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This was the policy of staying out of world affairs.
This man-made waterway across the Isthmus of Panama connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and greatly shortened global shipping routes.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is a belief or feeling of strong loyalty and pride in one’s country, often placing its interests above those of other nations.
What is nationalism?
This is an agreement to stop fighting during a war, often as a first step toward a peace treaty, such as the one that ended the fighting in World War I on November 11, 1918.
What is an armistice?
This international organization was created after World War I to promote peace and cooperation among countries, though the United States never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
This is the policy of powerful countries seeking to control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries.
What is imperialism?
This narrow strip of land connects two larger land areas and has water on both sides.
What is an isthmus?
This is a belief or policy that a country should build up and maintain a strong military in order to be prepared for war.
What is militarism?
This 1917 U.S. law required men to register for military conscription so the government could draft soldiers for World War I.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This was President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for post–World War I peace, calling for things like open diplomacy, free trade, and the creation of an international peace organization.
What are the Fourteen Points?
In 1899, Secretary of State John Hay sent a letter to all nations that had spheres of influence in China to "keep the door open" for this policy towards China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This U.S. foreign policy, associated with President Woodrow Wilson, aimed to support democratic nations and oppose dictatorships through moral principles rather than force.
This group of nations, including Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, fought against the Allied Powers in World War I
What are the Central Powers?
These were war bonds sold by the U.S. government during World War I to help finance the war effort, encouraging citizens to lend money to the government.
What are Liberty Bonds?
This 1919 peace agreement officially ended World War I and placed heavy reparations and restrictions on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This type of journalism relied on sensationalist reporting and was used to drum up support for the Spanish American War.
What is yellow journalism?
This U.S. foreign policy, associated with President William Howard Taft, encouraged using American investment and business interests to extend influence abroad.
What is dollar diplomacy?
This type of combat during World War I involved soldiers fighting from long, narrow ditches dug into the ground, often leading to stalemates and harsh conditions.
What is trench warfare?
This was the largest and one of the final major offensives of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, helping push German forces toward defeat.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
These are payments made by a defeated country to compensate for the damage it caused during a war, such as the large payments imposed on Germany after World War I.
What are reparations?
This amendment allowed the United States to interfere in Cuban affairs and made Cuba a protectorate of the US.
This extension of the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries to maintain stability and prevent European involvement.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, helping shift public opinion in the United States toward entering World War I.
What is the Lusitania?
This secret message sent by Germany to Mexico proposed a military alliance against the United States during World War I and helped push the U.S. closer to entering the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
These were territories taken from the defeated Central Powers after World War I and placed under the control of League of Nations member countries to govern.
What are mandates?