IMPERIALISM (Module 15)
Policy of extending a country’s power through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism?
Yellow journalism helped push the U.S. into this war
What is the Spanish-American War?
Acronym for the causes of World War I
What is M.A.I.N.?
Clause forcing Germany to accept responsibility for the war
What is the war-guilt clause?
One reason for imperialism based on belief in cultural superiority
What is Social Darwinism or Manifest Destiny?
Treaty that ended the Spanish-American War
What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
Type of warfare defined by trenches and stalemates
What is trench warfare?
Money Germany was forced to pay after WWI
What are reparations?
Explosion that helped cause the Spanish-American War
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Territory where the U.S. fought guerrilla warfare
What is the Philippines?
Telegram that helped push the U.S. into WWI
What is the Zimmermann Note?
Maximum size of Germany’s army after WWI
What is 100,000 troops?
U.S. naval officer who defeated Spain in the Philippines
Who was Commodore George Dewey?
Main Hawaiian crop that drove U.S. annexation
What is sugar?
Supreme Court case that limited free speech during WWI
What is Schenck v. United States?
What Germany lost as punishment after WWI
What is territory?
Amendment that limited Cuba’s independence
What is the Platt Amendment?
Political status of Puerto Rico today
What is a commonwealth?
Treaty that officially ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
International organization created but rejected by the U.S.
What is the League of Nations?