MAAP Review Imperialism and WWI Vocabulary

 

TAFT- foreign, economic policy in which the U.S. invested (LA) to improve US business.

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Moreal Diplomacy

• Roosevelt Corollary

Gaining land, colonies, or territories

• acquisition

• properties

• purchases

• real eastate

The Expansion of the U.S. created new markets for goods and the acquisition of territories.  America became a World Power

• imperialism

• revolution

• industrialization

• urbanization

Rough Rider in Spanish American War

American president

Imperialist- Big Stick Diplomacy

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

Against the Spain.

Fought on two fronts:

Cuba

Philippine Islands

Consequence- territories of (PPG) Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guam.

• Spanish-American War

• Philippine-American War

• WWI

• WWII

Officer in the Navy and historian, wanted to increase the size and power of the United States Navy and

Protection of the Seas.

Author-The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

• Alfred T. Mahan

• George Dewey

• Matthew Perry

• Douglas McArthur

Journalists (Newspapers) wrote articles/stories that exaggerated/sensationalized events to make U.S. citizens respond in a certain way. For example, demand war, Spanish American War.

• yellow journalists

• muckrakers

• investigative reporters

• news anchors

Battle ship that exploded in off the coast of Cuba. Cause of the Spanish American War.

• USS Maine

• USS Arizona

• USS Spain

• USS Cuba

Man-made waterway between North and South America.

Impact:

Economic- cutting shipping time

Military-the Great White Fleet could protect our shipping lanes (Protection of the seas)

• Panama Canal

• Suez Canal

• Latin America Canal

• American Canal

Teddy Roosevelt foreign policy for Latin America. This policy called for the use of force to protect Latin America.

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Moral Diplomacy

• Latin American Diplomacy