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ww1 and wilson + imp
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| moral diplomacy | wilson's foreign policy that said the united states should support struggling democracies. everyone gets democracy |
| underwood tariff | started the income tax before the 16th amendment and significantly cut tariffs. it was a reflection of wilson's values as it was populat ro lower tariffs |
| federal reserve system | created a national banks that only lends to other banks that regulate the country's money supply and interest rates to stabilize everything |
| federal trade commission | breaks up money and trusts on an ongoing basis |
| clayton anti-trust act | strengthened the sherman-antitrust act and said unions are not trusts |
| new freedom | wilson's plan to make people free from bank cooperation and wars |
| alice paul | leader of the national women's party and the last suffragette. marked the end of the first wave of feminism |
| margaret sanger | started planned parenthood, was the first woman to talk about reproductive freedom, and started second wave feminism |
| nationalism | extreme patriotism |
| militarism | building up to a country's military often leads to an arms race |
| arms race | a competition between nations for superiority in development and accumulation of weapons |
| triple entente | pre war allainces, incuded britian, france and russia |
| triple alliance included | germany, austria hungary, and italy |
| franz ferdinand | arch duke of austria, his assassination in serbia helped start ww1 |
| gavrilo princip | ferdinand's assassin and a part of the black hand and was a serbian nationalist |
| franz joesph | the emperor of ah wanted to punish serbia for his nephew's death |
| why couldn't he attack serbia? | if he attacked serbia, he would've killed a lot of slavic people, meaning russia would get involved |
| kaizen willhem the second | king of germany during ww1 |
| tzar nicolas the second | king of russia during ww1 |
| notes about the bffs | willhem was nicolas's mentor, he tells nicolas not to go to war. russian forces are ready to be mobilized, misunderstood, so the letter fails and asks franz joesph wether to go to war or no and he says yes to war |
| serbia vs joesph | franz joesph sends serbia a list of requirments and they meet _ but are not willing to give up princip so franz joesph fights them |
| david lloyd-george | prime minister of england has to keep the alliance since clemenceau nd wilson hate eachother, they sign the treaty of versailles that will fail |
| u-boat | german sub during ww1, was the best weapon in history. it became a floating war crime |
| von schliffeun plan | germany plan to fight a simultaneous 2 front war against france and russia |
| battle o' the marne | battle in france where the war stalemated until the next 4 years on the western front which is germany. france got destroyed |
| the rms lucetania | british passenger ship sunk by german u-boats in the atlantic, which killed 100 americans. may 1915 |
| sussex pledge | germany promised to stop unrestricted sub warfare. the reason the us joins the war. germany will use the sub less in the atlantic. germany thought it would win the war before breaking their promise. america will the join the war |
| allied powers | britain, france, russia, italy, and united states |
| central powers | ottoman empire, germany, and austria hungary |
| imperialism | when a stronger country takes over a weaker country for its resources. all the countries will fight for control over china |
| sphere of influence | territory or an area that a country protects |
| germany and italy | two new countries in europe in the mid to late 1800s |
| mexican revolution | civil war in mexico where wilson fails to capture pancho villa |
| seward's folly | the purchase of alaska from russia in 1867 by seceratry of state william seward |
| jose marti | cuban revolutionary and poet who brought international attention to the cuban civil war |
| yellow journalism | when the media makes up exaggerated stories to sell to the media. joesph pulitzer and william hearst were the two famous publishers who took advantage of the cuban civil war |
| de lome letter | letter written by senor don enrique dupuy that said mckinley was weak. mckinley responds by sending warships to moniter the cuban coast |
| uss maine | american ship destroyed off the coast of cuba in 1988 which was blamed on spain |
| george dewey | admiral of the us navy during spam who destroyed the spanish fleet in manila. mostly takes place in spanish colonies |
| rough riders | volunteer cavalry regiment led under the leadership of tr. he gained national reputation |
| treaty of paris 1989 | treaty of ends spam the us acquires cuba, puerto rico, guam, and the philippines for 20 million dollars |
| platt amendment | treaty between the us and cuba that attempted to protect cuba's independence from foreign intervention. it allowed the us to get involved in cuba's domestic affairs in order to enforce cuban revolution |
| insular cases | series of supreme court cases that ask the question does the constitution follow the flag. the court says no |
| common wealth | colony that gets limited independence from its master |
| protectorate | a colony completely dominated by another country |
| concentration camps | germany used those to teach german culture to the nubians |
| open door policy | us foreign policy to allow free trade in china |
| boxer rebellion | a revolt by chinese peasants against european rules, which fails then leads to the open door policy |
| big stick diplomacy | tr's foreign policy that "might makes right" (strongest survives) |
| dollar diplomacy | us foreign policy that taft favored that uses dollars to spread democracy |
| hawaii | pacific island added because of its sugar. mckinley annexed it |
| panama canal | water way that connects the pacific and atlantic ocean |
| treaty of portsmouth | ended the russo-japenese war and won tr the nobel peace prize |
| white man's burden | poem by kipling that said the us had an obligation to civilize the phillippines |
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