Imperialism
Spanish-American War
Diplomacy
WWI - Start
WWI - End
100
What is the definition of Imperialism?
What is the attempt by stronger nations to create empires by dominating weaker nations – economically, politically, culturally, or militarily.
100
Reporting that exaggerates the news to lure new readers
What is Yellow Journalism
100
This form of diplomacy gave the United States "international police power"
What is Big Stick Diplomacy
100

Name two of the three causes of WWI

What is unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram.  

100
This act established a draft in the US
What is the Selective Service Act
200
Promoting the spread of Christianity would fall under which expansion category?
What is Humanitarian
200
These two events directly influenced the U.S. entrance into the war with Spain.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine and the De Lome Letter.
200
Which President supported Missionary Diplomacy?
Who is President Wilson
200

How did the majority of Americans feel about US involvement in WWI at the start of the war

Not an American problem (isolationist)

200
This Allied country left the war in 1917
What is Russia
300
Establishing naval bases around the Pacific is an example of which motive for expansion?
What is Military
300
The majority of the Spanish American War was fought in two countries. Name one.
What is Philippines and Cuba
300
Why was the US take over of the Philippines such a controversial issue?
What is Filipino support assuming independence.
300
The British intercepted this note between Germany and Mexico.
What is the Zimmerman Note
300
This supreme court case limited free speech during wartime.
What is Schenck v. US
400

The US annexed this nation for military purposes before the Spanish-American War.

What is Hawaii

400
The US required Cuba to include this amendment in its constitution before the US would withdraw its military forces.
What is the Platt Amendment
400
Using business instead of the military to promote America's interests was known as
What is Dollar Diplomacy
400
The area between enemy trenches was known as
What is No-Man's Land
400

This organization was created at the end of World War I. The U.S. did not join.

What is the League of Nations.

500
Expanding into smaller nations to compete with other large nations would fall under which motive for expansion?
What is Nationalism
500
List the conditions of the Treaty of Paris of 1898
What is an independent Cuba, US gets Puerto Rico and Guam, and US pays Spain $20 million for the Philippines
500
How did the US gain access to the Panama Canal?
What is supporting a rebellion.
500
Name the three members of the Central Powers
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
500

How was the fighting in WWI different from previous wars? Give 3 examples.

What is poison gas, tanks, airplanes, automatic weapons, trench warfare,

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