Key Figures
Spanish-American War
-ISMs
Showing Our Might
Foreign Policies
100
This President won a Noble Peace Prize for arbitrating a peace between Russia and Japan
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
100
This letter insulted President McKinley
What is the De lome letter
100
Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.
What is racism
100
Define annexation
what is to join or attach, as in the joining of a new territory to an existing country
100
The term used to describe a Central American nation dominted by Us business interests
What is banana republic
200
He opened Japan to trading with America
Who is Matthew Perry
200
This ship exploded in Havana
What is the USS Maine
200
Hearst and Pulitzer used this form of exaggerated writing
What is yellow journalism
200
Settlement of a dispute by a person or panel chosen to listen to both sides and come to a decision
What is arbitration
200
Define the Monroe Doctine
What is the policy that told European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere
300
This president based his foreign policy on morality
Who is President Wilson
300
This was an amendment to the Cuba constitution by the US that gave the US the right to establish naval bases in Cuba and to intervene in Cuban affairs whenever necessary
What is the Platt Amendment
300
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism
300
The United States will act as “an international police power” in the Western Hemisphere and intervene to prevent intervention by other powers.
What is Roosevelt's Corollary
300
Spheres of influence
What is an area of economic and political control exerted by one nation over another nation
400
This person ruled Hawaii before it was annexed by the US
What is Queen Liliuokalani
400
Cuban national hero
Who is Jose Marti
400
Devotion to own's nation
What is nationalism
400
The Great White Fleet
What is a force of US navy ships that took a cruise around the world in 1907
400
American approach to China favoring open trade relations between China and other nations
What is the Open Door Policy
500
This president's foreign policy did not work well because of the Mexican Revolution
Who Woodrow Wilson
500
These places (3) became unincorporated territories after the Spanish-American War
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines
500
a burst of national pride and the desire for an aggressive foreign policy
What is jingoism
500
The US started a revolution against Columbia in order to complete this project
What is the Panama Canal
500
Taft's foreign policy
What is dollar diplomacy