Vocabulary
What does 'Nationalism' mean?
Pride in your country/prioritizing your country over others/thinking your country is better than others
Military or economic: Desire to obtain raw materials and have new markets to trade with
Economic
President of the US during WWI.
Woodrow Wilson
True or false: Some of the fighting in WWI happened in the United States.
False
Which country received blame for starting WWI?
Germany
Soldiers dig tunnels, shoot at enemies from these tunnels, live in them for weeks at a time, diseases spread rapidly in them
Trench Warfare
Why were some American workers opposed to Imperialism? (There is more than one right answer)
Wages would be lowered, jobs would be moved to the colonies, there would be increases competition for jobs.
Most historians agree that the assassination of ________ was a cause of WWI.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Where did the US build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Panama
What did Yellow Journalism regarding the Cuban Revolution lead to?
Americans supporting a war for Cuban independence.
What term in being described: Belief that some humans were more evolved than others, and should rule over less evolved humans.
Social Darwinism
Originally meant America was "destined" to own/control all land west of Mississippi River, was later used to justify American Imperialism.
Manifest Destiny
This committee produced propaganda for the US leading up to and during WWI.
Committee on Public Information
What happened to the Philippines after the Spanish-American war?
They were annexed by the US
Germanys' use of this Naval warfare was one reason the US joined WWI.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Advertisements that include sensationalized or biased information to change the way people think. (Not yellow journalism)
Propaganda
Members of these ethnic groups in America fought in WWI partially as an effort to prove their patriotism.
African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans
This telegram offered Mexico help in reclaiming lost territory if they would aid Germany in WWI.
Zimmerman Telegram
This country rapidly industrialized to avoid the same fate as China.
Japan
Why was the sinking of the Lusitania was a reason that America joined WWI?
American lives were lost
Belief that American culture is the best and should be protected from influence by immigration.
Nativism
Importing tariff free sugar, pineapple plantations, and strategic location for a Naval base are all motivations for the annexation of what eventual state?
Hawaii
Who wrote the book 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History'?
Alfred T. Mahan
True or false: Cuba was annexed by the US after the Spanish American War.
False
Why were Alliances/The Alliance system a cause of WWI?
It spread the conflict to several countries