Americanism expansionism and WW1

Spanish American war:
the united states began to be regarded as what?

a world power, becasue the US deafeated spain in the Spanish American war in 1898

what is yellow journalism?

this is the practice of skewing facts to amke a news story better.

what ship was sank in order to promote the yellow journalism?

USS Maine

what Spanish colonies did the united states take over after winning the war?

phillippines, cuba, hawaii , and puearto rico.

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who led the rough riders to a heroic charge at the Battle of San Juan hill?

Theodore Roosevelt

what did Theodore Roosevelt believe the us should use its military strength to expand our international power?

Big stick diplomacy

who did not rely on the Dollar Diplomacy?

William H. Taft

Woodrow wilson was apart of the what?

moral diplomacy

what policy forced China to trade with the Western world, that was important for new US lands?

open door policy

What territory was purchased from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million.

Alaska

In 1898, what did President McKinley authorize the annexation of?

Hawaii into a territory

Who overthrew the power of Queen Liliuokalani in a coup by plantation owners?

Stanford B. Dole

Who instructed the US to build its naval power to protect the new land that had just been acquired?

Alfred Thayer Mahan

What was finished being constructed in 1914 which also connected the Atlantic and pacific ocean?

The panama Canal

Identify M.A.I.N.

MIlitarism, alliance systems, impearealism, and nationalism

Explain militarism.

Nations would begun a massive buildup of military, recruitment of soliders, and stockpiling of new weapons like the machine gun

explain allancies

Nations would form pacts to protect each other if war broke out. Which caused a domino effect when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Assassinated.

explain Impearealism.

Large empires dominating smaller nations or caused tension and competition for these lands bred rivalries between empires.

explain Nationalism

Nations worked to build a strong national pride in their citizens, often using propaganda in the cade of WW1k it is tied to sense of superiority over other cultures

Why did the USA join the war?

President Woodrow Wilson ran on a platform o f neutrality despite his efforts he could not keep the US out of the war?

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What ship caused the germens to declare a strategy of Unrestricted submarine warfare to try to keep supplies from the Etente?

Sinking of the USS Louisiana

An interceoted message from germany to mexico, it ofered Mexico land if they attacked the U.S.?

A Zimmerman telegram

what requiered all men between the age of 21 and 30 register for the military draft.

The selecive service act

what makes it a crime to interfere with the eddorts of the us armed force during a war

the espionage act

what outailed our free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war?

sedition act

what landmark court case that deemed that espionage act did not violate the 1st amendment?

schenck vs US

the American expedition force during WW1 was led by who?

General John J Pershing

what was WW1 defined as and what new technologies did it include?

the trench warfare’s and machince, guns, tanks, and gas masks

what President woodrow wilson sent for peace

14 points which adopted to the traty of versallies

What did the us join?

League of Nations