Vocabulary
a biased form of media put out by the government in order to influence people's thoughts and/or actions
What is Propoganda?
Panama gained independence from Columbia with backing from the U.S.
A new passage was created to allow for shipping between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which was far shorter than before.
What was the effect of the Panama Canal?
Nation-states that made up the Triple Entente, or Allies, during the outset of World War I.
Who were...?
(1) Great Britain
(2) France
(3) Russia
Two controversial laws pushed by President Wilson that banned criticism of the government or the war effort during World War I.
What are...?
1) The Espionage Act
2) The Sedition Act
1) War Industries Board
2) National War Labor Board
3) The Food Administration
4) Committee on Public Information
What were the agencies, boards, or committees created during WWI to help fight the war?
In God We Trust
What is the official motto of the United States?
The Republican Senator who led the charge against the U.S. joining the League of Nations for fear it would get us into another war.
Who was Henry Cabot Lodge?
Roosevelt’s foreign policy idea of trying to make peace and negotiate.
If negotiations did not work, the U.S. would have a powerful military in order to force our will on others.
What was the “speak softly, but carry a big stick” policy?
Nation-states that made up the Central Powers at the outset of World War I.
Who were...?
(1) Germany
(2) Austria-Hungary
(3) The Ottoman Empire
1) Eddie Rickenbacker
2) Needham Roberts
3) Henry Johnson
4) Alvin York
5) John P. Perishing
Who were American war heroes that fought during World War I?
In charge of getting businesses to produce war materials rather than consumer products.
What was the War Industries Board?
The book that caused people, including President Roosevelt, to call for greater regulations on the American meat industry.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The way in which a nation deals with the relationship between them and another nation.
What is Diplomacy?
A policy created by William Howard Taft that would allow Latin American countries to borrow money from the U.S. to pay off debts to European nations.
In exchange, the U.S. would, temporarily, take control of the country's financial system and allow American businesses to operate within them.
What was “dollar diplomacy?”
Name five new technologies used by troops in WWI.
What were...?
1) Machine guns
2) Poison gas
3) Gas masks
4) Airplanes
5) Tanks
6) Flamethrowers
7) Anti-aircraft guns
The U.S. and Mexico already had poor relations because of events surrounding President Wilson’s “Missionary Diplomacy” which led to this.
What was Germany chose to encourage Mexico to attack the U.S. in 1916?
Meant to encourage people to save food.
What was the The Food Administration?
To explain the purpose of the U.S. government.
What is the purpose of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, often to the harm of the interests of other nations.
What is Nationalism?
Woodrow Wilson’s policy of not helping, or even opposing, countries who did not practice a democratic system of government.
What was “Missionary Diplomacy?”
An international organization of countries, meant to allow nations to negotiate their issues and prevent future wars.
Created after WWI as part of Wilson’s fourteen points.
What was the League of Nations?
The first group of Americans to land in France.
They fought especially aggressively, and their tactics won many major battles.
What was the American Expeditionary Force?
A propaganda group meant to keep Americans in support of the war through creation and limiting media content.
What was the Committee on Public Information?
Protecting Social Welfare
Promoting Moral Improvement
Creating Economic Reforms
Fostering Efficiency
What were the four major goals of the Progressives?
The development of a nation's military, and their use as a tool of diplomacy.
What is Militarism?
The U.S. would act as the police for North and South America.
They would deal with any issues other countries had with Latin America in order to keep European and Asian nations out of the Americas.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
A growth in European nationalism and imperial competition.
The rise of militarism.
Formation of powerful alliances.
What led to World War I?
Three things that led the U.S. to join World War I on the side of the Allies.
What was...?
1) Greater trade with members of the Triple Entente
2) German unrestricted submarine warfare (ex. sinking of the Lusitania)
3) The Zimmerman Telegram
Meant to limit the number of strikes by labor unions during the war. Often used the slogan “work or fight.”
What was the National War Labor Board?
Discovery of gold in the Klondike region of Alaska.
What was the event that brought large numbers of settlers to Alaska in the mid-1800s?
The monarch in Hawaii who opposed American annexation of the islands.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
The U.S. economic policy in China, giving European, Japanese, and American empires equal trading rights.
What was the Open Door Policy?
It banned Germany from having an army to protect itself or make war.
It harmed Germany’s economy by giving it a massive debt.
It angered Germans by placing the blame for the war on Germany.
What three major effects did the Treaty of Versailles have on Germany?
Name three American war heroes that fought during World War I.
Who were...?
1) Eddie Rickenbacker
2) Needham Roberts
3) Henry Johnson
4) Alvin York
5) John P. Perishing
Name three agencies, boards, or committees created during WWI to help fight the war.
What were the...?
1) War Industries Board
2) National War Labor Board
3) The Food Administration
4) Committee on Public Information
The Homestead Act resulted in the migration of American settlers to the Great Plains.
The American government created more military posts to protect this growing population in the region.
Why did the U.S. begin increasing the number of military posts in the western U.S.?