Early US/Expansion
What is the belief in the United States that its settlers were destined and justified to expand across North America?
Manifest Destiny
What is the name of the channel was built by Roosevelt after conducting a revolt in Columbia. It was established by the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?
Panama Canal
What was the location of an attack led by the Japanese on American troops during WW2 that is typically honored on December 7,1941?
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
What two World superpowers were "fighting" each other during the Cold War?
The United States and the Soviet Union.
Which president presented the "New World Order" speech?
President George Herbert Walker Bush.
The Mexican-American War ended with what treaty that gave the US a giant sum of land known as the Mexican Recession for $15 million?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
What state used to be a country until US settlers from there overthrew their queen, which was annexed in 1898 because of the Philippine War?
Hawaii
What country did we lend resources for as a result of the Lend-Lease Act?
Britain
What was the Domino Theory?
That if one country fell to Communism the surrounding countries would fall like dominoes. (Eisenhower)
Why did US send troops to Bosnia?(1995)
For a peacekeeping mission
What phrase is known to describe the British raiding US merchant ships and occasionally stealing possible British crew members that were believed to be runaways from their harsh navy?
British Impressment
What was the addition to the Monroe Doctrine justified the US to intervene to stop chronic unrest & wrongdoing in Western Hemisphere?
Roosevelt Corollary (Big Stick Policy)
What phrase is used to describe when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
What is communism?
A political ideology that derive from Karl Marx all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What did Kuwaiti's have that Iraq wanted?
Oil fields in Persian Gulf for oil transportation.
What state was originally a part of a bigger section of land that the US and Britain were the last ones fighting for, so they split it in half along the 49th Parallel?
Oregon
What two treaties with Cuba and the US restricted Cuba in their foreign policies with others? One stated the US had no intention of taking over Cuba, but the other stated they will intervene with its foreign affairs and keep the US’s naval bases.
Teller Amendment and Platt Amendment
What policy states, "Nations should not intervene in the affairs of other nations and that their relations should be to the benefit of both"?
Good Neighbor Policy
What event led the US to entering the Vietnam War?
The Gulf of Tonkin incident.
What was the Bush Doctrine?
Goal was to take out terrorist operatives and supporters around the world.
What were the four things that Washington said to avoid in his Farewell Address?
Involvement in European Affairs
Permanent foreign alliances
Political Parties
Sectionalism
What 3 countries were able to be claimed by the US because of the Treaty of Paris of 1898, which ended the Spanish-American War?
Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico
Germany was blamed for the first World War, so they were forced to do what things to pay back the rest of countries? (Name 3)
Limit the army
Give back land to other countries
Get rid of the air force
Pay back millions in reparations
What year did the Soviet Union dissolve and how many countries was it divided into?
The Soviet Union dissolved on December 25th 1991 and was divided into 15 separate countries.
Who was president during pre 9-11?
Regan