Imperialism
A country or area under the political or military control of another country.
What is a colony?
The country that colonized Cuba before the Spanish-American War.
What is Spain?
The spark that started WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The main military tactic of WWI. Both sides dug tunnels into the ground that they lived and fought in.
What is Trench warfare?
The belief that white Westerners have a responsibility to civilize and educate people from other cultures to make them more like themselves.
What is "The White Man's Burden?"
The American battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 266 American sailors. The main cause of the Spanish-American War.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
A coded message that was sent from Germany to Mexico, proposing a military alliance against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
The agreement that officially ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The country that the United States purchased the Alaskan Territory from for $7.2 Million.
What is Russia?
Fake news/clickbait that angered the American public and pushed the American Government towards war.
What is Yellow Journalism?
German naval tactic during World War I that involved using submarines to sink merchant and passenger ships without warning.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
These new advances in military technology made WWI one of the most deadly wars in history.
What are machine guns, tanks, and airplanes?
The reasons that a country might Support imperialism.
What are new economic opportunities, access to raw materials, spreading constitutional values, and competing with European imperialism?
The expansion of the United States' political, economic, cultural, media, and military influence beyond its borders. Began after the Spanish-American War
What is American Imperialism?
This passenger liner was sunk by German U-Boats, killing 1,195 people, including 123 American citizens.
What is the Lusitania?
The countries in the Central Powers. (Bad Guys)
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and The Ottoman Empire?
The reasons that a country might oppose/disagree with imperialism.
What are violating the rights of native people, because U.S. used to be a colony, and wanting to stay neutral?
The territories that the United States gained at the end of the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
The M-A-I-N causes of WWI.
What are Militarization, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
The countries in the Triple Entente or Allied Powers. (Good Guys)
What are Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, USA?