Vocabulary
Imperialism &
the Spanish American War
the Spanish American War
People
WWI & New Technology
Legal and Financial
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
This was President Roosevelt's foreign policy of protecting U.S. economic and security interests in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Big Stick Policy?
100
The needs of the U.S. Navy to quickly travel from one ocean to another after the Spanish American War motivated the construction of the
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This person won the Congressional Medal of Honor for killing 28 Germans and taking 128 captive during World War I.
Who is Alvin York?
100
This step was taken by Americans at home to help conserve food for soldiers.
What is rationing?
100
U.S. Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, feared that the U.S. would lose freedom to act on its own if they joined this post-World War I organization.
What is the League of Nations?
200
This was President Taft's foreign policy of furthering American interests in Latin America by investing financially with American businesses
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
200
American imperialists saw this territory as a useful base for increasing trade between America and China
What is the Philippines?
200
This person helped overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and served as president and governor of Hawaii.
Who was Sanford B. Dole?
200
These were the four M A I N long-term causes of World War I
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
200
The Espionage & Sedition Acts and Schenck vs. U.S. limited which Constitutionally protected right during war time
What is Freedom of Speech?
300
Enforced by the U.S. from 1899-1900, this was meant primarily to secure equal trade opportunities in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
300
The Spanish American War was a direct result of Yellow Journalism, the De Lome Letter, and this event that took place in Havana Bay, Cuba.
What is the Sinking of the USS Maine?
300
The general who led the American Expeditionary Forces, which broke the stalemate and helped win the battle of Argonne Forest.
Who was John Pershing?
300
These two new technologies led soldier to dig trenches to avoid enemy attacks and advancement into their trenches.
What is machine guns and barbed wire?
300
During World War I, while America's economic relations grew rapidly with Allies, it greatly deteriorated with
What is the Central Powers?
300
These were three main countries in the Central Powers AND three main countries in the Allied Powers during World War I.
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire)?
What is England, France, United States, Russia, Serbia?
400
The following quote describes this type of defense used in WWI...
"A weary exhausted nerve-racked group of men...assembled north of Sommerance to dig in for the night. We prepared our foxholes, carrying [materials] from abandoned machine-gunners' dugouts to make our "houses" as comfortable as possible, even if only for one night."
What is Trench Warfare?
400
The annexation of overseas territories, which led to increased trade with East Asia and the Caribbean was a direct result of America's victory in the
What is the Spanish American War?
400
His assassination led to Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, which triggered the beginning of World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
400
The events below:
WWI Begins...Lusitania sinks...U.S. joins the war...Germany surrenders
occurred between the years
What is 1914 and 1918?
400
According to the Treaty of Versailles Germany was required to pay these to European nations.
What is War Reparations?
500
This movement was the effect of the events in the first box and the cause of the events in the last box
What is the Populist Movement?
500
*Greatness in Sea Power, *Spreading of Christianity, *Bringing Civilization, *Benefiting from Sugar Plantations and other tropical resources
were all justifications for
What is American Imperialism?
500
This person's theorized that a two-ocean navy would be vital in establishing America as a world power
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?
500
The American Expeditionary Forces, led by John Pershing, led the offensive that ended the military stalemate at
What is the Battle of Argonne Forest?
500
The U.S. returned to this policy at the end of World War I
What is Isolationism?