Vocabulary
Imperialism &
the Spanish American War
People
WWI & New Technology
US Policy
FINAL JEOPARDY
100

This was President Roosevelt's foreign policy of protecting U.S. economic and security interests in the Western Hemisphere

What is the Big Stick Policy?

100

The needs of the U.S. Navy to quickly travel from one ocean to another after the Spanish American War motivated the construction of this in Central America. 

What is the Panama Canal?

100

This person won the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing 28 Germans and taking 128 captive during World War I. 

Who is Alvin York?

100

This step was taken by Americans at home to help conserve food for soldiers.


What is rationing? 

100

U.S. Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, feared that the U.S. would lose freedom to act on its own if they ratified this at the end of WWI. 

 What is the Treaty of Versailles?

200

This was President Taft's foreign policy of furthering American interests in Latin America by investing financially with American businesses 

What is Dollar Diplomacy?

200

The explosion of this increased political tensions between the United States and Spain.

What is the USS Maine?

200

This person helped overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and served as president and governor of Hawaii.

Who was Sanford B. Dole?

200

These were the four M A I N long-term causes of World War I

What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?

200

The U.S. returned to this policy at the end of World War I 

 What is Isolationism?

300

Enforced by the U.S. from 1899-1900, this was meant primarily to secure equal trade opportunities in China 

What is the Open Door Policy?

300

This social cause of the Spanish-American War was spread to the public through newspapers. 

What is Yellow Journalism?

300

This general led the American Expeditionary Forces, which broke the stalemate and helped win the battle of Argonne Forest.

Who was John Pershing?

300

These two new inventions led soldiers to dig trenches to avoid enemy attacks and advancement into their trenches.

What is machine guns and barbed wire?

300

This document dissolved the relationship between the US and Germany when it was intercepted by the government. 

What is the Zimmerman Telegram?

300

These were three main countries in the Central Powers AND three main countries in the Allied Powers during World War I.

What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire)?

What is England, France, United States, Russia, Serbia?

400

This was a type of warfare that Germany used during WWI and got the US involved in the war.

What is unrestricted submarine warfare?

400

American businesses protecting their economic investments in Cuba was a cause of this event. 

What is the Spanish-American War?

400

His assassination led to Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, which triggered the beginning of World War I.

Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

400

WWI took place between these years in the early 20th century. 

What is 1914 and 1918?

400

The Espionage & Sedition Acts limited which Constitutionally protected rights during wartime.

What is 1st Amendment or Freedom of Speech?

500

This type of defense in WWI was sometimes called a "fox-hole". 

What is Trench Warfare or a trench?

500

Provide TWO reasons that justified American Imperialism.

Obtain raw materials, become a world power, spread Christianity, obtain colonies, the US was superior to other groups in civilization

500

This person's theorized that a two-ocean navy would be vital in establishing America as a world power

 Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?

500

The location marked on the map below was known as this and was the main location for most WWI battles. 

What is the Western Front? 

500

According to the Treaty of Versailles Germany was required to pay these to European nations.

What is War Reparations?

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