Key Terms: Imperialism

sometimes called neutrality or “isolationism” is the application of Libertarianism to foreign affairs.

• Non-intervention

• Socialism

• Annexation

• Wilsonism

the expansion of a nation’s authority over other nations through the acquisition of land and/or the imposition of economic and political domination.

• Autocracy

• Communism

• Imperialism

• Capitalism

An ideology that seeks to apply biological concepts of Darwinism or evolutionary theory to sociology and politics, often under the assumption that conflict between societal groups leads to social progress, as superior groups surpass inferior ones.

• Social Darwinism

• Evolution

• White Surpermacy

• Manifest Destiny

the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

• Social Darwinism

• Manifest Destiny

• Open Door Policy

• Catholicism

Acquiring possession of a piece of land or a country, usually by force or without permission

• Global domination

• Annexation

• Dictatorship

• Anglo-Saxon superiority

In international relations (and history), a sphere of influence is a region within one country over which another country claims certain exclusive rights.

• Muckraking

• Sphere of influence

• Yellow Jounalism

• Hearstonomics

The Open Door Policy was a proposal put forth by the United States in 1899 intended to ensure that all countries be allowed to trade freely with _____

An uprising in northern China against the spread of Western

and Japanese influence there.

• Poodle puddling

• Cat Attack

• Labrador Uprising

• Boxer Rebellion

a region within one country over which another country

claims certain exclusive rights.

• Open Door Policy

• Sphere of Influence

• Intervention

• Annexation

The United States aquired Alaska from which nation?

• Germany

• Great Britain

• Spain

• Russia