Imperialism: 1898
The President in 1898
Who is William McKinley?
The U.S built a canal in this country.
What is Panama?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the 19th Amendment?
This attack by the Japanese on Hawaii and the Phillipines lead to the U.S entering WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
Which resource played an important role in many U.S territories acquired during the U.S imperial period
What is Sugar?
This is a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government. The United States did this repeatedly throughout Latin America.
What is a coup?
During WWII Women the United States held this many jobs (the most in U.S. history to that point)
What are 19 Million jobs?
Indigenous Americans (mostly famously the Navajo) contributed greatly to WWII by creating these
What are codes? (code-talkers)
These three territories were gained by the United States in the Spanish-American War
What is Guam, the Philippines & Puerto Rico?
This was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the U.S. had the right to intervene in countries in the Americas
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Name one industrial job women took during WWII
Riveting, Welding, Weapons Manufacturing
A generic term that refers to a group within a wartime country secretly loyal to the enemy used during WWII to justify incarceration camps
What is the fifth column?
This future state was annexed in this year after a coup by white settlers
What is Hawaii?
The United States forced this country to free Panama after pushing for a coup to help create the Panama Canal
What is Colombia?
A civilian women pilots' organization that focused on ferrying aircrafts and providing training during WWII
What is Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)?
Executive Order 8802 helped Black Americans and Hispanic Americans by doing this
What is prohibited discrimination in the defense industry?
This piece of legislation created quasi-independence in Cuba after the Spanish-American War?
What is the Platt Amendment?
The United States supported a coup in this country in 1909 because its leader was taking loans from Europe & was hostile to U.S. businesses
What is Nicaragua?
Who is Francis Perkins?
This Mexican-American civil rights organization highlighting Mexican-American contributions to the World War II and then focused on post-war civil rights activism.
What is the Alianza (or Alianza Hispano-Americana)?