Imperialism and WWI Test Review Flashcards
Social Darwinsim
The poor are poor because they are not as fit to survive. Survival of the fittest.
A.T. Mahan’s he Influence of he Sea, Power Upon History
Argued that control of the sea was Key to world domination. Stimulated naval race among the great powers.
Queen Liliuokalani
the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests
The New Navy
After the Russo-Japan war the relationship between japan and the United States deteriorated. To show that America wasn’t weak, Wilson sent 16 battleships to japan.
The Platt Amendment
This amendment to the new Cuban constitution authorized U.S. intervention in Cuba to protect its interests. /
Cuba pledged not to make treaties with other countries that might compromise its independence, and it granted naval bases to the United States, most notable being Guantanamo Bay.
William Randolph Hearst
Yellow Journalist whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism
Joseph Pulitzer
writer and creator of the Yellow Press. Led people to believe that the situations occurring in Cuba were worse, that they were in reality.
Triple Entente
linked Britain, France, and Russia.
Triple Alliance
united Germany, Italy, and Austro-Hungary
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
believed, through Darwinism that the earth only belonged to those who were most fit for it.`
White Man’s Burden
Poem written about how it white men felt burdened with the responsibility to “help” colored people. Basically their reason for imperialism
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The immediate cause of the war
Big Stick Diplomacy
Policy held by President Theodore Roosevelt, Speak softy and carry a big stick
Spheres of influence
In international affairs, the territory where a powerful state exercises the dominant control over weaker states or territories
Dollar Diplomacy
Term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its foreign policy through use of economic power by guaranteeing loans to foreign countries