Imperialism
The policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism?
The two alliances in WWI were
This event led to the deaths over nearly 1,200 people, including over 100 Americans
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
Information spread by a group or government used to promote certain causes and ideas or to damage opposing causes and ideas.
What is propaganda?
What is reject?
The three tools of foreign policy are
What are diplomacy, financial aid, and threat/use of armed force?
A strong feeling of pride in and loyalty to a nation or ethnic group is called ___________.
What is nationalism?
A movement led by former president Theodore Roosevelt that called on the government to increase U.S. military strength and convince Americans of the need for U.S. involvement in the war.
What is the preparedness movement?
A government agency created to promote pro-war propaganda to the American public.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
A commitment by many countries to join together to deal with a nation that threatens peace is known as __________.
What is collective security?
After the Mexican-American War, the US gained __________ from Mexico.
What is the region between California and Texas?
This is the policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war.
What is militarism?
The German military policy of staging submarine attacks on Allied and neutral nations' unarmed ocean liners without advance warning
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
As production of war materials increased, thousands of new jobs in steel and auto factories opened in the North. Many African Americans migrated North to take advantage of these opportunities, in what became known as the
What is the Great Migration?
The Big Four Nations at the Paris Peace Conference
What are the United States, Britain, France, and Italy?
This event caused many Americans to call for war against Spain.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
This event was the "spark" that led Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia, thus beginning WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
In this message, Germany promised that it would help Mexico regain territory lost to the US, if Mexico entered the war.
What is the Zimmermann telegram?
This act made it illegal to resist the military draft, and established severe penalties for spying, sabotage, and vaguely defined "obstruction of the war effort."
What is the Espionage Act?
In the debate over the Treaty of Versailles, the reservationists were mainly concerned about
What is Article 10 of the League of Nations charter?
The US gained these territories as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
The "I" in MAIN stands for
What is imperialism?
President Wilson threatened to end diplomatic relations with Germany if it continued surprise attacks so Germany agreed to spare all lives in any future U-boat attacks on merchant ships, in an agreement called the
What is the Sussex Pledge?
According to this Supreme Court case, free speech can be denied when a clear and present danger exists.
What is Schenck v. United States?
Point 1 of Wilson's Fourteen Points...
What is prevented countries from making secret treaties or alliances that had caused World War I?