Power of a country
Imperialism
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
Goals of Peace Treaty in WWI
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany formally ending World War One. Germany has to pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies.
Muckrakers
journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government
Social Movements of 1800’s
women's suffrage, limits on child labor, abolition, temperance, and prison reform.
Causes of WWI
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914) was the main catalyst for the start of the Great War (World War I).
Woodrow Wilson
a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”
Dollar Diplomacy
Spanish-American War
ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.
Theodore Roosevelt
an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
Panama Canal
a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama.
Annexation
is the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory. It is generally held to be an illegal act.
Minor C. Keith
an American businessman whose railroad, commercial agriculture, and cargo liner enterprises had a major impact on the national economies of the Central American countries, as well as on the Caribbean region of Colombia.
Prohibition Movement
began in 1920 when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors
Jingoism
nationalism in the form of aggressive and proactive foreign policy, such as a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests
Madam C.J. Walker
“the first Black woman millionaire in America” and made her fortune thanks to her homemade line of hair care products for Black women.