Imperialism, Expansionism & World War I

Policy of stronger nations taking political, economic, or military control over weaker territories:

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Progressivism

Sensationalized and exaggerated news reporting that pushed the U.S. toward war with Spain:

• Propaganda

• Muckraking

• Isolationism

• Yellow Journalism

Treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines:

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris (1898)

• Open Door Policy

• Platt Amendment

Foreign policy statement that allowed the U.S. to intervene in Latin America for any reason extending from the Monroe Doctrine:

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Square Deal

• Moral Diplomacy

U.S. policy that called for equal trading rights in China:

• Monroe Doctrine

• Platt Amendment

• Open Door Policy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

Man-made waterway that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, finished under Roosevelt:

• Erie Canal

• Suez Canal

• Mississippi River Project

• Panama Canal

U.S. overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani led to this territory's annexation in 1898:

• Hawaii

• Philippines

• Puerto Rico

• Cuba

Long-term causes of World War I remembered by the acronym M.A.I.N.

• Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

• Isolationism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

• Dollar Diplomacy, Square Deal, Roosevelt Corollary, Imperialism

• Militarism, America, Isolationism, Neutrality

Secret German message promising Mexico U.S. land if it allied against America:

• Monroe Doctrine

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Fourteen Points

• Espionage Act

German naval policy that attacked ships without warning and brought the U.S. into WWI:

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Gunboat Diplomacy

• Submarine Act

• Gunboat Diplomacy