Unit 3

Big Stick Policy

Use diplomacy backed by military force

Open Door Policy

Equal trade in China

Square Deal

Fairness for workers, consumers, and businesses

Moral Diplomacy

Promoting democracy abroad

Yellow Journalism

Sensational news to sell papers

Dollar Diplomacy

Using money to influence foreign nations

Platt Amendment

Allowed U.S. control over Cuba

Bull Moose Party

Roosevelt's Progressive Party

W.E.B. Du Bois

NAACP leader advocating civil rights

NAACP

Organization fighting racial discrimination

Panama Canal

Shortened trade routes

Great White Fleet

Showed U.S. naval power

U.S. in WWI (why)

German aggression and threats

War Industries Board

Controlled wartime production

War Bonds

Loans from citizens to fund war

Selective Service Act

Military draft

Espionage/Sedition Acts

Limited speech during war