WWI at Home
Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield.
What is Trench Warfare
The idea that the U.S. should stay out of foreign disputes
What is Isolationism
Artificial waterway cut through Central America to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is Panama Canal
What were the Rough Riders?
What is Volunteer cavalry regiment commanded by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War
Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in 1914
What is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On November 11, 1918, Germany agreed to a cease-fire. This is called _______
What is Armistice
The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.
What is Imperialism
Sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure readers
What is Yellow Journalism
Which organization was made to prevent strikes from happening during the war?
National War Labor Board
This group of African Americans fought in the War! They saw intense battle!
Harlem Hellfighters
Main opponent of the U.S. joining the League of Nations
What is Henry Cabot Lodge
The U.S. policy of using the nation's economic power to exert influence over other countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
American ship sent to Cuba in 1898. It blew up in the harbor of Havana.
What is U.S.S. Maine
The four long-term causes of World War I were
What is Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Alliance System
Summarize the three main parts/goals of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
What is 1. Prevent another war 2. boundary changes 3. creation of League of Nations
The U.S. annexed this territory by force, against the will of the local residents, in 1898. This was NOT associated with a war.
What is Hawaii
Gave U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba and create new naval stations.
What is Platt Amendment
This was Warren G. Hardings quote at the Election of 1920.
Return to Normalcy
What were two examples of new technology during World War I, and what did technology result in regarding: human life
What is Zeppelin, poison gas, machine gun, airplane, trench warfare, tanks A. huge loss of life B. stalemate because neither side could move
What did the Treaty of Versailles do regarding the following: A. Germany B. League of Nations C. political boundaries
What is A. Prohibited from having an army, war reparations, war-guilt admission B. League created C. nine new nations established, other boundaries shifted
What did the Roosevelt Corollary say?
What is U.S. claimed the right to protect economic interests by means of military intervention in nations of the Western Hemisphere
What happened to each of the following in the Treaty of Paris in 1898? A. Cuba B. Guam and Puerto Rico C. Philippines
What is A. Independence B. given to U.S. C. sold to U.S. for $20 million