Chapter 21 Flashcards
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that
the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations to preserve stability
The United States originally planned for its inter-ocean canal to go through the country of
Nicaragua
President Teddy Roosevelt secured the Canal Zone in Panama by
engineering a Panamanian revolt against Colombia
The term “Dollar Diplomacy” refers to the
policy of using investment to further U.S. economic interests in Latin America
In Europe, World War I had all of the following consequences except
it brought fifty years of peace to the continent
Before World War I, the Triple Alliance consisted of
Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy
The immediate cause of World War I was
the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke by a Serbian nationalist
Although the United States proclaimed neutrality at the start of World War I, Americans were not completely impartial because
exaggerated reports circulated about German atrocities in Belgium
Many Americans became outraged at Germany after it began to
engage in submarine warfare
The German government believed that the sinking of the Lusitania was a legitimate act because the ship was
carrying munitions to Great Britain
In 1915, when the Germans began to use submarine warfare to “sink on sight” vessels carrying supplies to Britain, President Wilson responded by
angrily demanding that Germany promise not to attack non-military ships and reaffirm a commitment to neutral rights
In 1916, the German Navy temporarily suspended submarine warfare against U.S. ships because of
the fear that it would lead to intervention by the United States
President Wilson’s actions during the first two years of the war showed that he was
trying not to upset either the peace faction or the war faction
The presidential election of 1916 was one of the closest in American history. All of the following factors helped Wilson win re-election except
the Republican party split between pro-war Theodore Roosevelt and pacifist Charles Evans Hughes
The Zimmermann telegram stirred up anti-German sentiment in the United States because it revealed German plans to
return to Mexico her lost provinces in the American Southwest in exchange for a Mexican declaration of war on the United States
After entering World War I, the first actions of the U.S. military involved
aiding the British Navy in its efforts to end the submarine threat to Allied shipping
Although Americans believed that only naval assistance would be required of the United States, the situation changed when
Russia pulled out of the war, allowing a large number of German troops to be moved to the Western Front
The majority of the men who served in the American armed forces during World War I
were drafted
The group that was allowed to enlist in the armed forces for the first time during World War I was
women
During World War I, the status of African-Americans changed in all of the following ways except
the patriotism of wartime temporarily diminished the racism that usually afflicted them
The combat role of American troops in World War I
involved over six months of hard fighting to stop the final German offensives of the war
In the last months of World War I, the Allies launched a 200-mile attack against the Germans in the Battle of
the Argonne Forest
