WorksheetsImperialism/WWI
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 20mins
The creation of ever expanding armies threatened peace in early 20th century. This is called...
Militarism
Isolationism
Alliances
Nationalism
The US chose the Triple Entente because
U-boats attacked ships containing U.S. citizens
The United States began a blockade to prevent German soldiers from receiving supplies
German armies decided to invade Switzerland
Zimmerman Telegram
Italy violated the terms of the Triple Entente and joined Germany in the war.
How did the passenger ship Lusitania encourage US to enter WWI?
The loss of civilian lives
United States signed a secret military treaty with Great Britain against Germany.
The loss of goods led American labor unions to support
United States to occupy German colonies in the Caribbean.
What was the Schlieffen plan?
Attack France through Belgium
Attack Russia through the Baltics
Attack Britain through the Black Sea
Attack Bosnia through Serbia
How did the Espionage and Sedition Acts affect citizens in the US?
It stopped all labor unions
free speech was curtailed
it encouraged firing those with German decent
writing letters to soldiers was banned
What happened to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles?
It is responsible for the war and had to pay reparations
It is not responsible for the war but still had to pay damages
It lost only its African colonies and had to pay raparations
It was split into two an East Germany and a West Germany
How did the US raise money for the war? choose two
bonds
taxes
federal reserve
borrowing from allied countries
How did Alliances cause the war?
they had made agreements to go to war if an ally did
it didnt
if nations spoke the same language they had to fight for one another
neighboring nations had to side with who they were closest to
What territories did the US get from winning the Spanish American War?
Hawaii
Panama
Philippines
Dominican Republic
Imperialist Countries looked to Africa, Asia, and Latin America for new customers, places to invest, and
workers
capital
raw materials.
ideas.
What two reasons contributed to imperialism?
a belief in god.
a spirit of cooperation
a belief in transcendentalism.
a feeling of cultural superiority.
sense of nationalism
Why did the US want Hawaii?
tourist attraction
fiftieth state
coaling station and naval base
fishing site
What event made the US declare war on Spain?
the death of José Martí.
Dewey’s attack on the Philippines.
the destruction of the USS Maine.
the de Lôme letter.
How did Hearst and Pulitzer affect the Spanish American War?
Their paper refused to use any Spanish sources.
Their paper refused to resort to yellow journalism.
Their paper competed with Joseph Pulitzer’s paper for the most accurate headlines.
Their paper created embellished reports that urged support of the Cuban revolt against Spain.
How did the Open Door Policy affect the US?
It altered the standards for immigration from Japan.
It promoted human rights protections throughout Asia.
It improved trade between the United States and China.
It partitioned parts of Asia to establish sovereign states.
Which important Naval Base in Cuba did we leased from them after the Spanish American war?
Montego Bay
Guantanamo Bay
Vermilion Bay
Jamaica
What are the 3 causes of the Spanish American War?
American Imperialism
Yellow journalism
United States wanted to test its military power
Spain had ridiculed President Roosevelt
Cuba sent a letter asking for help.
What did Teddy Roosevelt add to the Monroe Doctrine? The US needs to...
set up trading centers in Central America and South America
work with European countries to establish colonies in Africa.
exercise police power throughout the Western Hemisphere.
create spheres of influence throughout eastern Asia.
In 1893, a group of planters and businessmen, mostly United States citizens, launched a coup against the monarch of an island nation. After setting up a new government, they proposed annexation by the U.S. This plan was turned down by President Grover Cleveland at the time, but President William McKinley and the American public supported annexation by 1898. They argued that the territory was vital to the U.S. economy, that it would serve as a strategic base to better protect expanding U.S. interests in Asia, and that other nations would claim the islands if the U.S. did not.
This passage describes events that led to the U.S. acquisition of what territory?
We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free . . . . We demand the immediate cessation of the war against liberty, begun by Spain and continued by us. We urge that Congress be promptly convened to announce to the Filipinos our purpose to concede to them the independence for which they have so long fought and which of right is theirs.
—Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
This excerpt justifies the American Anti-Imperialist League’s opposition to U.S. actions in the Philippines for what reason?
In March 1901, the United States Congress approved an agreement with Cuba in which the Cuban government consented “that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.”
This passage describes what agreement approved by the United States Congress?
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule . . . for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire?
—Cecil Rhodes, British Imperialist, 1877
