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The Press
The United States in Asia
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The term for journalism that is based on exaggeration and sensationalism.
What is yellow journalism or yellow press?
100
The United States forced this country to open up to trade.
What is Japan?
100
Cutting off all trade and foreign communication.
What is isolationism?
100
Category: "W.C" Saddam Hussein was executed for these.
What are war crimes?
100
Category: Letters and Numbers As its name suggests, this data compressing format for encoding audio has three layers.
What is MP3?
200
Yellow journalism is very different from these types of journalists, who was very influential during the progressive era.
Who are muckrakers?
200
He was the man sent by Millard Fillmore for force Japan to trade.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
200
Actively seeking to create an empire or expand your countries borders.
What is expansionism?
200
Category "W.C" Newlyweds are supposed to freeze the top of this and eat it on their first anniversary?
What is their wedding cake?
200
Category: Letters and Numbers In 2009, Swine Flu got a new name - this alphanumeric one.
What is H1N1?
300
He was a business magnate and famous newspaper publisher, owner of the New York Journal, who owned over 30 newspapers across the country, and famously competed with another newspaper owner, contributing significantly to yellow journalism.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
300
During this time, China was divided up into these, territory influenced and controlled by different European countries.
What are spheres of influence?
300
Teddy Roosevelt's group very popular group of famous musicians, actors, children of business magnates, and other wealthy/high class soldiers who fought in the Spanish American War.
What are the Rough Riders?
300
The law that gave Cuba their conditional independence.
What is the Platt Amendment?
300
Category: Battles The timely arrival of Prussian forces at this June 18, 1815 battle was a turning point for the Allied troops.
What is Waterloo?
400
He was the owner of the New York World, also a yellow press practitioner who, ironically, created a fun for a famous literary prize.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
400
This was the name of the policy proposed by the United States to allow all countries to trade with China without establishing a sphere of influence.
What is the Open Door Policy?
400
Report by a senator who had visited Cuba and reported back to the US about the abuses he saw the Spanish committing there.
What is the Proctor Report?
400
Category "W.C" Office workers are said to gather around this dispenser to talk about gossip and riveting TV shows.
What is the water cooler?
400
Category: 1961 In April 1961, a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles landed here in Cuba.
What is Bay of Pigs?
500
The name of the ship that exploded in Havana, leading to competing sensationalist reports by different newspapers.
What is the USS Maine?
500
He was the US Secretary of State who proposed the Open Door Policy.
Who is John Hay?
500
Resolution passed by the US that said that Cuba would have independence after the Spanish American War.
What is Teller Resolution?
500
Angelina Jolie's dad is this actor,
Who is Jon Voight?
500
Category: 1961 It was erected on the nights of August 12-13, 1961, as a decree passed by the Volkskammar
What is the Berlin Wall?