Road To World War I

Crisis in 1902 where Germany and Britain sent ships to blockade the Venezuelan coastline because Venezuelan dictator had not repaid loans given to him. Theodore Roosevelt demanded that the United States act as a mediator to resolve the dispute.

• Venezuelan Crisis

• Red Scare

• The Great Migration

• None of these

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was a statement by the United States that it wanted to annex the majority of the Western Hemisphere. (True or False)

• True

• False

According to the Roosevelt Corollary (1904), all the United States wanted to see neighboring countries ______.

• prosperous

• orderly

• stable

• annexed

According to the Roosevelt Corollary, the United States would only interfere in the nations south of the border if.

​ ​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)  

• invited foreign aggression
• violated rights of the US
• maintain order
• discontinue commerce

Note from Germany to Mexico where Germany proposed a possible alliance and to help regain the territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.

• Treaty of Versailles

• The Blank Check

• Zimmerman Telegram

• North Asian Trust Order

The Zimmerman Telegram was intercepted and sent to the United States from who?

• France 

• Soviet Union

• Italy

• Great Britain

President of the United States (1913-1921) following Theodore Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan he ran on was

• He kept us out of war

• Let's go to war

• walk tall

• imperialism

Ultimately, ________ was the reason that the United States efforts to stay out of the war became impossible.

• Mexican Aggression

• German Aggression

• Italian Aggression

• The Lisutania

D.W. Griffith's notoriously racist film

• None of these

• Confederate States of America

• KKK

• Birth of a Nation