Imperialism
This territory was considered Seward's Icebox as it was believed it was no value to the United States
What is Alaska?
This is the building of arms or weapons or military branches
What is Militarism?
The Americans believed in the policy that kept them detached or __________ before WWI
What is isolated?
These were planted in homeowners yards and schoolchildren's parks during WWI to conserve food
What are Victory Gardens?
This peace plan was created by President Wilson at the end of WWI
What are the 14 Points?
This territory was taken from Queen Lilo and added to the U.S. for its sugarcane plantations
What is Hawaii?
This is a system of agreements between 2 or more nations to help each other during conflict
The Americans believed it was best to not get involved in WWI early due to this policy where they would not choose to fight on either side
What is neutral?
The US sold the war by raising the money through these things and sinner taxes
What are Liberty Loans or Victory Loans?
The peace plan Wilson had stated that this international organization should be created to provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle their grievances without having to resort to war.
What is the League of Nations?
The Spanish American War added the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and ______ territories to the U.S.
What is Guam?
This term describes pride in one's nation
What is nationalism?
This event led to the deaths of about 128 Americans caused by an attack by a German U-boat
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
These were created by the nation’s artists and advertising agencies to create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures promoting the war
What are propaganda posters?
This treaty established 9 new nations such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, barred Germany from maintaining an army, required Germany to return the region of Alsace-Lorraine to France and to pay reparations
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This statement was added to the Monroe Doctrine and said that the US would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This term describes when a stronger, more industrialized, nations takes over a weaker nation; socially, politically, economically, or militarily.
What is imperialism?
This event resulted in the discovery of a letter that was sent from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance and promised that if war with the United States broke out, Germany would support Mexico in recovering “lost territory in Texas, NewMexico, and Arizona.
What is the Zimmermann Note?
These acts were created during WWI and could lead a person to be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, pro- fane, or abusive about the government or the war effort
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This country was made to admit sole responsibility for starting World War I
What is Germany?
These notes were written by Secretary of State John Hay and addressed the leaders of imperialist nations proposing that they share their trading rights in China with U.S., creating an open door
What are the Open Door Notes? What is the Open Door Policy?
This man was the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne and was assassinated by Serbian Nationalist Gavrilo Princip
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This policy ended after the sinking of a British passenger liner in 1915 after the Sussex Pledge but picked up again in 1917 and resulted in the sinking of four unarmed American merchant ships which caused the Americans to join the Allies in WWI
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This was the large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks to cities in the North due to discrimination and more job opportunities
What is the Great Migration?
Many Americans rejected joining the League of Nations for these reasons
What are military and economic affairs abroad?