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Which US President implemented Big Stick Diplomacy to get what he wanted from other countries?
Who is POTUS Theodore Roosevelt?
The islands US annexed in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
Which country in the Caribbean did the US influence with the Platt Amendment after gaining independence from Spain?
What is Cuba?
Imperialism is best described as __________________.
What is a nation attempting to politically or economically control another country?
This country tried to make the Panama Canal before the US.
What is France?
This person wrote a book promoting the US trade in foreign markets in 1890.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
The US gained possession of these islands after the Spanish-American War.
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
The Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) ended a conflict between these two countries.
What is Russia and Japan?
Including a territory into the United States (or another country).
What is a annex(ation)?
This influenced why the US adopted imperialist policy.
What is Westward Expansion?
One of the US's first acts of imperialism, the US removed Hawaiian Queen _____________from leadership.
Who is (Queen)Liluokalani?
A canal was built here in 1914 by the United States.
What is the Panama Canal?
This war started the US's imperialist streak.
A waterway built by humans is called a __________.
What is a canal?
The Panama Canal connects these two oceans.
What is the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans?
Publication of the De Lôme Letter highlighted negative comments of who against POTUS?
Who is a Spanish Ambassador (Enrique Dupuy de Lôme)?
This naval base was built in Hawaii.
What is Pearl Harbor?
After the _________ sank, yellow journalists falsely reported that Spain attacked it, enraging Americans against the Spanish.
What is the USS Maine?
Reporters who report on sensational, maybe even fake, stories are called this.
What is yellow journalism?
This Caribbean country is still a territory of the US.
What is Puerto Rico?
Economic and military factors caused this group to use imperialist policies during this period.
POTUS Roosevelt's 1904 Corrollary declared that the US would intervene in _____________to prevent imperialist nations from doing the same thing.
What is Latin America?
The US proposed this policy to prevent an international incident, where instead of competing for trade in China, all countries could trade with China.
What is Open Door Policy?
A country threatens to use its military to get what it wants.
What is big stick diplomacy?
The US prevented conflict in Asia because it would have _________.
What is disrupted trade in the region?