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Imperialism, Unit 3
Vocab pertaining to US Imperialism for Unit 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | taking over land and making it part of your empire/country |
| Empire | all the land owned by a powerful nation that has expanded beyond it's original borders |
| foreign policy | a policy used by a nation that dictates it's dealings/relationship with other countries |
| alliance | a formal agreement between two countries to work together in a specific manner or for a specific reason |
| Rough Riders | American volunteer cavalry in the Spanish American War, led by Theodore Roosevelt before he was president |
| Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's ideas/draft on the terms that should be set up at the end of WWI |
| Diplomacy | the conduct by government officials of negotiations with representatives from other countries |
| Yellow Journalism | writing style by American writers that told truthful stories but with VERY exaggerated details. Meant to evoke a strong emotion about the content of the article. |
| espionage | the act of spying |
| stalemate | when neither side can advance in war, so it's almost like a tie |
| Spanish American War | Originating as a revolution in Cuba, the US stepped in and helped defeat Spain and helped Cuba gain it's independence. |
| Treaty of Paris | Official document that sold Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the US from Spain for $20 million. |
| USS Maine | US battleship that exploded off the coast of Cuba and led a lot of Americans to want to join the Cubans in their fight against the Spanish. |
| Big Stick Policy | Theodore Roosevelt's official corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that said the US would get involved to help collect debts in the Western Hemisphere. It relied on the US having a large Navy. |
| Treaty of Versailles | formal treaty that ended WWI. The US did not sign it as we did not want to get dragged in to future wars. |
| no man's land | the land between trenches in WWI |
| League of Nations | Wilson's idea of a peace-time alliance that would be signed by all nations to help protect us in the years after WWI from a future war. |
| Open Door Policy | US policy with China that opened China up to trade with all nations. |
| M.A.I.N. | Underlying causes of WWI. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. |
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