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What motivated the U.S. to expand off the continent?
need for raw materials / or new markets / Social Darwinism / expand capitalism /Spread Christianity /Naval Bases
100
What was it called when the newspaper exaggerates or sensationalizes on stories that we read in order to sell newspapers?
What is Yellow Journalism
100
What allowed ships to move swiftly from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean faster?
What is Panama Canal
100
What is an agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another defense?
What is an Alliance
100
Was Woodrow Wilson a republican or Democrat?
What is a Democrat
200
In the late nineteenth century, the U.S. moved from isolation to what ideology?
What is interventionism / Imperialism
200
Written by the Spanish minister, what letter was stolen from the mail and delivered to the Hearst- Saying that if Mexico attacked the US, if the US declared war on Germany, then Germany would give Mexico back territory lost in the Mexican American War?
What is the De Lome Letter
200
What policy did the U.S. use to increase economic opportunity to trade with China?
What is the OpenDoor policy
200
What is it called when someone refuses to choose a side during a war?
What is Neutrality
300
Who was president during the Spanish American War?
Who is McKinley
300
Who convinced the U.S. they need to build a powerful navy?
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan
300
Which president sent the Great White fleet around the world to display the nation's naval powers?
Who is President Roosevelt
300
Who was assassinated in Serbia during a parade, igniting WWI?
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria- Hungary
400
What country was fighting for their independence when the U.S. offered to help?
What is Cuba
400
What battle ship mysteriously exploded while docked in Havana Harbor?
What is USS Maine
400
In China, European countries had a special trade privilege in an area called what?
What are Spheres of Influence
400
What refers to a group of people who share a common language, religion, history, and a tradition?
What is ethnic group? (ethnicity)
500
The idea that Americans were superior to other cultures and countries and should expand to fulfill the nation's destiny is an example of what?
What is Social Darwinism
500
The Teller Amendment states that the US would not annex Cuba. What amendment allowed the U.S. to control and influence Cuba?
What is the Platt Amendment
500
What Doctrine described the role of the U.S. as a policeman that would keep European powers from intervening in the Western Hemisphere to collect debts?
What is Theodore Roosevelt 's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
500
List three countries in the central powers.
What are Germany, Ottoman Empire, and Austria Hungary