Unit 9 Foreign Policy and WWI

An extension of the Monroe Doctrine, under which the US claimed the right to protects its economic interest by means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations.

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Imperialism

• Open Door Policy

An artificial waterway cut through the Isthmus of Panama to provide a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

• Suez Canal

• Panama Canal

• Erie Canal

• Straight of Magellan

The policy of extending a nations authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means.

• Nationalism

• Militarism

• Imperialism

• Alliances

A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.

• Titantic

• SS Minnow

• USS Maine

• Lusitania

A message sent by Germany to Mexico proposing a German Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if US entered the war.

• Brown Note

• Jordan Note

• Zimmerman Note

• Wilson Note

The large scale movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities in the early 1900's.

• The Awesome Migration

• The Great Migration

• Middle Migration

• The Okay Migration

A law that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in World War I.

• Espionage Act

• Homestead Act

• Equal Rights Act

• Federal Securities Act

An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States and outspoken critic of WWI.

• Eugene Debs

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Grover Cleveland

The principles making up President Wilson's plan for world peace following World War I.

• Fourteen Points

• Twenty Points

• League of Nations

• Ten Points

An association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.

• United Nations

• World Health Organization

• League of Nations

• League of Their Own