Imperialism Test Flashcards
Alfred T Mahan
Thesis: every great nation must have a great navy to police and control trade; most imperialism is to control economy
Rudyard Kipling
White man who wrote poem about white mans Burden; for it
Mark twain
Anti imperialist; made us more like Europe
Josiah Strong
Answer to problems is the social gospel; need to imperialize because it is sanctioned by God to spread religion and good governance
Valeriano Weyler
The Butcher; he is the reinforcement Spain sends to Cuba when they think that they will win their independence movement; he brings reconcentration camps
Teddy Roosevelt
- Regularly used military abroad
- If the constitution doesn’t say it, I can do it
- Hungry for war because he wants to expand
He thinks war makes a nation
Albert Beveridge
Survival of the fittest applies to nations
Phillipe Bunau-Varilla
Approached TR and said Panama was going to revolt and said if US helps they will get the land for the Panama Canal
William Howard Taft
Created dollar diplomacy
William Jennings Bryan
Anti imperialism: the rest of the world are like we used to be economically and not unlike anyone in the US
William Randolph Hearst
Wanted to go to war so his newspaper would sell more; Jingoism
Jingoism
Extreme rivalry that gets exaggerated; pro war talk
De Lome letter
Enrique De Lome is Spanish ambassador for US; sends opinion to McKinley
-calls him and US a PUSSY
USS Maine
Exploded 2/15/1898 and no one knows why but blames it on Spain
Yellow Journalism
Newspapers were desperate to sell whatever they can so they exaggerated the truth
American Anti-imperialist league
Formed around 1899 to sway public opinion
Rough riders
Calvary division in Spanish-American war; Ivy leaguers
Emilio Aguinaldo
Rebel movement leader in the Philippines
Platt Amendment
Amendment to the Treaty of Paris; says that if US property is threatened in Cuba, then US can intervene
Teller amendment
Asked Spain to abide by a set list of rules and when they only agreed to 2 of the 3 US congress declared war
- Ceasefire
- Negotiate with Cubans
- End reconcentration
Treaty of Paris
Ends Spanish-American war;US doesn’t get Cuba because of teller amendment
Monroe doctrine
- Kicks Europe out of western Hemisphere
- Free trade
- Roosevelt corollary is added
Roosevelt corollary
Added to Monroe doctrine in 1903 officially declares us olive force of the hemisphere
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft; a system of lending that benefits America
Cesar Agusto Sandio
Leader of Nicaragua when Civil war erupts in 1926
Anastasio Somoza
In 1936, US installs him as leader for next 20 years
Isolationism
US somewhat retreats from the foreign scene (except in those places where economic interests informed policy)
Good neighbor policy
Ended the Platt amendment; created by FDR
