Imperialism and World War 1 MC

history

What is imperialism

The policy in which stronger nations extended their economic, political or control over weaker territories

What is Manifest destiny

The belief that it was our nation's fate and duty to settle our North American lands coast to coast. This understood each territorial acquisition(its justification for doing it)

Why was Africa a major target for European imperialism

They had lots of raw materials and new markets

What does “The sun never sets on the British Empire” mean

They controlled so many people in so many places, that it was always daylight somewhere

in 1837-1901 how much of the worlds land and people did the British empire control

¼ or 25%

What were the reasons for American Imperialism 

Manifest Destiny, Economic competition, Political/Military competition, belief in Anglo-Saxon superiority, spreading christianity and culture 

Who was the president of of Naval War College

Alfred T. Mahan

What book Advocated for military expansion

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1873

Where did we stress strategic bases

Isthmus of Panama, Hawaii

What does WASP stand for

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

What is an Anglo-Saxon

White Western Europeans (considered “good” immigrants)

Why did america want to take over Hawaii

they had lots of good resources like fruits

what happened in 1897

McKinley becomes president and submits treaty to annex Hawaii

When did hawaii become a US territory

July 1898

When was the Spanish-American war and how long was it

• 1898

• 6 weeks

Sensationalist news accounts gave US ___

“war fever”

 “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war” if from what

Yellow Journalism

US involvement was based on what two things

•  economics

• moral necessity

What is Yellow Journalism

Truly fake news

What was the De Lome Letter

a letter from spain making fun of the president

What was the last event before the Spanish- American War

the USS Maine blowing up