Imperialism & WWI

When one country takes control of another for economic, political or military gain it is called?

• Colonialism

• Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny

• Nationalism

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

Match the following

Groups:

(a) Japan

,

(b) China

,

(c) Hawai'i

,

(d) Alaska

• Open Door Policy

• Treaty of Kanagawa

• Boxer Rebellion

• Purchased from Russia

• "Seward's Folly"

• Rich in gold, minerals, and other natural resources

• Sugar and pineapple plantations

• Commodore Matthew Perry

• annexed by US

• Sugar growers wanted to not pay tariffs

The belief that the US should stay out of other nation's affairs. ​ (a)  

The belief the United States to expand west and beyond it's continental borders. ​ (b)  

The control of another country's political and economic system. ​ (c)  

• isolationism
• expansionism
• imperialism

Which US ship sank in Havana Harbor, Cuba that US citizens blamed on the Spanish?

• USS New York

• USS Maine

• USS Pennsylvania

• USS Washington

Which Spanish territory did the US purchase from Spain who then fought for independence from the United States and lost?

• Puerto Rico

• Guam

• Cuba

• Philippines

These four Spanish colonies were lost in the Spanish-American war.

• Guam

• Became an independent US protectorate. The Platt Amendment allowed US military intervention.

• Puerto Rico

• Purchased from Spain and fought the US for independence.

• Cuba

• Colony in Pacific that became a US territory.

• Philippines

• Colony in Caribbean that became a US territory.

Match the following MAIN causes of WWI.

• Alliance System

• I

• Militarism

• M

• Imperialism

• A

• Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

• N

• Nationalism

• the "spark"

Match the following cause for US entry into WWI.

• Russian Revolution

• A new democratic

  government emerges in

  Russia giving the allies

  new cause to continue

  fighting.

• Zimmermann Telegram

• If Germany won the war

  it would eliminate the

  balance of power in

  Europe and threaten the

  existing nations in the

  Western Hemisphere.

• Germany’s Submarine

  Policy

• Germany plotting an

  alliance with Mexico

  against the United

  States.

• Balance of Power

  (Monroe Doctrine)

• Increased destruction of

  American vessels that

  transported supplies

  and passengers to

  Europe allies.

Who was President during WWI?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Warren Harding