Growing World Power – America Becomes a World Power

Question 1

Causes of Spanish-American War

Answer 1

– Cuban Revolution and

the sinking of USS Maine

Question 2

Effects of Spanish-American War

Answer 2

– Helped establish America

as a world imperial power

Question 3

Reasons for Expansionism

Answer 3

– Gain in access to natural

resources and oversea markets, expansion in trade

Question 4

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 4

Advocated for overseas expansion by

growing the U.S. Navy

Question 5

Hawaii

Answer 5

Forced annexation by the U.S., supported by S.B. Dole

Question 6

Puerto Rico

Answer 6

Gained by U.S. after the Spanish-American War

Question 7

Panama Canal

Answer 7

– U.S. saw need for canal during Spanish-
American War, obtained land by Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy,
more efficient travel time for navy and businesses

Question 8

Causes of WWI

Answer 8

– rise of militarism, assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Question 9

Trench Warfare

Answer 9

– Soldiers fought from trenches with
machine guns resulting in a stalemate, tanks and poison gas
were used to try and break stalemate

Question 10

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 10

Germany tried to ally with Mexico,

resulted in U.S. withdrawing position of neutrality

Question 11

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Answer 11

Germans attacked U.S.

merchant ships, resulted in U.S. declaring war on Germany

Question 12

American Expeditionary Force

Answer 12

– (AEF) Soldiers well trained by

John J. Pershing, led major counterattack on western front

Question 13

Espionage Act

Answer 13

– Limited American’s freedom of speech

Question 14

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Answer 14

League of Nations (rejected by US

Congress), freedom of the seas, Poland as an independent nation