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Imperialism WWI GD
Imperialism WWI Great Depression VUS.9, VUS.10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What war ensured America's role as a world power? | World War I |
| What was the Open Door Policy? | Secretary of State John Hay proposed a policy that would give all nations equal trading rights in China, ending spheres of influence |
| What was Dollar Diplomacy? | President Taft urged American banks and businesses to invest in Latin America |
| What territories were annexed as a result of the Spanish American War? | Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam |
| What three areas of the world were an interest for American Imperialism? | Asia, the Pacific and Latin America |
| How did the U.S. gain access to Panama to build a canal? | Encouraged Panama to seek independence from Colombia |
| Why was the Panama Canal important to the U.S.? | Transportation of navy and cargo from ocean to ocean quickly |
| Why was Hawaii important to American imperialists? | Refueling station in the Pacific and agricultural promise for sugar |
| In what year did World War I begin? | 1914 |
| What are the MAIN causes of World War I? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
| Why dd the U.S. remain neutral for three years? | Strong sentiment to avoid getting involved in a European War |
| Why did the U.S. change its mind and get involved in World War I? | Continued use of German unrestricted submarine warfare that led to American merchant ships being destroyed |
| What reason did Woodrow Wilson give for entering World War I? | American wanted to "make the world safe for democracy" |
| What was the name given to Wilson's plan to eliminate the causes of war? | Fourteen Points |
| What are the four key ideas of the Fourteen Points? | Self-determination, freedom of the seas, League of Nations, and Mandate System |
| What international organization was formed to keep the world from future wars? | League of Nations |
| Why was the League of Nations unsuccessful? | The US did not join |
| How did the Treaty of Versailles deal with national boundaries? | Redrew boundaries creating new nations and ethnic problems |
| Why did the US Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles? | Objected membership in the League of Nations because it did not believe foreign policy decisions should be made by an international organization |
| What fueled the period of prosperity following WWI? | New technology like the automobile and radio |
| What persuaded people to buy the new consumer goods? | mass media advertising |
| How did the radio, movies and newspapers produce a national culture? | reached a large number of people |
| What was the name given to women who challenged traditional roles in the 1920s? | Flappers |
| What was the 18th Amendment? | It prohibited the manufacturing and sale of alcohol |
| What was the result of Prohibition? | organized crime and gangsters |
| What was the basis for the Scopes Trial? | Conflict between fundamentalism (traditional christian views) and new scientific theories like evolution |
| What organization gained power because of racial tensions? | Ku Klux Klan |
| What were the causes of the Great Depression? | Overspeculation of stocks using borrowed moment that could not be repaid when the stock market crashed in 1929. |
| What was the effect of the Hawley Smoot Tariff? | Strangled world trade by increasing the price of protective tariffs |
| What was the impact of the Great Depression? | unemployment and homelessness, bank closings, political unrest, farm foreclosures and migration |
| Who was elected president in 1932? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| What program did FDR create to change the role of the government to an active participant that solved problems of the people? | The New Deal |
| Why did FDR say "We have nothing to fear, but feat itself?" | He was trying to rally a frightened nation where one in four workers was unemployed |
| What were the three parts of the New Deal? | Relief, Recovery, Reform |
| What did Relief measures provide? | direct payment to people for immediate help (WPA-Works Progress Administration) |
| What did Recovery measures provide? | bring the nation out of depression over time (AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Administration) |
| What did Reform measures provide? | Corrected unsound banking and investment practices (FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
| What was the purpose of the Social Security Act? | Offered safeguards for workers |
| What countries made up the Allied Powers? | Britain, France, Italy, Russia and the United States |
| What countries made up the Central Powers? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria |
| What event sparked the beginning of World War I? | The assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne. |
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