Imperialism 1
Warned European Nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe doctrine?
This was used to advertise The White Man's Burden
What is Pear Soap?
In his book, argued that the US needed to build it's navy to become an imperial power
Who is Alfred Mahan?
Policy of America at the start of WWI?
What is neutrality?
The government set up the Food Administration and the Fuel Administration to encourage the limited use of food, oil, and coal (rationing) also known as (conserving)
What is rationing/or conserving?
A policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control or over weaker territories.
What is imperialism?
The United States was late to China behind Europeans, but they still wanted to take advantages of the markets.
Therefore, the U.S. proposed the idea that all countries have trading rights in China,
What is Open Door Policy?
They worked in factories and gained the right to vote
Who are women?
Sinking of the Lusitania
Unrestricted submarine Warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
Why the US joined WWI?
The Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ruled that in times of war the nation had the right to protect its interests even if it meant suppressing certain freedoms.
What is Schenck v the US?
markets to sell goods as well as
places to find cheap raw materials.
What are the two main economic reasons for US imperialism?
Yellow journalism
USS Maine Explosion
DeLome Letter
What are the causes of the Spanish American War?
He used Big Stick Diplomacy to police Latin America
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Left the war due to a civil war in their own country/
The government was overthrown
US joined in WWI after they left
What is Russia?
Due to their work in factories during WWI, women gained suffrage with the passing of this amendment
What is the 19th Amendment?
U.S. must show it is strong like European nations
“Survival of the fittest”
What is Social Darwinism?
William Randolph Hearst and New York World, published by Joseph Pulitzer published outrageous and often untrue stories of how the Spanish were treating The Cuban people.
The printing of these stories has become known as ________________y(exaggerating stories to sell papers).
What is Yellow Journalism?
What enemy country is “demonized” the most in propaganda posters
What is Germany?
This was used to
target Germany as a brute
encourage people to buy liberty bonds
encourage men to enlist
encourage the war effort
What is Propaganda?
Woodrow Wilson's Plan for peace that he presented to the other Allied Nations
What is the League of Nations?
This was an idea that states it was the responsibility of “civilized” countries, like the U.S.
to Christianize, “civilize” and spread “democracy” to “savage” nations
this is the job of the U.S./ Europe because they are the fittest to lead
What is The White Man's Burden?
Territories gained as a result of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish American War.
What are Guam, The Philippines and Puerto Rico?
Between 300,000 and 500,000 African Americans left the south and migrated north to new opportunities and factory jobs.
They also left the south to escape terrorism, racism and Jim Crow laws
What is The Great Migration?
In April of 1917, the US declared war on Germany. Wilson said we entered the war to.....
What is make the world safe for democracy?
Congress rejected the The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
What is we didn't want to get pulled into a war without our consent?