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CH. 20 and 22
Terms | Description/term | Description/term |
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Economic Crisis of 18933-97 | overbuilt economy and insufficient manufactured goods, along with too much output | |
The World's Columbian Exposition (The World's Fair) | celebration of industrial and innovative America, and 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival to America | |
Josiah Strong | "imperialism of righteousness" by white Americans are obligated to civilize and Christianize non-Anglo-Saxons. | |
White Man's Burden | Rudyard Kipling | |
Foreign Missions | Women's Union Missionary Society of Americans for Foreign Lands; Student Volunteers for Foreign Missions | "commerce follows the missionary" |
Republican stalwart James G. Blaine | Good Neighbor policy | |
Pan-American Conference | create foreign dependency on American goods | |
Great White Fleet | Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1884, for officer corps training | |
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan: helped define American foreign policy at the time. | THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON AMERICAN HISTORY, 1660-1873 (1890) | international strength not only from open markets, but the control of colonies. addvocated annexation of bases in Caribbean and Pacific to enhance navy's ability to threaten or wage warfare |
annexation of Hawaii (July 7,1898) | January 16, 1898 Queen Liliuokalani was deposed | Cleveland refused annexation, but McKinley did not |
Pearl Harbor | 1887 | |
American China Development Company (1896) | consortium of New York bankers | afraid that the Manchu Dynasty would be taken by Europe, Russia, or Japaneses colonial powers |
John Jay | Open Door Policy | note to six superpowers that America may advance its commercial interests anywhere on same terms with other imperialist nations. |
1898-99 Chinese Rebellions | Harmonious Righteous Fists (Boxers) | Boxer REbellion |
Second Open Door notes | indicated American intentions to trade with China | set base for twentieth century foreign policy |
Ten Years war | 1868-78 | |
Jose Marti | led the insurgents against Spanish reign of Cuba | died as a martyr in 1895 |
Cuba Libre | America sympathized, except for Grover Cleveland | 1896: Congress passed resolution recognizing the independence of Cuba |
February 15, 1898 | USS MAINE explosion in Havana harbor | "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain" |
April 25, 1898 | Congress passed war resolution | Senator Henry Teller of Colorado gave disclaimer. |
Spanish-American War | lasted ten weeks; U.S. victory after the surrender of Santiago | Cuba protectorate |
Platt Amendment (1901) | Senator Orville Platt of Connecticut | have control over Cuba for the interests of American |
Cuban-American Treaty (1903-1935) | sugar industry/ anti-American sentiment | |
Philippines (until 1946) | obtained 1899; George Dewey; Manila Bay | Filipinos rebel until 1902 |
Anti-Imperialist Society | prominent Bostonians | |
Roosevelt: Big Stick Policy | "speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far." | EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CH.22 #############33 |
Roosevelt Corollary | T.R.'s policy asserting U.S. authortiy to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations; an expansion of the Monroe Doctrine | |
Monroe Doctrine | Dec. 1823, Monroe declared to Congress that "Americans are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power." | |
Open Door (1899) | american policy of seeking equal trade and investment opportunities in foreign nations or regions. | Secretary of State John Hay |
Russo-Japanese War (1904) | endangered U.S. trading relations with China | |
Root-Takahira Agreement (Elihu Root and Takahira Kogoro) | affirmed "existing status quo" in Asia between U.S. and Japan | |
Taft: Dollar Diplomacy; Secretary of State: Philander C. Knox | assumption that political influence would follow increased U.S. trade and investment | |
Wilson: Moralism and Realism | opposed Militarism and Imperialism; for capitalist development,, democracy and free trade | Mexican war policies 1914: refused to recognize Mexican gov until the Great War's presence was felt around 1916 |
Porfirio Diaz overthrown by Porfirio Madero killed by Victoriano Huerta, then overthrown by Venustiano Carranza | Francisco "Pancho" Villa | |
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia | June 28,1914 | killed by Gavrilo Princip |
May 7, 1815 | Sinking of Lusitania, British liner | 128 American deaths |
Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy | Central Powers |
Triple Entente | Great Britain, France, Russia | Alliies |
Committee on Public Information | Govt agency during WWI, sought to shape public opinion in support of the war effort through newspapers, pamphlets, speeches, films, and other media | George Creel |
Selective Service Act | established the military draft for WWI | |
Women's Peace Party (1915) | ||
Zimmermann Note | ||
American Expiditionary Force (AEF) | led by John J. Pershing | intense six month training before battle |
War Industries Board (WIB) | The federal agency that reorganized industry for maximum efficiency and productivity during WWI | Bernard M. Baruch |
Food and Fuel Act, August 1917 | Food Administration | Herbert Hoover |
Liberty Bonds | interest-bearing certificates sold by the U.S. govt to finance American WWI effort | |
National War Labor Board (NWLB) | "supreme court for labor" | Samuel Gompers appointed |
Espionage Act | law prohibited against obstruction the nation's war efforts. used to omit all criticism and dissent during WWI. | |
Women in Industry Service (WIS) | ||
National American Women Suffrage Association | Carrie Chapman Catt | |
Alice Paul | National Woman's Party |