This refers to support for the US playing a role in world affairs.
What is internationalism?
100
This event was America's grand entry onto the world stage.
What was the Spanish-American War?
100
The Europeans controlled these trade networks in China.
What were spheres of influence?
100
The year that President Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany.
What was 1917?
100
This referred to the belief that America should look after its own affairs and avoid political and economic engagement with other nations.
What is isolationism?
200
This motivation, taken from the work of Darwin, applied survival of the fittest and similar ideas to the areas of economics and foreign policy.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This is the president that eventually asked for a declaration of war against Spain.
Who was President McKinley?
200
This President advocated "Big Stick" diplomacy, with the big stick being America's new naval and military power.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
200
In addition to the Zimmerman Telegram, this was the other reason America joined the war on England's side.
What was unrestricted submarine warfare?
200
He warned us against forming "entangling alliances."
Who was George Washington?
300
This was the last land purchase in North America made by the United States.
What was Alaska?
300
This terrible incident that cost hundreds of American lives, was one of the reasons America went to war with Spain.
What was the explosion of the USS Maine?
300
President Wilson had a vision where America would not use money or military power to gain influence in the world. Instead, we would use our virtue and the superiority of our ways of life. What was this foreign policy called?
What was Moral Diplomacy?
300
This was Wilson's goal for the League of Nations.
What was to stop all future wars by providing a venue for nations to discuss their problems and work for peaceful solutions?
300
America helped Panama rebel against Colombia for this reason.
What is so that we could build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
400
These are three motivations for the US getting involved in world affairs.
What are: markets for US goods; access to raw materials; to spread Christianity and Western values like democracy; nationalism in showing off our powerful new navy?
400
This was the name given to the sensationalistic reporting that was typical of newspaper editors like Pulitzer and Hearst.
What was Yellow Journalism?
400
Taft's policy was meant "buy" America friends by investing heavily in the countries using US businesses and making loans to them.
What was "Dollar Diplomacy"?
400
These were two of the main causes for the outbreak of WWI.
What was nationalism and the alliance system?
400
This was response by the Chinese to the exploitation and involvement by the European powers, America and Japan.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
500
Of the territory gained the Spanish-American War, this still belongs to the US.
What are Guam and Puerto Rico?
500
The contents of the DeLome Letter was seen as another reason for going to war with Spain. Why were Americans so upset because of this letter?
What is it insulted and belittled President McKinley?
500
The Platt Amendment to Cuba's constitution gave Cuba three conditions that America wanted from Cuba. Name two of them.
What were: Cuba had to stay debt free; give the US a naval base at Guantanamo bay; allow the US to intervene in Cuba's affairs.
500
This was the contents of the Zimmerman Letter that gave Wilson the reason he needed to declare war.
What was Germany offered Mexico territory in the US Southwest if Mexico would declare war on the United States?
500
True or False
The sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat was the immediate cause of US involvement in World War I.