US Imperialism
Sensational reporting that exaggerates to lure, engage, or otherwise draw readers to buy newspapers.
What is "yellow journalism"?
The name given to the extension of the Monroe Doctrine at the turn of the century, noting that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American countries if we believed they were unable to maintain order in their own country.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The two major alliance systems in Europe at the outbreak of WW1?
What are the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?
The sinking of this passenger ship by Germans in May of 1915 caused U.S. outrage?
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
The name of Pres. Woodrow Wilson's speech outlining issues the world needed to address to create a lasting peace.
What are the Fourteen Points?
The sinking of this ship in Havana Harbor along with the deLome letter spurred the outcry for war with Spain in 1898.
What was the U.S.S. Maine?
The use of loans and investments in other countries as a tool of U.S. foreign policy.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The name given to the mental condition experienced by many soldiers of the trenches in WW1.
What is "shell shock"?
The method by which the US raised an army in WWI and paid for the war.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917 and the selling of "Liberty Bonds" or war bonds (coupled with higher taxes)?
The date and name of the cease-fire of WW1.
What is Nov, 11 (at 11 a.m.) of 1918; the armistice day of WWI?
The reason for the takeover of Hawaii in 1893 by the white planter class and the results for Queen Liliuokalani.
What was the result of the resumption of tax on Hawaiian sugar imports to the U.S. and what happened to the Hawaiian queen during this time?
The leader of the Filipino resistance and the presidents who resided over the war.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo and Presidents McKinley and T. Roosevelt?
The two events of 1917 that pushed Pres. Wilson to declare war on Germany and the Central Powers.
What was the result of German unrestricted submarine warfare (taking out US ships) and the Zimmerman telegram incident?
The method by which the government ensured it had enough war supplies, lead by Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch.
What is the War Industries Board?
Two terms of the Treaty of Versailles which caused long-term resentment by the Germans.
What were the war reparations and "war guilt clause" the Germans were forced to accept?
Three reasons for U.S. expansionism/imperialism in the late 1800s.
What are 1) a thirst for new markets, including search for raw materials and a place to sell overproduction; 2) a desire for military strength, believing a strong navy with worldwide ports and colonies would situate the US as a global power (Mahan thesis); and 3) a belief in cultural (white) superiority--from being "more civilized", spreading Christianity, Social Darwinism -- the survival of the fittest (Fisk, Burgess et al).
The U.S. position paper sent to European nations outlining 1) respect for spheres of influence in China; 2) Chinese officials were to continue tariff collections in all spheres; and 3) nations should not discriminate against other nations when levying port duties or railroad rates within their spheres in China.
What are the "Open Door Notes"?
What are the four major issues/causes that created a "world war" out of Central European conflict regarding the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary?
What are 1. Imperialism (and the competition between European powers for colonies) 2. Militarism (esp. the arms race between Germany and Britain) 3. Nationalism (to the point of hyper rivalry) 4. Alliance System (that broke Europe into two groups willing to aid each other in any armed conflict)
Two laws that curbed U.S. rights to oppose or speak out against the Great War.
What are the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918?
The intransigence of Woodrow Wilson and the Lodge Reservations.
Two are two issues that stopped the U.S. from ratifying the Treaty of Versailles and joining the League of Nations?
Four areas of the globe ceded by Spain as terms of the Spanish-American war armistice (and then treaty).
What are - 1) the recognition of the independence of Cuba; 2) ceding Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S., and 3) accepting the takeover of the Philippines by the U.S. (later to be sold to the U.S.)?
The amendment to this treaty ended the War of 1898 and created a U.S. "protectorate of Cuba" and a permanent U.S. naval base there.
What is the Platt Amendment to the Treaty of Paris, 1898?
Three of the new weapons of war in WW1 that made for greater and/or horrific casualties and the single bloodiest day of WW1.
What are heavy artillery, machine guns, tanks, flame-throwers, mustard and other poison gasses, new classes of battleships and submarines? And what was the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The name of the U.S. General who lead the WW1 troops, the name of our fighting force, and any one battle where the US participated in great number.
Who is General John ("Black Jack") Pershing? What is the American Expeditionary Force and battles such as Chateau-Thierry, the 2nd Battle of the Marne, and the Meuse-Argonne?
The largest change to U.S. demographics based on the war effort to get workers to Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration -- a large-scale migration of Southern Blacks to cities in the North?
(Brinkley, 100s of thousands, Henretta, approx. 400,000 people moved North)