proposed disarmament treaty refer to? 5. Why did the United States not embark on any large warship building programs in the 1920s? 6. How did the worldwide economic problems of the 1920s allow the dictatorships to arise in Europe?

Which four excerpts from the poem "a political reverie" by mercy otis warren imply that america was an oppressed and exploited nation? no despot here shall rule with awful sway nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey; no more the widow'd bleeding bosom mourns, nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons; for then each tyrant, by the hand of fate, and standing troops, the bane of every state, forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far as bright hesperus from the polar star; freedom and virtue shall united reign, and stretch their empire o'er the wide domain. on a broad base the commonwealth shall stand, when lawless power withdraws its impious hand; when crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, nor petty pretors plunder here for kings