Vocabulary
Important People
Foreign Policy
Spanish-American War
Miscellaneous
100
Nation who is controlled and protected by another.
Protectorate
100
25th president who was assassinated.
William McKinley
100
Roosevelt's foreign policy approach.
Speak softly and carry a big stick
100
The country the war was mainly fought in.
Cuba
100
Fanatical Chinese insurgency against Christians and foreigners during the early 1900s.
Boxer Rebellion
200
News created or exaggerated to attract readers.
Yellow Journalism
200
Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia.
William Henry Seward
200
William Howard Tafts policy for Latin America.
Dollar Diplomacy
200
This event caused the United States to join the war.
Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
200
Used to represent how powerful the United States Navy was.
Great White Fleet
300
Increasing territorial boundaries by means of military aggression.
Expansionism
300
President who said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore Roosevelt
300
The philosophy that only the strongest nations deserve to survive and should eliminate weaker nations or races as part of nature's law.
International Darwinism
300
President of the United States during the war?
William McKinley
300
Waterway established by President Roosevelt linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Panama Canal
400
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Imperialism
400
Group of voluntary calvary who fought in the Spanish-American War.
Rough Riders
400
Policy that allowed the Unites States to trade with China during the early 1900s.
Open Door Policy
400
Decisive land battle of the Spanish-American War that ensured American victory.
Battle of San Juan Hill
400
War between Japan and Russia over Korea and Manchuria
Russo-Japanese War
500
American belief in Manifest Destiny.
Jingoism
500
Wrote the book, The Influences of Sea Power Upon History that inspired the creation of the navy for the United States of America.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
500
The United States had the right to meddle in Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary
500
Where Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet helping the United States win the Spanish-American War?
Phillipines
500
Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain and later the United States.
Emilio Aguinaldo
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