USI.5 a-c Spanish American War & WWI
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| A policy of building up a nation's military to prepare for war. | Militarism
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| President of the U. S. during World War I. | Woodrow Wilson
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| Contained in Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace (The Fourteen Points), this was an organization of nations formed to maintain peace. | League of Nations
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| A battle line that extended across Belgium and France, containing trenches, that was a main battlefront of World War I. | Western Front
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| The nations of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire that fought against the Allied Powers in World War I. | Central Powers
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| The nations of Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, and Serbia that were later joined by the United States to fight against the Central Powers in World War I. | Allied Powers
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| A telegram sent by the Germans to urge the Mexicans to attack the United States in return for the winning back of lands in the southwestern U. S. | Zimmerman Telegram
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| German attacks on shipping by submarines. | Submarine warfare
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| The desire of a nation to stay out of international affairs. | Isolationism
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| An agreement to stop fighting. The agreement of World War I was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. | Armistice
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| Warfare used widely in World War I in which soldiers of opposite sides shot at each other from a system of ditches separated by a "no man's land." | Trench warfare
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| To prepare a nation's military forces for war. | Mobilize
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| American battleship that exploded in Havana harbor in 1898. |
U.S.S. Maine
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| Canal built by the U. S. across Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The canal was completed in 1914. | Panama Canal
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| President Theodore Roosevelt's plan to use U. S. military might to create stability in Latin America, beginning with the building of the Panama Canal. | Big Stick Diplomacy
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| President James Monroe's warning to European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere; issued in 1824. | Monroe Doctrine
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| Statement made by President Theodore Roosevelt that the U. S. had a right to be involved in Latin American countries to preserve law and order. | Roosevelt Corollary
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| Fought with the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War and, later, as U. S. President, directed the building of the Panama Canal. | Theodore Roosevelt
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| The policy of powerful countries to gain control of weaker countries. | Imperialism
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| Lands gained by the United States as territories after the Spanish-American War. | Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
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| Cuban citizens who fought for their independence from Spain. | Cuban Rebels
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| Using exaggerated news stories to sell newspapers. | Yellow Journalism
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| What 2 things influenced the United States during the Spanish American war? | Economic interest & Public Opionion
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| All the following are The United States emerged as a world power. Cuba gained independence from Spain. The United States gained possession of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. | Results of the Spanish American War
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| All the following are Protection of American business interests in Cuba American support of Cuban rebels to gain independence from Spain Rising tensions between Spain & the U.S. as a result of the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor | Reasons for the Spanish American War
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| * asserted the United States’ right to interfere in the economic matters of other nations in the Americas • claimed the United States’ right to exercise international police power • advocated Big Stick Diplomacy (building the Panama Canal). | Key points of The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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| The United States’ involvement in ______________ ended a long tradition of avoiding involvement in European conflicts and set the stage for the U.S. to emerge as a global superpower later in the twentieth century. | World War I
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| Who are the major Allied Powers? | • British Empire
• France
• Russia
• Serbia
• Belgium
• United States
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| Who are the major Central Powers? | • German Empire
• Austro-Hungarian Empire
• Bulgaria
• Ottoman Empire
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| • Inability to remain neutral • German submarine warfare: Sinking of the Lusitania • United States economic and political ties to Great Britain • The Zimmermann Telegram | Reasons for United States involvement in World War I
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| At the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson prepared a peace plan known as the _____ that called for the formation of the League of Nations, a peacekeeping organization. | Fourteen Points
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| The United States decided not to join the _________ because the United States Senate failed to ratify the _________. | League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
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