President
Who is William Howard Taft?
This 1898 war, sparked by the sinking of the USS Maine, ended with the U.S. gaining Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines
What is the Spanish-American War?
Business Interests, Military Strategic Interests, Social Darwinism, Religious Interests, and Fulfillment of Manifest Destiny
What is causes of Imperialism?
This group wanted independence and were angry with the US
What are Filipinos?
Britain, Russia, France
Who is Triple Entente (Allies)
This president commanded the 1st Calvary, also known as Rough Riders?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
This style of sensationalized, often exaggerated news reporting helped push the U.S. public to support the war against Spain
What is Yellow Journalism?
This state was annexed in 1898 by the United States
What is Hawaii?
This gave all nations trading rights in China
Two events that caused Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war?
What is Germany sinking the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
This president believed in Moral Diplomacy, spreaded democracy, promoted human rights, promote peace, and condemn (stop) colonialism
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
TR's foreign policy, which emphasized using the threat of military force to achieve diplomatic goals
What is Roosevelt's Corollary (Big Stick Diplomacy)
These countries are where the United States hoped to gain trade or a sphere of influence
China and Japan
The policy of controlling another country, economically, culturally, politically, and militarily
What is imperialism?
US Senates rejected ______ and didn't join _______
What is the Treaty of Versailles; League of Nations
This president believed in using military force to influence political events in other countries. The US can and will intervene if necessary
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This 1914 engineering marvel was built by the US to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, drastically shortening shipping routes.
What is the Panama Canal?
What is Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, and Remember the Maine/Explosion of the USS Maine
This connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This would protect our economic and military interests abroad.
What is Panama Canal (The King's Crown)?
Woodrow Wilson adopted a foreign policy that seeks to minimize foreign involvement, including avoiding political and military alliances, as well as economic entanglements
What is isolationism?
This president got criticized by Spanish Ambassador. He was called weak.
Who is William McKinley
A foreign policy approach that prioritizes promoting democratic values, human rights, condemning colonialism, and ethical conduct over purely economic or imperialistic interests.
What is the Moral Diplomacy?
Why was Cuba important to the US, both in location and economically?
Economically - sugar plantations
Location - military bases
A specified area in which a nation claims special trading rights and economic priveledges.
What is Sphere of Influence?
Wilson's proposed plan for a permanent world peace?
What is the Fourteen Points?