Imperialism
This is the act of a country gaining more power by taking over another country using military or diplomatic force.
What is imperialism?
This is the country the United States defended in a war against Spain in the late 19th Century.
Who is Cuba?
This is the British ship that was sunk by a German U-boat, killing 128 Americans in an unprovoked attack by the Germans.
What is the Lusitania?
Who is Germany?
This is the nickname given to the 1920's because of the changes in American culture during the decade.
What is the Roaring 20's?
These notes were intended to protect China's ability to trade with other foreign powers.
What was the Open Door Policy (Open Door Notes)?
This is the country the United States was able to "purchase" from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
This is the German policy of attacking any ship that enters the British Isles, declaring these waters a war zone, resulting in the sinking of commercial and civilian Allied ships by u-boats.
What is German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
This is the country that was responsible for paying for the war damage of ALL the countries damaged by World War I.
Who is Germany?
This is the name of the cultural movement that led to the production of jazz music, art, and literature in Harlem, providing African Americans with a means of expression and entertainment.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is the name of President Roosevelt's foreign policy strategy inspired by the Monroe Doctrine, stating that European powers should stay out of Latin American countries.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This is what the Anti-Imperialist League would urge the United States to do regarding the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
What is protest/object against the United States' occupation of the Philippines?
This country was the intended receiver of the Zimmermann Telegram, and their task was to ______________.
Who is Mexico, and their task was to keep the United States neutral in the war (meaning they did not fight against Germany).
These are TWO ways the Treaty of Versailles punished Germany to end World War I.
What is
1. Germany has to pay excessive money.
2. Germany has to take full responsibility.
3. Germany has to limit their military and weapons.
This is the name given to the increase in migration of African Americans to Northern and Midwestern cities in the early 20th Century.
What is the Great Migration?
This is one reason used to justify imperialism.
What are
1. To spread European and/or American culture to protectorate nations
2. To acquire more wealth/resources.
This is a territory the United States acquired after the Spanish-American War.
Who are Puerto Rico or Cuba?
These are the THREE STATES Germany promised to give to Mexico in the Zimmermann Telegram, which was intercepted by Great Britain.
What are
1. New Mexico
2. Texas
3. Arizona
These are 2 countries that participated in drafting the Treaty of Versailles.
Who are Great Britain, France, and the United States?
This is how the United States' economy can be described during MOST of the 1920's and where/how we see this proven (think of the inventions we looked at!!).
What is stable/good AND we see this through the inventions that become popular during the 1920's, such as television, radio broadcasting, the Assembly Line, etc.!
This is one country that was an imperialist nation AND one country that was a protectorate country.
Who are the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, etc. (Imperialist), and the Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, etc. (Protectorates)?
This is another territory the United States acquired as a result of American imperialism in the late 19th to early 20th Centuries.
Who are Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, etc.
These are THREE REASONS why the United States abandoned neutrality and declared war on Germany in 1917.
What is
1. The sinking of the Lusitania
2. The Zimmermann Telegram
3. German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
These are TWO DIFFERENCES between President Wilson's Fourteen Points and the Treaty of Versailles.
What are
1. Treaty of Versailles blamed only Germany.
2. Wilson's 14 Points created the League of Nations.
3. Treaty of Versailles punished Germany with a large amount of war debt.
4. 14 Points told everyone to reduce their weapons; Treaty of Versailles said only Germany had to.
The United States' economy is strong in the 1920's until the end of the decade. People invest large sums of money in the stock market, and stock prices become overspeculated. What do you think overspeculation means? (Hint: Use the clues provided in the statements above!!!).
What is when stock prices become worth more than the value of the company?