Defining Moment
The preservation of the natural environment
conservation
This man became the first modern President by using his strong personality and stretching the limits of the Presidential office to break the tradition of strong Congresses and weak Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt
conscription
The two factors that caused the terrible destruction of World War I
old-fashioned strategies and new technology
The term for the process of increasing the territory of a country
expansionism
An economic theory advocating collective ownership of factories, mines, and other businesses
socialism
The achievement that cut travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by several weeks
The Panama Canal
Wilson's plan for world peace that included the establishment of the League of Nations
Fourteen Points
List the three members of the Triple Entente
Britain, France, and Russia
An economic system in which private individuals own the means of production and profit by their ownership
capitalism
Preparation for war by the government, citizens, and businesses
mobilization
Teddy Roosevelt's expressed his foreign policy with the following phrase.
Speak softly and carry a big stick
The telegram sent to the German ambassador to Mexico instructing him to offer Mexico land in the United States if Mexico joined the Central Powers
The Zimmerman Note
List the three members of the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
A law passed in 1890 that was intended to prohibit trusts, giant firms that controlled whole areas of industry by buying up all the companies with which they did business
The Sherman Antitrust Act
The spread of public information used to mold public opinion
propaganda
The man who led the Pacific fleet into Manila Bay and routed the Spanish navy on May 1, 1898 and captured the Philippines during the Spanish-American War
Commodore George Dewey
The action of Germany that finally caused the United States to declare war on April 2, 1917
the announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare
The date on which Germany surrendered to the Allies, ending World War I
November 11, 1918
The Federal Reserve System
Absorb cultural characteristics
assimilate
The man who successfully negotiated a trade deal with Japan which had been closed to outside traders and visitors for 250 years
Commodore Matthew Perry
The cluster of ideas espoused by the 28th President such as democracy, open trade, and the U.S. as a beacon of freedom
Wilsonianism
The two most significant factors which caused World War I
the complex system of alliances and the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in 1914
The man who capitalized on the Russian Revolution of 1917 to overthrow the tsar and fought a second revolution to establish a Communist government in Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin