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World War I
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Spanish-American War
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Biased information used to promote a particular political cause
What is Propaganda
100
Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield.
What is Trench Warfare
100

What officially ended WWI?

Treaty of Versailles

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Artificial waterway cut through Central America to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans = Big Stick Diplomacy used to get it 

What is Panama Canal

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What were 2 effects of the Spanish American war (1- impact on US, 2- territories gained)?

The US emerged as a world power and got territories: Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, Cuba

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Laws that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in WWI
What is Espionage and Sedition Acts
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What is the triggering event of WWI?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in 1914

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The idea that the U.S. should stay out of foreign disputes
What is Isolationism
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The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.
What is Imperialism
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Sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure readers
What is Yellow Journalism
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What did the Selective Service Act do?
What is Required men to register for military service
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Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that the US should build a strong _____________________?

Naval Power

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Why did the senate oppose the U.S. joining the League of Nations

Collective security = did not want the US involved in foreign affairs without congressional approval

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The U.S. policy of using the nation's economic power to exert influence over other countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
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What was the major effect of WWI on US foreign policy?

Went back to a policy of Isolationism and passed the Neutrality Acts

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List 2 causes of the Spanish American War

1. Yellow Journalism

2. USS Maine Sinking

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The four long-term causes of World War I were (MAIN)

What is Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Alliance System

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What were Wilson's Fourteen Points?

To create peace and prevent a world war from happening again

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The U.S. annexed this territory by force, against the will of the local residents, in 1898
What is Hawaii
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Why did the US move to a policy of Imperialism? 

To secure new markets and expand capitalism 

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The Industrial Revolution led to more goods and materials being produced which led to what major US foreign policy during the late 1800s?

Imperialism

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What was the #1 major reason the US got involved in WWI?

Unrestricted German Sub warfare: sinking of the Lusitania 

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What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany. List 3 things 

What is A. Prohibited from having an army, war reparations (pay debts), war-guilt (take the blame) 

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What did the Roosevelt Corollary say?

U.S. claimed the right to protect economic interests by means of military intervention in nations of the Western Hemisphere

(US was the police force in the western hemisphere)

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What was the Open Door Policy 

A policy the US made with China for them to be open to trade and interaction with the US