Causes of Imperialism
This belief claimed that stronger nations were destined to dominate weaker ones and was used to justify imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This policy called for equal trade access for all nations in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This system of deep defensive ditches along the Western Front created long stalemates in WWI.
What is trench warfare?
The government used this type of information campaign to boost morale and gain public support for the war.
What is propaganda?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This war in 1898 helped launch the United States as a global imperial power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This foreign policy addition allowed the U.S. to intervene in Latin America to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This helped pull multiple countries into World War I after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What are alliances?
This law required American men to register for the military draft during WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This U.S. President proposed the "Fourteen Points," though many were ignored in the final treaty.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped trigger the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This engineering project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and was important for trade and military movement.
What is the Panama Canal?
Germany’s policy of attacking all ships around Britain was called this.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
President Wilson justified entering WWI by saying the U.S. must make the world safe for this.
What is democracy?
This international organization was proposed to maintain peace after WWI, but the United States refused to join.
What is the League of Nations?
The United States gained access to new overseas markets and trade opportunities after acquiring territories from this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The Roosevelt Corollary expanded this earlier doctrine that warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This secret German message proposing an alliance with Mexico pushed the U.S. closer to entering World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Civil liberties critics argued that wartime laws such as the Espionage and Sedition Acts violated this constitutional freedom.
What is the freedom of speech or 1st Amedment?
The treaty forced Germany to make large payments to Allied nations, known as these.
What are reparations?
According to supporters of imperialism, expanding American influence abroad would spread these two things: U.S. culture and __________.
What is democracy or American values or capitalism?
This US foreign policy was criticized for acting like a global police power in Latin America
What is Big Stick?
This region of southeastern Europe was known as the “Powder Keg of Europe” due to ethnic tensions and nationalism.
What are the Balkans?
In this Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that speech creating a “clear and present danger” could be limited during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
The treaty created this new nation in the Balkans, combining several smaller Slavic territories.
What is Yugoslavia?