A main goal of the US during the Spanish American War was to free __________ from Spain.
What is free?
100
What happened to Cuba as a result of the Spanish American War?
Cuba got their independence.
100
Name 2 of the 4 MAIN causes of WWI
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
100
What British passenger ship was torpedoed to bring the US into World War I?
What is the Lusitania?
100
Author of the Fourteen Points
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
The colony of Spain that was the site of the beginning of the Spanish American War.
What is Cuba?
200
Promised Mexico parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if they sided with Germany; convinced the US to declare war against Germany
YES I know this question doesn't belong in this category =)
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
What was the "spark" or immediate cause of WWI?
What is the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
200
At the beginning of World War I, President Wilson declared American ___________________, which meant that the US was not going to choose sides in the war.
What is neutrality?
200
The purpose of this organization was to enable nations to solve their conflicts without going to war.
What is the League of Nations?
300
Exaggerated newspaper reports which led to the outbreak of war by blaming Spain for the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor
What is yellow journalism?
300
An important result of the Spanish American War was that the US emerged as a __________________ with an overseas empire.
world power
300
The countries fighting the Allies during WWI were called this
What are the Central Powers?
300
Give two reasons for US entry into WWI
What is the Zimmerman telegram, sinking of the Lusitania, submarine warfare, close ties with Great Britain, blockade, inability to remain neutral...
300
country that refused to join the League of Nations
What is the United States?
400
This ship exploded in Havana Harbor, yellow journalists blamed it on Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
400
The three territories which the US gained possession of as a result of the Spanish American War
What are the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico?
400
Name all four Central Powers
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire?
400
A plan to prevent future world wars and create the League of Nations, proposed by Woodrow Wilson
What is the Fourteen Points?
400
The policy of taking control of the political and economic affairs of other countries
What is imperialism?
500
Name of the diverse cavalry unit led by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish American War
What is the Rough Riders?
500
After the Spanish American War, American desire for expansionism resulted in the annexation of this territory, which later became our 50th state.
What is Hawaii?
500
List five Allied Powers
What are Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, United States?
500
The treaty that ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
Why didn't the US join the League of Nations?
Americans wanted to return to the tradition of isolationism