American Imperialism to WW1

The U.S. policy of using the nation’s economic power to exert influence over other countries. 

• Missionary Diplomacy

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of trench warfare?

• heavy artillery bombardments

• attacks and counterattacks across open land

• short battles with relatively few deaths

• use of poison gases on enemy troops

U.S. Warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba on February 15, 1898.

• RMS Titanic

• Lusitania

• USS Maine

• USS Arizona

a kind of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions.

• Propaganda

• Armistice

• Reparations

• Treaty

commanded Cuba to stay out of debt and gave the U.S. the right to intervene in the country and the right to buy or lease Cuban land for naval and fueling stations.

• Treaty of Versailles

• Espionage & Sedition Acts

• League of

  Nations

• Platt 

  Amendment

Which of the following was not a cause of World War I?

• American Isolationism

• imperialist competition

• the stockpiling of weapons

• European nationalism

the use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract readers.

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

• Yellow Journalism

• Trench Warfare

the narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War.

• Seward’s 

  Folly

• No Man’s Land

• Panama 

  Canal

• Roosevelt

   Corollary

the group of nations–led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire–that opposed the Allies in WWI.

• Allied 

  Powers

• Central 

  Powers

military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield.

• Boxer Rebellion

• Trench Warfare

• Selective Service Act

• Roosevelt

   Corollary