He was the President of the United States during the Great War
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
100
A tragedy which ultimately killed 1198 people, including 128 Americans.
What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
100
The location of most of the fighting in the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
100
This was the main crop of Honduras, the sale of which was controlled largely by American companies like United Fruit and Standard Fruit in the beginning of the the 20th century.
What are bananas?
100
The collective name for American interventions in Central America and the Caribbean during the first half of the 20th century.
What are the Banana Wars?
200
The writer who coined the phrase "Banana Republic" when describing the economic situation in Honduras.
Who was O. Henry?
200
The name for the series of military engagements between Mexican Revolutionaries and US federal troops throughout the Mexican Revolution.
What was the Border War?
200
The former US territory where John McCain was born
What is the Panama Canal Zone?
200
Making this has been the major motivation for American imperialism.
What is money?
200
Which territories were acquired by the US immediately following the Spanish-American War?
What are Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
300
A Mexican general during the Mexican revolution who led a raid into the United States which destroyed the town of Columbus, New Mexico.
Who was Francisco "Pancho" Villa?
300
A promise made by the German government to end unrestricted submarine warfare, following an attack on a French passenger ship in 1916.
What was the Sussex Pledge?
300
A strategically significant port in the Caribbean which was won in the Spanish-American War, and which the US continues to control today.
What is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?
300
The US backed the opposition to the president in Nicaragua in order to prevent this.
What is the building of a Nicaraguan Canal by another great power?
300
An addendum (addition) to the Monroe Doctrine. It justified US intervention in Central America and the Caribbean.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
The liberal progressive Nicaraguan president who was removed from power by a US-backed revolution because he was in talks with other countries interested in building a canal through Nicaragua.
Who is Jose Zelaya?
400
An early example of American interventionism in Central America, carried out in order to protect the economic interests of a few wealthy Americans who had invested in Cuba.
What was the Spanish-American War?
400
The sectioned-off areas where the Spanish kept many Cubans in horrendous, inhumane conditions to prevent them from revolting.
What were the Reconcentrados (Reconcentration Camps)?
400
The US backed a revolution in a region of Columbia so that they could eventually build this.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
The practice of exaggerating and/or sensationalizing news stories (and often just plain lying) in order to sell more papers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
The initial leader of the Mexican Revolution who helped to remove Porfirio Diaz from power.
Who was Francisco Madero?
500
This was ultimately motivated by the German betrayal of the Sussex Pledge and the interception of the Zimmerman Telegram
What was the US entry into the Great War?
500
The country which originally owned Panama, before a US-backed revolution helped Panama gain independence.
What is Columbia?
500
In his piece “Our Country” (from the handout “A Strong Voice For Expansion”), Reverend Josiah Strong, a Social Darwinist, argues that world history is driven by this.
What is competition between the races?
500
The position that Woodrow Wilson urged the American people to take in the wake of the Great War in 1914.