20. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 20: The Committee on Public Information and Wartime Propaganda

**Quiz for Document 20.3: Advertisement in History Teacher’s Magazine (1917)**

Quiz for Document 20.3: Advertisement in History Teacher’s Magazine (1917)

Document 20.3: Advertisement in History Teacher’s Magazine (1917)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 20.7

1. Why would the Committee on Public Information advertise to history teachers?

The majority of history teachers were pro-war due to their knowledge of past events in Europe.

History teachers were effective conduits between the government and children and could spread pro-war propaganda.

Many history teachers were also coaches, which placed them in an optimal position to encourage young men to enlist.

The discipline of history encourages critical thinking and the use of evidence to support rational arguments.

Question 20.8

2. The advertisement emphasizes that some of the CPI’s publications were available in many different languages. Why did it print foreign language versions of its pamphlets?

To enable the distribution of American propaganda in other countries around the world

To allow foreign language teachers in U.S. schools to use the pamphlets in their classes

To make it possible for non-English-speaking immigrants to read pro-war propaganda

To show other countries that the United States was a haven for European immigrants

Question 20.9

3. The CPI’s tips for history teachers emphasize which of the following themes?

American democracy and German autocracy

The United States’ commitment to economic and religious freedom

The dangers of the German social welfare system

The United States’ historic ties to France and Britain

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