Leaders & Foreign Policy
This president promoted Moral Diplomacy, issued the Fourteen Points, and campaigned in 1916 as the “Man Who Kept Us Out of the War.”
a. Roosevelt
b. Taft
C. Wilson
Wilson
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped push the United States toward war with Spain
Sinking of the MAINE
This idea claimed that stronger nations had a duty to civilize weaker ones and was used to justify imperialism.
White Man's Burden
What is yellow journalism?
Sensationalized newspaper reporting that exaggerated events to sell papers helped increase support for war.
Taft's Foreign Policy was centered around "Dollar Diplomacy" which meant...
a. spending money on Western European infrastructure to take advantage of their markets
b. loaning money to South & Central American companies to have in-direct control of these countries economies
c. creating equal trade partnerships with island nations in the Pacific on the way to trade with China
b. loaning money to South & Central American companies to have in-direct control of these countries economies
The U.S. debate over keeping this territory after the Spanish-American War centered on economic benefits, strategic location, racism, and fears of foreign entanglements. Name the region
Philippines
Explain how NEW MARKETS would drive imperialism or expansionism
Teacher check
What are the FIVE causes of WWI?
*could you recognize them when you see them?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Teddy Roosevelt was known for his "Big Stick" foreign policy, and for adding the Roosevelt Corollary to expectations about US presence abroad. What did the Roosevelt Corollary do?
U.S. would intervene in Latin American affairs to prevent European intervention, acting as an "international police power" to ensure stability, repay debts, and protect U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere, justifying numerous American military actions in the region
The Platt Amendment after the Spanish American war did WHAT to Cuba?
granting the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs to preserve independence, build naval bases (like Guantánamo Bay), and limit Cuba's foreign treaties
This German telegram promising Mexico U.S. territory if it joined the war against the United States helped push America into WWI.
Zimmerman Telegram?
Identify and describe ONE reason why WWI was a unique and deadly conflict
1. Total War
2. Technology
3. Trench Warfare