Laws
Concepts
People
Events/Places
Miscellaneous
100
Act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
100
Glorification of the military.
What is militarism?
100
Emperor of Germany, who assured Austria-Hungary that Germany would stand by its ally if war came.
What is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
100
Battle front between the Allies and Central Powers in western Europe during WWI.
What is the Western Front?
100
German submarines.
What are U-boats?
200
A set of conditions under which Cuba was granted independence in 1902, including restrictions on rights of Cubans and granting the US the “right to intervene” to preserve order in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
200
President Theodore Roosevelt’s reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine, in 1904, to keep the Western Hemisphere free from intervention by European powers.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
200
Archduke and heir to the Austria-Hungary throne. He was assassinated with his wife Sophie, by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist during a routine visit to Sarajevo.
Who is Francis Ferdinand?
200
Artificial waterway constructed through the Isthmus of Panama to give ships quick access from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
200
Newspapers that used sensational headlines and exaggerated stories in order to promote readership.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
Act passed by Congress in 1917 enacting severe penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activities.
What is the Espionage Act?
300
Theodore Roosevelt’s policy of creating and using, when necessary, a strong military to achieve America’s goals.
What is “Big Stick” Diplomacy?
300
Publisher of the New York Journal whose stories of exaggerated Spanish atrocities and compared the Cuban rebels to the patriots of the American Revolution. This influenced President McKinley’s entrance into the Spanish-American War.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
300
The movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the Industrial North.
What is the Great Migration?
300
Telegram written by German Foreign Minister proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the US during WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Note?
400
In 1918, Congress passed this act, which further limited freedom of speech.
What is the Sedition Act?
400
The belief that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore were destined to rule over inferior peoples and cultures.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Cuban patriot who launched the war for independence from Spain. He died in one of the first battles.
Who is José Martí?
400
The event in which a ship went down from an explosion in the hull on Feb. 15, 1898 and gave the US an excuse to fight in the war against Spain.
What is the sinking of the Maine?
400
President Taft’s policy of expanding American investments abroad, especially in Latin America and Asia.
What is “Dollar Diplomacy”?
500
1900 law establishing a civil government in Puerto Rico.
What is the Foraker Act?
500
Aggressive nationalism
What is Jingoism?
500
Historian who noted that the frontier had been closed by gradual settlement in the 19th century.
Who is Frederick J. Turner?
500
France’s former territory lost during the war with a collection of German states in 1871.
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
500
British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915 killing 1,200 passengers including 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?