Imperialism
A country extending its power by dominating other countries for profit.
What is imperialism?
Land acquired after the Mexican-American War
What is Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
What is yellow journalism?
Foreign policy of policing the Caribbean
What is the Big Stick Policy?
Archduke of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on
Who is Germany?
Created to protect soldiers from the effects of poison gas
What are gas masks?
Officially ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Military Reasons for US Imperialism
- Strong navy to protect economic interests
- Bases for ships to refuel ships
- strong presence around the world
Reasons for the annexation of Hawaii
Economic: Resources (sugar and fruit plantations)
Military: Pearl Harbor
Ship that sank which led to the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine?
Shorten travel routes and collect fees for ships traveling through the canal.
What are the benefits of owning the Panama Canal?
Germany was building a Navy to rival Great Britain.
What is militarism? or What caused alliances?
Used to help pay for the war
What are war bonds?
Used to overcome trench defenses and end stalemates
What are tanks?
Blamed for WWI, severe restrictions were placed on them
Who is Germany?
Economic Reasons for US Imperialism
- New markets to sell goods
- Raw materials
Land the US purchased from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
What is Alaska?
The US blamed this country for the sinking of the USS Maine
Who is Spain?
A place that the US bought from France to shorten travel routes.
What is the Panama Canal?
3 countries that made up the Central Powers of WWI
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Domestic policy that drafted men ages 18-25 for war.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917?
A new style of warfare that extended the war and made advancement impossible.
What is Trench Warfare?
President Wilson's plan for world peace
What is Wilson's 14 Points?
The policy that opened trade in China to all major nations.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Man who became governor of Hawaii
Who is Sanford Dole?
Territories the US gained from the Spanish-American War
What are Puerto Rico, parts of Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines
The US gave them independence but maintained political influence.
What is Cuba?
the 3 countries that made up the Triple Entente of WWI
Who are Great Britain, France, and Russia?
The sinking of Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
What are the reasons for US entry into WWI?
This was used to attack soldiers within the trenches.
What is poison gas?
After WWI the US adopts this political policy to deal with the world.
What is isolationism?
Wrote the book "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" that encouraged leaving Navy bases on islands
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
The US purchased it from France, finished building it, and possessed it until 1999.
What is the Panama Canal?
Effects of the Spanish-American War
- established the US as a world power
- US gained territory
After policing the Caribbean, the US extended its Imperialism here.
What is Latin America?
European countries making agreements to aid one another if attacked.
What are alliances?
Passed in 1917 that made it a crime for any person to share information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces or to promote the success of the country's enemies
What is the Espionage Act?
Used as recognizance to observe enemy troops and led to forces adding machine guns
What are airplanes?
World organization created, but the US doesn't join.
What is the League of Nations?