Spanish American War
The Year of the Spanish American War
1898
America's status, after winning the Spanish American War in 1898, and gaining the following territories: Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico.
World Power
The U.S. status when WW1 broke out, the plan was to stay out of European problems.
Isolationism
This gun fired 600 rounds per minute and was used as trench defense.
Machine Gun
This famous last battle where the U.S. sent over a million troops to break the stalemate and made Germany surrender.
Battle of Argonne Forest
The sinking of this US battleship outside the Havana harbor in Cuba led to us declaring war on Spain.
U.S.S. Maine
This was Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy plan to extend to the Monroe Doctrine that America would intervene if Europe continued to colonize in Latin Americas.
Roosevelt Corollary
The years of WW1
1914-1918
This new technology would blind soldiers, attacking their lungs and skin.
Poisonous Gas
This Medal of Honor recipient attacked machine gun nests, killing 25, and captured 132 Germans.
Alvin York
Exaggerated news reports on Spanish atrocities towards Cubans led to America supporting a war against Spain.
Yellow Journalism
Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy to negotiate with countries and use (military) force if necessary. (West African Proverb "Speak softly...)
Big Stick Policy
German submarines sunk any ships they came in contact with, killing Americans and other allies.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
These were used to lead troops across no man's land into enemy territory. They also helped break the stalemate.
Tanks
This treaty ended the war punishing Germany, by demilitarizing them, reducing their land, and making them pay for the damages, which led to WW2.
Treaty of Versailles
This letter was sensationalized by American journalists inciting that the Spain president called our American president weak.
De Lome Letter
This Fruit company businessman overthrew the Hawaiian Queen which helped annex Hawaii to the United States.
Sanford Dole
German submarines sunk this cargo ship which had 128 Americans on board.
Lusitania
The new technology caused this style of fighting where the army digs long ditches to take cover and defend themselves.
Trench Warfare
Woodrow Wilson's plan for World Peace.
14 Points
Key battle of the Spanish American War where Teddy Roosevelt led a group of volunteer soldiers (Rough Riders) from San Antonio to defeat Spain.
San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt built this waterway canal across an isthmus to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama Canal
A proposed alliance between Germany and Mexico that was intercepted by British intelligence.
Zimmerman Telegram
When the U.S. joined the war, the technology, and trench style fighting resulted where neither side could overtake the other.
Stalemate
An international diplomatic group developed after WW1 as a way to solve disputes before war erupted. The U.S. never joins this group fearing that it would further tangle us into Europe problems.
League of Nations