VOCABULARY 1
Who was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist which sparked the start of WWI
Archduke Ferdinand
a halt in fighting that allows peace talks to begin
What is an Armistice?
A Mexican rebel general whose nickname was Poncho.
Who is Francisco Villa.
Who are the Main Allied Powers in WWI?
U.S. | U.K. | France
Germany, Britain and the US were nearly in armed conflict as they argued for control over this place.
What is SAMOA?
Forced movement or large numbers of people into detention camps for military and political reasons.
What is Reconcentration?
Areas where another nation has economic and political control.
What is sphere of influence?
An American expert on tropical diseases like malaria.
Who is William C. Gorgas?
What leader led the Bolshevik revolution to install communism in Russia?
Vladimir Lenin
Germany, Britain and the US were nearly in armed conflict as they argued for control over this place.
What is Samoa?
Avoiding involvement in other countries affairs.
What is isolationism?
An independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside power.
What is protectorate?
Commodore of the US Navy who ailed warships into Tokyo Bay hoping to convince Japan to trade.
Who is Commodore Mathew Perry?
The United States convinced this country to open trade with them using the show of their weapons and ships making them realize how weak they were.
Who were the Japanese?
The policy that enabled countries outside of China to demand they remain open for trade to all partners.
What is Open Door Policy?
A logical extension of a doctrine or proposition.
What is corollary?
What foreign policy idea can be summarized like this: "America is SO excellent, we have a profound obligation to craft the world in our image. Others should want us in charge!"
What is Manifest Destiny?
Filipino rebel leader who helped Dewey seize Manila from the Spanish, rose against the US after the Spanish-American War.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
Who are the main CENTRAL powers?
- Germany
- Austria-Hungary
- Ottoman Empire
The place where Roosevelt planned to build a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Panama?
Building empires imposing political and economic control over others.
What is imperialism?
An independent country whose policies are controlled by an outside power.
BONUS* Name 2 of these that America Controlled
Protectorate
*Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Guam, Philippines, etc.
Who was the absolute monarch who was overthrown during a revolution in Russia?
Tsar Nicolas II
The two arguments that were made by this group of people against isolationism that it was "our duty to spread western culture and values, and that we did not want to lose trade interests in the world.
Who were the expansionists?
What are the M.A.I.N reasons we got into WW1 as a country? (there 4 reasons)
- MILITARISM
- ALLIANCES
- IMPERIALISM
- NATIONALISM