This is a formal agreement between two or more nations for a similar goal.
What is an alliance?
The needs of the U.S. Navy to quickly travel from one ocean to another after the Spanish American War motivated the construction of this in Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
This person won the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing 28 Germans and taking 128 captive during World War I.
Who is Alvin York?
This step was taken by Americans at home to help conserve food for soldiers.
What is rationing?
This was President Roosevelt's foreign policy of protecting U.S. economic and security interests in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Big Stick Policy?
According to the Treaty of Versailles Germany was required to pay these to European nations.
What is War Reparations?
The acquisition of these territories led to the growth of U.S. commerce and influence.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
This person helped overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and served as president and governor of Hawaii.
Who was Sanford B. Dole?
These were the four M A I N long-term causes of World War I
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
The U.S. returned to this policy at the end of World War I
What is Isolationism?
Enforced by the U.S. from 1899-1900, this was meant primarily to secure equal trade opportunities in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
This location was annexed in 1898 due to its strategic military and business value.
What is Hawaii?
This general led the American Expeditionary Forces, which broke the stalemate and helped win the battle of Argonne Forest.
Who was John Pershing?
These two new inventions led soldiers to dig trenches to avoid enemy attacks and advance into their trenches.
What are machine guns and artillery?
This was President Taft's foreign policy of furthering American interests in Latin America by investing financially with American businesses
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
These were three main countries in the Central Powers AND three main countries in the Allied Powers during World War I.
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire)?
What is England, France, United States, Russia, Serbia?
This was a type of warfare that Germany used during WWI and got the US involved in the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
The Great White Fleet, the Panama Canal, and US troops in the Caribbean were all examples of this policy.
What is Big Stick Policy?
This Congressman refused to support the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
WWI took place between these years in the early 20th century.
What is 1914 and 1918?
The Espionage & Sedition Acts limited which Constitutionally protected rights during wartime.
What is 1st Amendment or Freedom of Speech?
This type of defense in WWI was sometimes called a "fox-hole".
What is Trench Warfare or a trench?
Provide TWO reasons that justified American Imperialism.
Obtain raw materials, become a world power, spread Christianity, obtain colonies, the US was superior to other groups in civilization
This person's theorized that a two-ocean navy would be vital in establishing America as a world power
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?
The location marked on the map below was known as this and was the main location for most WWI battles.
What is the Western Front?
U.S. Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, feared that the U.S. would lose freedom to act on its own if they ratified this at the end of WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?