Imperialism and WWI Test Review Flashcards

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Social Darwinsim

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The poor are poor because they are not as fit to survive. Survival of the fittest.

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A.T. Mahan’s he Influence of he Sea, Power Upon History

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Argued that control of the sea was Key to world domination. Stimulated naval race among the great powers.

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Queen Liliuokalani

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the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests

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The New Navy

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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.

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The Platt Amendment

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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.

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William Randolph Hearst

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Yellow Journalist whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism

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Joseph Pulitzer

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writer and creator of the Yellow Press. Led people to believe that the situations occurring in Cuba were worse, that they were in reality.

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Triple Entente

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linked Britain, France, and Russia.

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Triple Alliance

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united Germany, Italy, and Austro-Hungary

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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

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believed, through Darwinism that the earth only belonged to those who were most fit for it.`

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White Man’s Burden

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Poem written about how it white men felt burdened with the responsibility to “help” colored people. Basically their reason for imperialism

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The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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The immediate cause of the war

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Big Stick Diplomacy

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Policy held by President Theodore Roosevelt, Speak softy and carry a big stick

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Spheres of influence

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In international affairs, the territory where a powerful state exercises the dominant control over weaker states or territories

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Dollar Diplomacy

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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

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Open door policy

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Statement of U.S. foreign policy toward China. Issued by U.S. secretary of state John Hay (1899), the statement reaffirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade.