3c. Rise to Power Vocabulary mhs

Cuban Revolution and sinking of USS Maine

• Causes of World War I

• Effects of World War I

• Causes of Spanish-American War

• Effects of Spanish-American War

Helped establish America as a world imperial power.

• Causes of World War I

• Effects of World War I

• Causes of Spanish-American War

• Effects of Spanish-American War

Reasons for Expansionism

• Gain in access to natural resources and oversea markets, expansion in trade.

• the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.

• non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics.

Advocated for overseas expansion by growing the U.S. Navy

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

• William Howard Taft

Hawaii

• Gained by U.S. after the Spanish-American War

• The USA tried to intervene in affairs when Huerta overthrew Diaz and again when Carranza overthrew Huerta

• U.S. saw need for canal during Spanish-American War, obtained land by Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy, more efficient travel time for navy and businesses

• Forced annexation by the U.S., supported by Sanford B. Dole

Puerto Rico

• Forced annexation by the U.S., supported by Sanford B. Dole

• Gained by U.S. after the Spanish-American War

• The USA tried to intervene in affairs when Huerta overthrew Diaz and again when Carranza overthrew Huerta

• U.S. saw need for canal during Spanish-American War, obtained land by Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy, more efficient travel time for navy and businesses

Panama Canal

• U.S. saw need for canal during Spanish-American War, obtained land by Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy, more efficient travel time for navy and businesses

• Gained by U.S. after the Spanish-American War

• USA tried to intervene in affairs when Huerta overthrew Diaz and again when Carranza overthrew Huerta

• Forced annexation by the U.S., supported by Sanford B. Dole

rise of militarism, assassination of Franz Ferdinand

• causes for Spanish-American War

• causes of WWI

• causes of WWII

• causes for the Cold War

Soldiers fought from trenches with machine guns resulting in a stalemate, tanks and poison gas were used to try and break stalemate

• Aerial Warfare

• Tank Warfare

• Trench Warfare

• Guerrilla Warfare

Germany tried to ally with Mexico, resulted in U.S. withdrawing position of neutrality.

• Santa Claus Telegraph

• Plan De San Diego

• XYZ Telegram

• Zimmerman Telegraph