Chapter 6

Question 1

Belief that a nation needs to acquire overseas colonies and territories

Answer 1

Imperialism

Question 2

Degree to which a country is safe from outside threats

Answer 2

National Security

Question 3

Pride in one’s country

Answer 3

Nationalism

Question 4

Famous poem written by British author, Rudyard Kipling, which many took to be endorsement of white imperialism and US expansion

Answer 4

The White Mans Burden

Question 5

The ideology that it is not in the best interest of the United States to acquire and exercise control over foreign territories

Answer 5

Isolationism

Question 6

Term used by critics to describe Secretary of State Seward’s negotiation of the US purchase of Alaska. The purchase was made both to protect access to the Pacific by getting Russians away from the North American coast to obtain a territory he saw as rich in natural resources

Answer 6

“Seward’s Folly”

Question 7

During the 1850s, business leaders in the United States began investing in sugar plantations located here. As time passed, these owners gained economic control over the islands and struggled for power with the local monarchy. In 1893, the wealthy white plantation owners rebelled and deposed the queen. After attempts to annex the islands were initially blocked in Washington, the United States finally annexed this places and made it a US territory in 1898

Answer 7

Hawaii Annexation

Question 8

Island which was still under Spanish rule in the late 1800s until reported atrocities and the explosion of USS Maine led to the Spanish-American War and eventual independence for this island

Answer 8

Cuba

Question 9

Assistant secretary of the navy who favored expansion and war with Spain. He resigned to become leader of the Rough Riders, was elected vice president after the war, and eventually became president. He advocated “big stick” diplomacy, initiated the building of the Panama Canal, and built a powerful navy

Answer 9

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

Question 10

Brief war between the US and Spain that was won by the US and resulted in the US annexation of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam, as well as the independence of Cuba

Answer 10

Spanish-American War

Question 11

Southeast Asian island territory won by the US from Spain. It was a subject of much debate and division after the Spanish- American war as many wanted to annex it, and others wanted it declared an independent nation

Answer 11

The Philippines

Question 12

Amendment attached to Congress’ 1898 war resolution with Spain which promised that the United States would allow for Cuban independence by not annexing the territory

Answer 12

Teller Amendment

Question 13

Amendment attached to the first Cuban constitution which put limits on what the Cuban government could do, gave the US two naval bases in Cuba, and allowed for US intervention in the region whenever the United States believed it was necessary

Answer 13

Platt Amendment

Question 14

Isolationist organization financed by Andrew Carnegie and joined by many who opposed annexation of foreign territories

Answer 14

Anti-Imperialist League

Question 15

Foreign policy that China was to be kept open to foreign trade and commerce

Answer 15

Open Door Policy

Question 16

Man-made waterway which allows ships to travel back and forth between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without having to go around South America. It was built by the US and completed in 1914

Answer 16

Panama Canal

Question 17

Statement which expanded upon the Monroe Doctrine and said that the US had the right to intervene in other nations’affairs within the Western Hemisphere if a nation had trouble paying its debts. Roosevelt wanted to make sure that imperialist nations did not use debt collection as an excuse to occupy territories in the Caribbean or Latin America. This doctrine came to be known as Roosevelt’s “big stick diplomacy” and it was intended to communicate that the US did not intend to be a threatening presence in the Western Hemisphere, but neither would it hesitate to forcefully protect its own interests

Answer 17

Roosevelt Corollary or Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 18

Following Roosevelt, President William Taft sought to “substitute money for bullets” and promoted a foreign policy known as “dollar diplomacy.” He believed that the US could best maintain order in nations abroad by increasing US foreign investments

Answer 18

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 19

Wilson’s foreign policy based on the idealistic view that it was the role of the US to promote democracy and moral progress in the world

Answer 19

Missionary/ Moral Diplomacy

Question 20

Worldwide conflict that began in Europe and eventually plunged much of the world into war, including the United States. It resulted in the loss of millions of European lives until an armistice was eventually signed. It ended with the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 20

Word War I

Question 21

Pride in one’s country of ethnic group; major factor contributing to WWI

Answer 21

Nationalism

Question 22

The process of building up military strength in order to exert influence or deter potential enemies; major factor contributing to WWI

Answer 22

Militarism

Question 23

Agreements between countries to come to one another’s aid if one is attacked. In 1914, major factor contributing to WWI

Answer 23

Alliances

Question 24

Nickname of German submarines that reeked havoc in the Atlantic during WWI

Answer 24

U-Boats

Question 25

Commercial liner that was sunk by German U-boats and which also secretly carried arms from the US

Answer 25

The Lusitania

Question 26

Intercepted telegram in which the German Foreign Minister told the German ambassador to Mexico to ask Mexico to attack the US if it declared war on Germany in return for Germany’s promise to help Mexico win back land the US had acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War

Answer 26

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 27

Warfare where armies entrench themselves in long ditches where soldiers take cover while they fire on the enemy

Answer 27

Trench Warfare

Question 28

Congress passed this law authorizing a draft of young men for military service

Answer 28

Selective Service Act

Question 29

Nickname given an all African American unit that served so admirably in combat that it was given France’s highest medal of bravery and distinguished service during the war

Answer 29

Harlem Hell Fighters

Question 30

Revolution that resulted in the fall of the Czar and the brief establishment of a republic before the Bolsheviks eventually came to power and established communism

Answer 30

Russian/Bolshevik Revolution

Question 31

Cease-fire agreement to stop fighting

Answer 31

Armistice

Question 32

President Wilson’s peace plan after WWI which included the League of Nations, the right of self-determination for ethnic groups within certain countries, and a reduction in armaments

Answer 32

Fourteen Points

Question 33

International body proposed by Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. Its aim was to give nations a means of settling their disputes through diplomacy rather than war

Answer 33

League of Nations

Question 34

Phrase used by President Wilson in a speech to the US Senate in which he argued that a peace imposed by a victory upon a loser would only give birth to resentment that leads to conflict. The only lasting peace, Wilson believed, would be a peace agreed upon by “equals”

Answer 34

“Peace without Victory”

Question 35

Peace treaty ending WWI which imposed harsh conditions on Germany, established League of Nations, and which the US Senate refused to ratify

Answer 35

Treaty of Versailles

Question 36

Established to regulate the nation’s economy as it sought to obtain supplies for the US military and its allies

Answer 36

War Industries Board

Question 37

Committee formed for the purpose of encouraging public support for the US war effort through various forms of propaganda

Answer 37

Committee on Public Information

Question 38

Headed by Herbert Hoover, it was established to encourage citizens to conserve food so that there would be enough to supply the armed forces

Answer 38

Food Administration

Question 39

These acts made it illegal to interfere with the draft, obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds, or make statements considered disloyal to, or critical of, the government, the Constitution, or the US military

Answer 39

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Question 40

President elected in 1920 who advocated a “return to normalcy”

Answer 40

Warren G. Harding

Question 41

Phrase describing the popular sentiment in the United States following WWI that people wanted to return to the sense of security they’d felt and the way life was before the war

Answer 41

“Return to Normalcy”