Imperalism
Who did we purchase Alaska from?
Russia (1867)
What island country did the U.S. want to liberate from the Spanish?
Cuba
What was the U.S. policy towards WWI early on?
Neutrality
What was Schenck v United States?
Rules that free speech can be curbed if it threatens public safety.
What brought the U.S. into WW2?
Pearl Harbor
What were two reasons the U.S. became imperial at the end of the nineteenth century?
Economic interests, military power wanted, Social Darwinism, Popular Press
What ship blew up giving the U.S. cause for war?
U.S.S. Maine
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
Germany's attempt to convince Mexico to invade the U.S.
What was the Dawes Plan?
Economic plan to help Germany repay the Allies and then pay the U.S.
Korematsu v U.S. was a supreme court case dealing with what?
On the legality of the Japanese Internment Camps, which the Supreme Court ruled legal
Describe Open Door Policy in China
Way to have economic influences with other countries.
What territory did the U.S. acquire from the war? (Three places)
Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam
How did most Americans die in WW1?
Spanish Flu
Describe one of the three neutrality acts of the 1930s.
1935: Prohibit all arms sales and travel of U.S. citizens to belligerent countries
1936: no loans or credits to those countries
1937: No shipment of arms to the Spanish Civil War
Before D-Day where did the Allies try to invade Europe through?
Italy
Describe Big Stick Diplomacy and give one example that was done with this under Roosevelt?
Acting boldly in situations and build up the U.S. army and navy into a world power
Panama Canal, South American Roosevelt Corollary, Great White Fleet
What was the Platt Amendment?
Name two parts of the Treaty of Versailles
1) Punishment of Germany
2) Self-determination of countries
3) League of Nations
What was the difference between "Cash and Carry" and the Lend Lease Act
Cash and Carry - allowed sales of arms to country if they picked it up with their own ships and paid cash
Lend Lease - Allowed the British to buy on credit
What battle was the turning point in the Pacific?
What was the strategy in the Pacific used by the U.S. called?
Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
What did the Jones Act do? Under Wilson
Bill of Rights for Philippines, Male suffrage, and independence for them once they have stable government
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
Why did the U.S. reject the Treaty of Versailles?
What happened to Wilson during this push for the Treaty?
Worried about being pulled into a European conflict not want to be overly involved in the world
Stroke
The appeasement to Hitler by the British and French gave them what territory?
Sudetenland (Czechia)
What were the names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
"Fat Man" and "Little Boy"