Chapter 24 - A Nation at War Flashcards
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901
US to conduct and control the Isthmian canal as long as it was open to ships of all nations.
Negotiated with Britain
Hay-Herran Convention
ave the US a 99-year lease, with option for renewal, on the Canal zone 6 miles in width (paid a one-time fee of $10 million in annual rental fee of 250,000)
Nashville
the ship sent to Panama to help the rebelion
Hay-Buena-Vanilla Treaty
the canal = 10 miles wide across the Isthmus of Panama in exchange for Panamanian independence + fees of the Hay-Herran Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
More Latin American nations to keep their affairs in order or face American intervention
Lodge Corollary
warned foreign corps not to purchase harbors and other sites of military significance in Latin America
Taft-Katsura Agreement
recognize Japan’s dominance over Korea in return for its promise not to invade the Philippines
Gentleman’s Agreement
stopped the flow of Japanese agricultural laborers into US
Root-Takahira Agreement
maintained the status quo in the Pacific, upheld the open door, and supported Chinese independence
21 Demands
Japan issued
insisting on authority over China and also eyed US colonies in the pacific
“dollar diplomacy”
Taft
promoted American financial and business interests abroad
Philander C. Knox
Taft’s Secretary of State
“cooling-off” treaties
provided for submitting all international disputes to permanent commissions of investigation and no war could be declared until the commission was done
Porfirio Diaz
Mexican president for 37 years was overthrown in 1911.
encouraged foreign investments Mexican minds railroads oil and land.
General Victoriano Huerta
ousted Diaz’s successor with the backing of the Catholic Church and the wealthy landowners
Venustiano Carranza
replaced Huerta
attacked Americans stationed in Mexico
John J. Pershing
Went after Carranza, but never found him
Archduke Frans Ferdinand
assassinated by a man of the Black Hand (Serbia) in Sarajevo
Started WWI
Progressive’s view of the war
Don’t get involved
German Literary Defense Committee
propaganda of Germany
stressed strength and will
Unterseeboot
German submarines
Lusitania and the Arabic
the ships that the U-boats sank and brought the US closer to war
Arabic pledge
Germans would alert passenger vessels and let them evacuate before blowing them up
Sussex pledge
promised to shoot on sight only ships of the enemies navy with the condition that the US compel the allies and their blockade and comply with international law
