Timely Terms
This expands on the Monroe Doctrine to say that the U. S. will now actively work to stabilize Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
This invention caused a stalemate on the battlefields of Europe.
What is the machine gun?
Teddy Roosevelt organized this group of Texas ranchers, college students, and Mexican workers to invade Cuba.
What are the Rough Riders?
These are the MAIN causes of WWI.
What are: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
This is the controlling of another nation, militarily or economically to exploit its resources.
What is Imperialism?
This group was made up of Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire in WWI.
What are the Central Powers?
Invented to break the stalemate, this invention caused burned skin, blindness and suffocation.
What are poison gasses? (Mustard Gas or Chlorine Gas)
This ship exploded in Havana Harbor killing 266 American servicemen.
What is the Maine?
This event sparked WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This policy is how Roosevelt strong armed Latin American countries under the Roosevelt Corollary.
What is the "Big Stick" policy?
This U.S. President placed less emphasis on military force and more on helping Latin America through "Dollar Diplomacy".
This German invention was used to sink ships.
What are U-boats? (submarines)
The Spanish American War was fought in this Caribbean nation.
What is Cuba?
In this document, Germany asked Mexico to attack the United States in exchange for the land that the U.S. took from it after the Mexican American War.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A strong devotion to the interests and culture of one’s own nation above all others.
This naval strategist and the author of, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that national prosperity and power depended on control of the world's sea-lanes.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This invention actually broke the stalemate.
What are tanks?
The Spanish American War was fought in this Pacific nation.
What is the Philippines?
This continued German act, on the high seas, helped bring the U.S. into WWI
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
What are Victory Gardens?
These two men manipulated the public into buying papers and declaring war on Spain, though yellow journalism. Name one.
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?
The use of this new invention led to a new kind of combat called "dogfights."
What is an airplane?
The United States took these four territories from Spain with the conclusion of the Spanish American War.
What are Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
Woodrow Wilson's proposal to end the war, which included a League of Nations.
What are the 14 Points?