Reasons Imperialism
Acquisitions
World War I
14 Point Plan
Effects of WWI
100
In terms of economics, businesses needed these to sell more of their products.
What were new markets?
100
American pineapple growers overthrew the queen here and the USA annexed this island nation in 1898.
What was Hawaii?
100
The United States stayed out of the war for the first three years. American was using this foreign policy where it was only concerned with itself.
What is isolationism?
100
President Wilson's plan to keep wars from happening was called this.
What was the 14 Point Plan?
100
During the war, this nation became the first communist nation in the world.
What was Russia (which became the Soviet Union (USSR)?
200
Also, America needed more refueling ports for it's Navy known as this.
What was the Great White Fleet?
200
The United States went to war with Spain over the treatment of the Natives on this island.
What was Cuba?
200
USA declares war on the Central Powers after this telegram was made public, asking for Mexico to attack the USA.
What was the Zimmerman telegram?
200
A major component of Wilson's 14 Point Plan was to nations reduce their weapons and to allow ethnic groups to have their own country, a process known as this.
What is self determination? Before & After map of Europe after WWI - notice Poland (#9) on the right did not exist before World War I. The Polish people got their own nation!!
200
American's were very fearful that communism would come to the nation, so these people were not trusted and America stopped allowing them to come to the country.
Who were immigrants?
300
These people wanted war, in order to increase America's empire.
Who were jingoists?
300
These jingoistic newspapers fanned the flames of war after the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor in Cuba,
What was yellow journalism?
300
He was President during World War I?
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
300
This was a huge military alliance that was suppose to have all nations as members, so no one would start a war with the other.
What was the League of Nations?
300
These happened as African Americans moved from the South to the North to work in war factories during both World Wars, and also sparking the Harlem Renaissance.
What were the Great Migrations?
400
This cartoon relates to what American action taken by President McKinley in 1899
What was the Open Door Policy? The Open Door Policy gave American access to China's markets.
400
Speak Softly and carry a big stick was this president's famous phrase, as he bullied Latin America.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt's (Roosevelt Corollary)?
400
Woodrow Wilson said that America was going to war "to keep the world safe for ______________."
What is democracy?
400
Wilson's 14 Point Plan also did away with these, the main cause of World War I.
What were secret alliances?
400
This organization adopted an anti-immigration stance and became very popular during the 1920s.
What was the KKK?
500
Thanks to Teddy Roosevelt, this allowed ships and the Navy to travel much quicker between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What was the Panama Canal?
500
What three islands did America acquire after defeating Spain in the Spanish American War?
What are The Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam?
500
True or False:
American soldiers, even though they only fought during the last year of the five year war, made the difference and led the Allied Powers to victory.
What is: true?
500
America's fear of another war was the main reason why senators rejected the idea of joining the League of Nations and it was also why they never ratified this treaty.
What was the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I?
500
A negative effect of the Great Migrations (and black men in American military uniforms), was what happened in many cities in 1919, as race riots broke out across America.
What was Red Summer?