Onsted Becoming a World Power Test

The US would intervene in any country’s domestic affairs who have importance to the US is known as

• Roosevelt's Corollary
• Forceful Diplomacy
• Open Door Policy

After the explosion of the battleship Maine, a U.S. naval board of inquiry blamed the sinking on

• A mine.
• Cuban patriots who were hoping to provoke U.S. intervention.
• An unfortunate accident.

President McKinley and the Republicans jumped at the chance to hold the Philippine Islands because

• It provided the United States with a major foothold in the western Pacific and access to Asian markets.
• The victory would soothe an American public angered by an unpopular war.
• The move would quiet Democratic opponents who had criticized the war effort as being unproductive.

The American victory at San Juan Hill in Cuba can be credited largely to

• Four African American U.S. regiments.
• Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, whose cavalry charge overwhelmed the Spanish defenders.
• Cuban guerrilla fighters who diverted the Spanish while the American attack was developing.

Flooding Latin American countries with the US dollar and industry was known as

• Open Door Policy
• Forceful Diplomacy
• Dollar Diplomacy

After defeating the Spanish in the Philippines, President McKinley

• Decided to annex the entire Philippines under the justification that the Filipinos were unable to govern themselves.
• Offered Filipinos independence in a few years, but they refused his terms.
• Approached Germany about a joint protectorate arrangement, but Congress voted down the treaty.

As a result of the war with Spain in 1898, the United States gained all of the following except

• Guam.
• The Philippines.
• Puerto Rico.
• Hawaii.

Theodore Roosevelt's strategic thinking about U.S. foreign policy was shaped, in part, by his

• Belief in the duty of the “civilized” countries of the world to police and subdue “backward” peoples.
• Assumption that a major war among the great powers of Europe was unthinkable.
• Sense that the United States, as the leader of the free world, must do whatever it could to promote global democracy.

The Open Door Policy called for

• An abolition of all foreign spheres of influence in China.
• A repeal of the extraterritoriality agreements with China.
• Equal access for all countries seeking to trade with China.

Theodore Roosevelt's big-stick policy was demonstrated

• Through the Rough Riders.
• With naval power.
• When he mediated the Russo-Japanese War.