Name that Foreign Policy
This policy under William McKinley included the idea that China must be kept open to trade.
What is the Open Door Policy?
The explosion of this American ship in Havana Harbor, Cuba led to war fever in the U.S. and helped ignite the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This telegram written by the German Foreign minister proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States helped contribute to the entrance of the United States into World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram/Note?
This human-made waterway in Central America drastically reduced travel time and shipping costs by linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is the African American army unit that fought with great bravery in the Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Theodore Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine that would allow the U.S. to intervene in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
What is Hawaii?
This international peacekeeping organization was proposed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points.
What is the League of Nations?
This belief includes survival of the fittest as it applies to individuals, businesses, and nations.
What is Social Darwinism?
What is propaganda?
Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy that included careful negotiations supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military.
What is "Big-Stick Diplomacy"?
The U.S. acquired Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and this other territory from the Spanish as a result of winning the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
This German policy contributed to the sinking of the Lusitania and the entrance of the United States into World War I.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
This Old Dead White Guy wrote the book "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" which encouraged the U.S. Government to build a strong powerful navy.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
This Treaty ended World War I, punished the Germans for starting it, and created great resentment in Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This foreign policy included President Wilson’s belief that the US had responsibility to support governments who promoted American style democracy.
What is Moral/Missionary Diplomacy?
Sensational and exaggerated headlines that were designed to increase circulation of newspapers and contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
These acts passed by Congress during World War I limited freedom of speech and the press in order to protect national security during a time of war.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts
This amendment to the Cuban constitution allowed the United States to supervise Cuban affairs.
What is the Platt Amendment?
The contributions of women to the U.S. war effort during World War I greatly advanced the cause of Women's suffrage and resulted in the passage of this amendment to the Constitution.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was President Taft’s policy of promising to protect the investments of American businesses in Latin American countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
What is a World Power?
This U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of the government limiting free speech during times of war.
What is Schenck v. United States?
To appease anti-Imperialists, the US passed this Amendment which stated that the US would not annex Cuba but leave “control of the island to its people.”
What is the Teller Amendment?
This organization was created in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war in an effort to battle the annexation of the Philippines.
What is the Anti-Imperialist League?