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SG SpAm/WWI
Mrs. Conway SJMS
| Term or Statement | Definition or Explanation |
|---|---|
| Isolation | Not becoming involved in the affairs of other countries |
| Yellow journalism | Exaggerated news reports of events in Cuba. The reports were about Spanish cruelty to Cubans. |
| U.S.S. Maine | American warship sent to Cuba as a show of American strength. Mysteriously blown up in Havana Harbor. Spain was blamed. |
| Reasons for Spanish American War | Protection of American business interest, American support of Cuban efforts to win independence from Spain, raising tensions as a result of the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine, yellow journalism. |
| Results of the Spanish American War | US emerged as a world power, Cuba gained independence from Spain, US gained possessions of Puerto Rico, Guam, & the Phillipine Islands. |
| Reasons for U.S. involvement in WWI | Inability to remain neutral, German U-boat warfare (example sinking of Lusitania), US economic and political ties to Great Britain |
| Allies in WWI | US, Great Britain, Russia, France, Portugual, Italy, Greece, Serbia, Romania, Belguim |
| Central Powers in WWI | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire |
| League of Nations | Wilson's Fourteen Points Plan called for this association of nations to keep the peace. The United States did not joint the League. |
| Trench warfare | The use of machine guns and artillery shelling made this type of warfare necessary in WWI |
| U-boats | German submarines that sank many ships bound for Britain and France. |
| Zimmerman Telegram | Telegram between Germany and Mexico in which Germany promised to return Texas, New Mexico, Arizon to Mexico if Mexico joined Germany in war against US. |
| John J. "Black Jack" Pershing | Commander of American troops in Europe in WWI |
| Armistice | Agreement to end all fighting in a war. |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's goals for the peace treaty to end WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty to end WWI |
| Impact of Treaty of Versailles on Central Powers | Germany was stripped of colonies around the world, Germany was ordered to pay Allies for war damages, Austria-Hungary was divided into several nations. |
| Central Power | Germany |
| Central Power | Austria-Hungary |
| Central Power | Ottoman Empire |
| Central Power | Bulgaria |
| Allies | Great Britain |
| Allies | France |
| Allies | Russia |
| Allies | Portugual |
| Allies | Romania |
| Allies | Greece |
| Allies | Belguim |
| Neutral | Spain |
| Neutral | Switzerland |
| Neutral | Albania |
| Neutral | Norway and Sweden |
| Neutral | Netherlands |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship sunk by U-boats in 1915 killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans |
| Rough Riders | Volunteer calvary led by Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba made famous by Battle of San Juan Hill |
| Platt Amendment | Gave US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs at anytime |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Addition to Monroe Doctrine, prevented European intervention in Latin American, authorized US to act as "policeman" in the region. |
| Guantanamo Bay | Naval station in Cuba that US kept after Cuba was given independence. |
| Open Door Policy | Established by John Hay, stated that no single country should have a monopoly on trade with China. |
| Anti-imperialist League | Americans that believed that the US should not deny other people (other nations) the right to govern themselves. |
| Admiral Dewey | Commander of US fleet, won victory in Manila Bay in Phillipines, destroyed Spanish fleet. |
| William Seward | Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia. |
| Hawaiian Islands | Annexed by US because of its location in the Pacific Ocean, it became an important refueling and resupply post for ships going to Asia. |
| Panama Canal | Pushed for by Theodore Roosevelt, built on land purchased by US, connected Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Expensive in cost and human lives due to disease. |
| Neutrality | Refusing to take sides in a war |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during WWI |
| William McKinley | President during Spanish American War |
| New technology in WWI | Use of airplanes, poison gas, submarines, tanks, improved machine guns. |
| Foreign Policy | One country's plan on how to deal with another country. |
| Imperialism | The policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories. |
| 1898 | War of the Spanish American War. |
| Reparations | Money that a defeated nation pays for the destruction caused by a war. |
| Main U.S. reason for Panama Canal? | To get naval ships from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean faster. |
| Long term causes of World War I | Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism |
| Event that set off World War I | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
| Eddie Rickenbacker and Alvin York | American heroes of the War. |
| Russian Revolution of 1918 | The Bolsheviks took over and set up a Communist government and pulled out of the war. |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | Any ship of any type could be a sunk by the Central Powers |
| Convoy System | Used Navy ships to guard supply ships going across the Atlantic Ocean |
| War bonds | Loaning money to the government for a short period of time. |
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