Causes of American Imperialism
What are the 4 reasons behind imperialism?
Economic Reasons, Racial/Cultural Reasons, Political Reasons, Strategic/Naval Reasons.
American Imperialism Definition.
A more powerful country taking over a less powerful country.
What are the 4 MAIN causes of WWI?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What were the first countries to join the WW1?
Austria-Hungary and Serbia started it then quickly after Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Germany joined.
What original countries were apart of the central powers?
Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary
What were the 3 motivating factors of American Imperialism?
Superiority, expansions of markets, military competition.
What did the US do to build and control the Panama Canal?
Signed a treaty that gave a 10 mile wide section of the Panama Canal
What did the Zimmermann Telegram do?
It was an alliance with Germany and they offered Mexico US territory in return for Mexico to side with Germany.
What were most of the countries that joined later and finished in the WW1?
United States, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, Romania, Greece, Canada, Serbia, India, Portugal, Montenegro, and Poland
What original countries were apart of the allied powers?
France, Great Britain, Russia, Serbia
What 2 reasons were both behind and the cause of Manifest Destiny?
Economic Reasons and Racial/Cultural Reasons
Who were the first Americans to visit Hawaii?
Missionaries
What is the Unrestricted Submarine Warfare? and what did Germany do to make Americans mad?
The USW is the policy of having submarines attack all ships. But Germany caused the sinking of Lusitania in 1915.
What were two countries that were done and got split up after the WW1?
Austria-Hungary split into 2 and the Ottoman empire split into many.
What are the 4 factors leading up to WW1?
Problems with Mexico, Wilson's Re-Election, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, and The Russian Revolution.
What was Yellow Journalism and who were the creators?
Yellow Journalism was reporting's of scandalous and shocking illustrations in these newspapers created Hearst and Pulitzer.
What was Alaska called when William H Seward first purchased and why?
Americans called it "Seward's Icebox" because they thought the land was worthless and a bad purchase.
What did Wilson do while waiting to invade Mexico?
Wilson did "watchful waiting" until an incident happened that let him enter and invade Mexico to go against Huerta
Which new countries were formed after WW1 and because of it?
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Iraq, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania
What was one of the biggest event that caused the United States to join the WW1?
Germany's submarine attacks on the American ships, specifically the sinking of Lusitania.
Which country is self-governed and why?
Puerto Rice is self-governed because US did gain control of them then gave the control back to them. But the US still has to take care of them.
What is Dollar Diplomacy and Roosevelts corollary and what did they have to do with Panama?
Dollar Diplomacy is countries using there financial power to expand and Roosevelts Corollary is that the US has to Protect life and property in certain countries. This relates to Panama because US did gain control of the Panama Canal from a treaty but in the end the US gave it back up and still has to protect Panama.
What is the definition of the 4 MAIN causes for WWI?
Militarism- policy of military preparedness and building weapons
Alliances- maintained peace and mutual help of countries
Imperialism- nations expanding taking over less powerful countries
Nationalism- Extreme pride for their nation/culture
What did they call WW1 at the time before WW2 happened and why?
They called it the Great War because they were hoping that there would not be another world war and this would be it.
What event actually sparked starting WW1?
Austria-Hungary investigated Princip and found that the assassins were supplied with bombs and weapons by Serbia. So, they blamed Serbia for Ferdinand's death and then declared war.