Crisis Time
Imperial Designs
Not Teddy, Not Yet
"A Splendid Little War"
Foreign Policy
Race, Citizenship, and Imperialism
Road to WWI
M.A.I. or N?
100
Where monetary policy is not only determined by the amount of Gold the government holds, but also by the amount of Silver in its stock. This was a major policy proposal put forward by the Populists and William Jennings Bryan.
What is bimetallism
100
Writer John Fiske echoed this popular belief at the time, when he predicted in 1885 that the English-speaking people of the world would eventually control every land that was not the seat of an "established civilization." That nations, were like biological species, and they struggled for survival and supremacy.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
At the time war with Cuba broke out, Teddy Roosevelt was a high ranking civilian official in this military branch
What is the U.S. Navy?
100
At the same time Cuba was engulfed in a violent revolt, American publishers were engaged in a ruthless circulation war at home. The uprising helped sell newspapers and this type of journalism helped shape public opinion against the Spanish monarchy and support for U.S. intervention.
What is Yellow Journalism?
100
More idealistic than practical, this President's "Moral" Diplomacy tried to center American Foreign efforts by promoting democratic movements in other countries and away from the military force of "Big Stick" or the financial persuasion of "Dollar" Diplomacy.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
Some Americans justified imperialism because this group was superior to other races; different in character and intelligence suitable for self-determination
Who are Anglo-Saxons
100
Even though the official policy of the United States government at the outset of WWI was neutrality, The Preparedness Movement, or voluntary military training was supported by this political leader
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
100
Both Russia and France, which had been humiliated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, feared the rising power of Germany. This event really solidified the system of main antagonistic blocs that went to war in 1914
What are Alliances
200
This strike in 1894 resulted in the stoppage of railroads and commerce in 27 states. Coupled with the Homestead strike, it created fear and anxiety for many the country was on the brink of revolution.
What is the Pullman Strike?
200
In 1893, American planted staged a coup in this pacific nation and called for U.S. protection. They hoped being part of the United States would remove high tariffs on their exports.
What is Hawaii?
200
Teddy Roosevelt's passion to join the fight in Cuba reflected his desire to correct his father's reluctance to fight in this major war:
What is the Civil War?
200
May 1, 1898- First shots of the Spanish-American war are fired not in Cuba, but in this pacific imperial territory.
What is the Philippines?
200
This revolutionary Mexican leader was pursued unsuccessfully by U.S. forces after his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916.
Who is Pancho Villa?
200
The Haymarket Affair of 1886 contributed to fears about immigrants introducing these political ideologies into American society.
What is socialism and/or anarchism?
200
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were murdered in the Balkan city
What is Sarajevo
200
First German Naval Law, (1898)
This legislation, advocated by Germany’s newly-appointed Secretary of the Imperial Navy, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, dramatically expanded the size of Germany’s battle fleet. It was the first of five laws dictating a buildup in which the Germans envisioned building a force that was superior to Britain’s Royal Navy.
What is Militarism
300
Started when the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was unable to meet payments on loans. A shock reverberated through the economy, leading to the collapse of the stock market and a wave of bank failures. Within six months- 8,000 businesses, 156 railroads, and 400 banks failed.
What is the Panic of 1893?
300
The Cleveland administration took an active interest in Latin American affairs and upholding the Monroe Doctrine. A major test to their commitment occurred in 1895 when Venezuela was involved in a border dispute with this major European power over land where gold was discovered.
What is Great Britain?
300
Famous Volunteer group of Cavalry soldiers during the Spanish-American War. One big band of misfits: bankers, cowboys, polo players, criminals, and one future president of the United States.
Who are the Rough Riders
300
Sent to the Philippines in 1900, General Arthur MacArthur made the assessment that the rebels were not a small following. Declaring "I have been reluctantly compelled to believe that the Filipino masses are loyal to" this man whom is actually at the head the government.
this man whom is actually at the head the government.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
300
This extension of the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 declared that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American countries to stabilize economic affairs and prevent European interference.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
Before the Spanish-American War, and rapid immigration as a result of industrialization in the late 1800s, The U.S. acquired a large number of Catholics after it fought a war with this country in the 1840s.
What is Mexico?
300
Strip of land along the German-French border, a cause of contention and a matter of national pride.
Alsace-Lorraine
300
Italo-Turkish War 1911
The modern Italian state, which didn’t begin until 1861, had been “largely left out of the scramble that built Britain, France, and other powers into worldwide empires," The Italian government set its sights on Libya, a North African country that hadn’t been claimed by another Western European power, and decided to take it from the Ottoman Empire. The Italo-Turkish War ended with a peace treaty, but the Ottoman military left Libya and let the Italians seize it. It was the first military conflict that featured aerial bombing
What is Imperialism
400
Populists emphatically rejected a major principle of American Industrial capitalism, the belief government should take a hands-off approach to matters of regulating business
What is Laissez-faire?
400
Seized during the Spanish-American war and held by the military until the Foraker Act ended military occupation, It was not until 1917 that congress passed the Jones Act, declaring this island an American territory and its inhabitants American citizens.
What is Puerto Rico?
400
Before becoming Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he served in this city post. He ensured officers walked their beat and did not take bribes. His decision to enforce an unpopular law that banned the sale of alcohol in saloons on Sundays made him a very unpopular figure in New York, but he persisted in the crusade even after receiving two letter bombs in the mail.
What is Commissioner of the Police/ Police Commissioner/ NYPD Commissioner.
400
Represents what Kipling argued was Americans' duty as representatives of a modern and "civilized" Christian society
What is "White Man's Burden"?
400
America played a moderating role in negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905 with the goal to end:
What is the Russo-Japanese War
400
Imperialism offered a new kind of mission for American creativity and spirit by some proponents because the director of the U.S. Census bureau in 1890 declared this was "closed"
What is the Frontier
400
Ethnic Self-determination motivated this slavic country to demand independence from the Austro-Hungarian empire. These people are my Mr. B's people
What is Poland
400
The Balkan Wars (1912-13)
In the First Balkan War in 1912, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro defeated Ottoman forces, and forced them to agree to an armistice. But the Balkan League soon disintegrated, and in the Second Balkan War, the Bulgarians fought the Greeks and Serbs over Macedonia, and the Ottoman Empire and Romania jumped into the fray against the Bulgarians as well.
Bulgaria ultimately was defeated. The Balkan Wars made the region even more unstable. In the power void left by the Ottomans, tensions grew between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. That, in turn, led Austria-Hungary and its ally, Germany, to decide that a war with the Serbs would be needed at some point to strengthen Austria-Hungary’s position.
What is Militarism
500
Ohio businessman and populist that gained attention in 1894 for leading a band of 500 unemployed men to Washington D.C. to advocate for a massive government-funded public works program and get people back to work.
Who is Jacob S. Coxey/ What is Coxey's Army
500
Apostle of Imperialism. American naval officer. His Thesis was simple: Countries with a sea power were great nations of history. U.S. Greatness would rest on its ability to build up its naval strength.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
500
Between 1895 and 1901, Teddy Roosevelt had a total of 6 jobs- Police Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Rough Rider, Governor of this state, Vice-President, and President.
What is New York?
500
When the newly independent Cuba drew up their constitution with no reference to the U.S., congress responded by passing this in 1901 and pressuring Cuba to incorporate it in to their founding document. It barred Cuba from making treaties with other nations and also gave U.S. right to intervene militarily in times of crisis.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
This April 1914 incident involving U.S. sailors in a Mexican port led President Wilson to order the occupation of mexican territory, the collection of customs duties, and confiscation of weapons
What is the Tampico Incident/ Veracruz
500
Negotiated by Theodore Roosevelt, this unofficial agreement between Japan and the United States in 1907 limited Japanese immigration to the U.S. while addressing racial tensions on the West Coast.
What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
500
Progressive Reformer Jane Addams, suffragists, and other social reformers formed the American Union Against Militarism advocating for this....
What is Peace/ The Peace Movement
500
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914)
The archduke, who was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, went to Sarajevo to inspect the imperial troops stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He and his wife Sophie were shot to death in their car by a 19-year-old Serbian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip.
“The assassination highlighted the ______________ that was pulling the Austro-Hungarian Empire apart at the seams,” noting that Serbian extremists actually wanted Franz Ferdinand dead because they feared he was too moderate and would promote a power-sharing arrangement that would keep Slavic peoples in the empire.
What is Nationalism
600
The Grange was a political party formed by Oliver H. Kelley in 1867, a minor government official. Appalled by the drabness and isolation of rural life. It was the grandfather to this political movement. Ceasing to exist after William Jennings Bryan's defeat during the 1896 presidential election.
What is the Populist Party?
600
Proposed by Secretary of State John Hay, This plan hoped to avoid wars with the other great powers, allow American access to trade with China, and maintain the illusion of Chinese Sovereignty and preventing colonial dismemberment
What is Open Door Note/ Open Door Policy?
600
Republican Mark Hanna objected when this man named Roosevelt his running mate:
“Don’t any of you realize there’s only one life between this madman and the presidency?”
Who is William McKinley?
600
This was an important event for the role of the United States. Not only were troops sent in 1900, but it also placed the U.S. as head of a multinational coalition. It also helped Hay and Mckinley get support from other great powers for their Open-Door approach in China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
600
This fleet of 16 battleships, painted bright, toured the globe from 1907-1909 to demonstrate U.S. naval power.
What is the Great White Fleet?
600
This term describes the anxiety among native-born Americans about the ability of immigrant groups to assimilate into white Protestant society. It is also the name given to any group or movement that favors the rights of native population over immigrants.
What is Nativism?
600
By September 1914, both sides dug in and fortified their lines, it became apparent the war had reached this, where neither side was able to gain an advantage to win
What is Stalemate
600
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Russia’s Czar Nicholas II wanted to obtain a port that gave his navy and commercial ships access to the Pacific, and he set his sites on Korea. The Japanese saw Russia’s rising aggressiveness as a menace and launched a surprise attack on Nicholas’ fleet at Port Arthur in China. The resulting war, fought both at sea and on land in China, was won by the Japanese, and it helped shift the power balance in Europe.
What is Imperialism
700
With the exception of Grover Cleveland, Democrats would not win a presidential election in the post civil war period until 1912, when the Republican party was split between William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party. He won with a very thin margin. Winning again in 1916 with another thin margin.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
700
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis lamented an end to this early call for expansion that settled the west and unified the continent. The fact that the Frontier was declared closed in 1893 did not stop renewed calls that America's future prospects now lay abroad.
What is Manifest Destiny?
700
Teddy Roosevelt boldly led a charge up Kettle Hill. Though 100 soldiers died around him, and he called it the "Greatest day of my life," It was minor part of a larger battle, which he would be called the hero of.
What is The Battle of San Juan Hill
700
Before he would become Roosevelt's successor and one-term president, he served as the first civilian governor of the Philippines. Announcing that his role was to prepare the island and its people for eventual independence.
Who is William H. Taft?
700
American General, he was ordered by Wilson to pursue Pancho Villa south of the border in Mexico, from March 1916, until March 1917. Recalled home to prepare American ground forces for World War One.
Who is John J. "Blackjack" Pershing
700
With growing Urbanization, a sense of growing disconnection from nature, and popularity of the "frontier mentality," with its emphasis on building moral character, self-sufficiency, and grit; Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a former army officer of the British Empire founded this organization. Its first chapter opened in the United States in 1910
What is the Boy Scouts/ The Boy Scout Movement
700
Germany did not think it needed to de-escalate; On August 1st, 1914- German military leaders implemented this plan they had long prepared for a day like this; slicing through France and turning its attention to Russia and ending the war quickly on their terms. It was an Epic Failure.
What is the Schlieffen Plan
700
Under an 1878 treaty, Austria-Hungary was governing Bosnia and Herzegovina, even though technically they were still part of the Ottoman Empire. But after the Austro-Hungarian government annexed their territory in 1908, the move backfired. The two provinces’ mostly Slavic population wanted to have their own country, while Slavs in nearby Serbia had the ambition of appropriating the provinces themselves.
What is Nationalism