(SS) Unit 4 Lessons 1-2 Vocabulary

a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, a regiment raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War

• Rough Riders

• Buffalo Soldiers

• League of Nations

• 14 Points

African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier after the Civil War; they fought during the Spanish-American War

• Rough Riders

• Buffalo Soldiers

• League of Nations

• 14 Points

A man-made waterway between North and South America that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean

• Convoy

• Suez Canal

• 14 Points

• Panama Canal

To add as an extra part

• attribute

• ascend

• annex

• interior

An addition to the Monroe Doctrine by President Theodore Roosevelt that states that the US would be the “police” of the Western Hemisphere

• 14 Points

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Treaty of Paris

• Zimmerman Telegram

An armed conflict between Spain and US in 1898 that began after an explosion on the USS Maine, fought to help Cuba gain independence from Spain

• WWII

• Civil War

• WWI

• Spanish-American War

Signed by Spain and the US to end the Spanish-American War, made Cuba independent, and made Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines US territories

• 14 Points

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Treaty of Paris

• Zimmerman Telegram

international diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare

• League of Nations

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Treaty of Paris

• Zimmerman Telegram

World War I were Great Britain (and the British Empire), France, and the Russian Empire, formally linked by the Treaty of London of September 5, 1914

• League of Nations

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in WWI

• League of Nations

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers