The Spanish-American War
America fought the Spanish-American War to help liberate this country from Spanish control.
What is Cuba?
His assassination was the spark that ignited WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This kind of warfare was made infamous during WWI.
What is trench warfare?
How a country interacts with other countries is known as...
What is foreign policy?
These four countries met at the Palace of Versaille to plan how to rebuild Europe after the war.
What is the United States of America, England, France, and Italy.
This US territory was won in the Spanish-American war and is a popular tourist destination and is the birthplace of Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor.
What is Puerto Rico?
Americans believed the Spanish sunk this US battleship in 1898.
What is the USS Maine?
The sinking of this ship in 1915 was an event that moved America toward war.
What is the Lusitania?
The area between two opposing countries' trenches.
What is "No Man's Land?"
This form of sensationalized reporting was a factor in pushing the US to war in 1898.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The treaty they ended up signing came to be knows as...
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
This type of diplomacy closely associated with Teddy Roosevelt was said to be based on an African Proverb.
What is big stick diplomacy?
This future president led the "Rough Riders" into battle in Cuba.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This president declared "neutrality" on behalf of Americans, before sending a "war message" just a few years later.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
A German wartime policy that declared that any ships helping the enemy were possible targets for attack. This also helped move the U.S. away from neutrality and closer to entering the war.
What is "Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?"
The policy of extending a nation’s power and influence through diplomacy and/or military force.
What is imperialism?
A precursor to the United Nations, this organization was formed at the end of WWI, was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, and was the only one of Wilson's 14 Points that was outright adopted.
What is the League of Nations?
This great American author described himself as an anti-imperialist, and was "opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."
Who is Mark Twain?
The American President during the Spanish-American war.
Who is William Mckinley?
This document proposed a secret alliance between Germany and Mexico and convinced many in the America to support American involvement in the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
MAIN, used to describe the causes of WWI, stands for...
What is militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
The policy of keeping to oneself and not interfering in the politics of other countries.
What is isolationism?
The principles President Wilson presented as a way to achieve lasting peace in Europe after the war were known as this.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
This former Spanish colony in the Pacific fought its own war for independence against the United States.
What is the Philippines?
This former Spanish colony in the Pacific ocean rebelled against American control after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
These three empires formed made up the "Central Powers" in World War I.
What is Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire?
These 1917 and 1918 laws made it illegal to speak out against the war effort.
What is the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act 1918?
These 3 countries made up the Triple Entente (pronounced on-tawnt), an alliance and pact that promised one would come to the defense of the other.
What is Russia, Great Britain, and France?
The name of the treaty that officially ended the Spanish-American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This fella was president during the Spanish American War and was the 3rd American President to be assassinated.
Who is William McKinley?