What is the policy of extending a country's power by taking over a smaller, weaker nation?

• Militarism

• Alliance

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

Which of the following describes the Zimmerman Telegram?

• A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace

• A secret German message to Mexico supporting the Mexican Government in combating the U.S. during WWI

• An agreement where Mexico would have received the states of New Mexico and Nevada for German support

• Sending German submarines to form a naval blockade against enemy shipping

Why was building the Panama Canal so important to the United States? 

• It allowed endangered animals to expand their territory
• It allowed U.S. families to stay connected with each other
• It increased Canada's military capability.
• It would be a major shipping canal connecting the Pacific & Atlantic Oceans

Yellow Journalism is....

• The Loudoun Sun Times
• Exaggerated News Reports
• Yellow Paper Reports
• Nonfiction News Reports

The partial outline below describes what important historical developments?

I. ____________________

A. Growing nationalism in Europe

B. Growing militarism in Europe

C. The creation of secret alliances

• The colonization of Africa and Asia

• The rise of democracy

• The causes of communism

• The causes of WWI

Social Darwinists in the late 1800s and early 1900s used the philosophy of “survival of the fittest” to justify which national action?

• creating regional trade partnerships

• supporting local humanitarian aid

• legislating progressive political reform

• expanding existing colonial empires

Which of the following BEST explains the population increases shown in the table?

• Many African Americans moved north to join the military.

• African Americans from the South moved north to find better opportunities.

• African Americans already made up the majority of the population in these cities.

• Many northern businesses preferred African American workers over immigrant laborers.

Which government action was designed to discourage criticism of U.S. involvement in World War I?

• the Fourteen Points

• the War Industries Board

• the Zimmermann Telegram

• the Espionage and Sedition Acts

When I addressed the Congress on the twenty-sixth of February last I thought that it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms. . . . But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable.

—President Woodrow Wilson

Why did the United States make this foreign policy change?

• Germany pledged to respect isolationist countries.

• Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare.

• A U.S. naval base was attacked by an enemy nation.

• The U.S. refused to join an international peace organization.

The Great Migration refers to the shift of the African American population from the

• Rural South to the rural North.

• Rural North to the rural South.

• Urban South to the urban North.

• rural South to the urban North