WWI Vocab

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_________________: modern form of colonialism, more powerful country taking over another

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Imperialism

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________________________: policy stated in a series of messages sent by Secretary of State John Hay to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan asking the countries not interfere with US trading rights in China

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Open door policy

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_______________________:  President Taft’s policy of using the US economic power to exert influence over other countries

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Dollar diplomacy

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______________________: order to all eastern nations to not cross into the western hemisphere with aggressive intent or the US would retaliate.

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Monroe Doctrine

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_____________: WWI alliance that included Great Britain, France, Russia, and later Italy and the US

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Allied Powers

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_______________:  WWI alliance that included Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungarian Empire

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Central Powers

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_____________: US policy of non-commitment during the first three years of WWI

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Neutrality

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_______________:  Germany’s policy to stop merchant ships traveling to enemy ports during WWI

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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____________________________: a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the US entered WWI

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Zimmerman telegram