11.6 history vocab

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Type of warfare where submarine sink ships such as passenger ships without a warning.

Zimmerman Note

Message from Germany to Mexico promising a return of land that Mexico lost during Mexican Cession if they formed alliance with Germany during WWI.

Neutrality

Not choosing a side in a conflict

Isolationism

Avoiding political alliances with other countries

Ratification

To formally approve

Annexation (Annex)

To add territory

Commerce

Business/ trade

Imperialism

When a stronger country takes over a weaker country

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that exaggerates the truth

Corollary

To add ideas to an earlier document

Diplomacy

Maintaining peaceful relationships between countries

Foreign Policy

Relationship with other countries

Doctrine

Government policy

acquisition

To get land or territory

Foreign

Outside the United States

Propaganda

Information that is designed to spread certain ideas/beliefs and persuade people

Militarism

Building up military and supplies

Alliance

An agreement between countries to work together

Nationalism

Extreme pride in your country

Frontier

New territory that is often unsettled

Social Darwinism

Survival of the fittest: superior race/group of people will survive

Open Door Policy

US Policy for EQUAL trade in China

Sphere of Influence

When one country has social, political or economic influence over another country.

Tariff

Tax on imported goods

Big Stick Diplomacy

US foreign policy to use military to keep European countries out of Latin America

Ratify

To approve

Treaty of Versailles

Peace treaty that ended World War I

Fourteen Points

President Wilson plan for post world war peace

League of Nations

International peacekeeping organization created after WWI to settle international disputes

Schenck v. United States (1917)

US Supreme Court Case that ruled that freedom of speech and freedom of the

press under the First Amendment could be limited only if the words in the

circumstances created "a clear and present danger”.

Espionage

spying

Clear and present danger

A risk or threat to public safety

Sedition

Speech that criticizes the government

Quota

A limit on the number of immigrants from a specific country/region allowed into the United State