Imperialism and WWI Flashcards
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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- Author of Frontier Thesis
- West= Free land and shape American character
2
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Frontier Thesis
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- Frontier Experience = American Character
3
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
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- Wanted larger Navy
- Trade essential and need good navy to protect
4
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Albert Beveridge
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- Indiana Senator
- Expansionist who wanted to control the Pacific
5
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USS Maine
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- Battleship boom in Havana
→ Congress 50 mil in defense
→ Justification for Spanish-American War
6
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Jose Marti
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- Cuban Hero
- Liberated from Spain
- Gave money, arms, weapons from US
7
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Platt Amendment
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- 1901
- added to Cuba Constitution after US pressured
- US intervene in Cuba - have Gitmo - Treaties require US involvement
8
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The Open Door Policy
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- proposed by US Sec of State John Hay
- Everyone could trade with China
9
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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- Nationalist leader of the Filipino war against American occupation
10
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Benevolent Assimilation
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- Desc by Us President William McKinley
- US control until Philippines independent(Americanization)
11
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Imperialists v. Anti-imperialists
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- Imp: new markets and resources, needs to civilize and white man’s burden, geo-strategic locations.
- Anti-imps: abandon the U.S. values, being too violent + dead soldiers, too costly, can’t have the majority of whites
12
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Origins of WWI in Europe
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- Assassination of Ferdinand
- Entangled Alliances
- Colonies and competition, imperialism, and nationalism are growing and being challenged
13
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American “Neutrality”
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- Sold goods to both sides
- Avoid internal divisions that existed in the country, although ethnic Americans took sides
- Significant ties to both sides of the war
- Monroe Doctrine and the Growth of the American Isolation Movement
- Wilsonianism
14
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Lusitania
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- German U-boats took down a passenger Ship carrying ammo to Britain, and Americans passed away
- A few years later, used by Americans as a justification for the war
15
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Zimmerman Telegram
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- Telegram between Germany and Mexico
- Nothing came, but US began fearing a two front attack
