Imperialism & WW1

US helped Panama have a revolution against Colombia in order to

• build a canal

• control pineapple plantations

• control sugar plantations

• force Colombia to pay debts

The US gained Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after this major war.

• Spanish American War

• World War 1

• Mexican American War

• Texas Independence

Made it legal to draft men through a lottery system in WWI

• Selective Service Act

• WIB

• Espionage & Sedition Act

• League of Nations

One event that influenced America's participation in WWI

• sinking of Lusitania

• sinking of the USS Maine

• British naval blockade

• Enrique Dupuy letter

Policy that opened trade with China

• Open Door Policy

• Closed Door Policy

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Moral Diplomacy

Who did the US sell more weapons to during WWI?

• Britain

• Spain

• Germany

• Austria Hungary

What cost Germany $33 billion after WWI?

• reparations

• demilitarized zone

• mandates

• tanks

Which trench warfare terms means to kill more of your enemy than you lose?

• war of attrition

• trench foot

• no man's land

• stalemate

The taking over of other countries for natural resources, new markets, and strategic location.

• imperialism

• social darwinism

• nationalism

• militarism

An American solider in the American Expeditionary Force was known as a

• doughboy

• canal

• republican

• democrat