What was the nickname given to the territory acquired by Secretary of State William Seward from Russia in 1867?
What is "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox"
100
This was a term for journalism that used inflammatory headlines and encouraged U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American War.
What is Yellow Journalism?
100
The U.S. position in WWI from 1914-1917.
What is neutrality?
100
The law that the United States used to force recruitment of solidiers in WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
100
The "trigger" that started WWI.
What was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
200
This poem by Rudyard Kipling argued that the U.S. should become an imperial nation.
What is "White Man's Burden"?
200
The ship that was blown up in Havana Harbor and was a major reason the U.S. went to war against Spain.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
200
The method used to defend and fight back against U-Boat attacks.
What is the convoy system?
200
We discussed 5 events or reasons the U.S. changed its policy and entered the war. Name three.
Answers vary.
Lusitania
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman note
Trade relationships with UK and Germany
Russian Revolution (war for democracy)
200
The three primary nations that made up the Triple Entente (allies in 1914).
Who are France, UK, Russia?
300
America acquired Hawaii after a revolt overthrew (1) this Hawaiian Queen and a new republic was established with (2) this man as President. Name the queen and the President of Hawaii.
Who are (1) Liliuokalani and (2) Sanford Dole?
300
Roosevelt lead (1) this group up (2) these two hills and established his reputation as an American hero.
What are (1) the rough riders, and (2) kettle and san juan hills?
300
Name four weapons or technologies utilized widely in WWI that changed the nature of warfare.
Answers include:
Machine Guns
Airplanes
Tanks
Poison Gas
300
These acts limited speech against the war at home. Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years due to these two laws.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
300
The three primary entities that made up the Central Powers.
Who are Germany, Austro-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire?
400
Explain the Salt Water Fallacy, as explained by Noam Chomsky, and why he would claim that view is wrong.
What is that the U.S. only became imperialistic when it crossed salt water. Wrong because the U.S. had long expanded and conquered territory, including Spanish, French and Indian land, on the American continent.
400
This policy stated that not only should European Nations stay out of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas), but that it was the U.S.'s duty to police this area, and any issues should be dealt with by the U.S., not Europe directly.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
400
The year that the United States entered WWI.
What is 1917?
400
Three reasons for racial tension between whites and blacks in the North after WWI.
What are jobs, housing, and changed African-American views (WWI experience)?
400
Two long-term negative effects of the Treaty of Versailles.
What are (1) divisive borders in Balkans / Mideast, and (2) overly punitive on Germany --> WWII?
500
Explain Dollar Diplomacy and Missionary Diplomacy.
DD - US using economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries in Latin America and East Asia.
MD - US had moral responsibility to deny recognition to any Latin American government that was viewed as hostile to American interests
500
Three territories gained as a result of U.S. involvement in the Spanish-American war.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
500
Name three new nations created in Europe at the end of WWI.
What are, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania...
500
Two negative effects of WWI-era propaganda.
What are - increases anti-german sentiment, reinforces gender stereotypes, paints enemies as barbarians/justifies harsh realities of war?
500
The four primary long-term causes of WWI.
What are militarism, alliance systems, imperialism, nationalism?