Standard 5 - Vocab Terms

Question 1

Belief that rich people (like America) are better than those who aren’t (like people in developing countries)

Answer 1

Social Darwinism

Question 2

War between Spain & the US that was fought to free Cuba AND add new territories to the US for economic reasons

Answer 2

Spanish-American War

Question 3

New American Territories after Spanish-American War

Answer 3

Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Wake Island, Cuba

Question 4

Believed that a strong navy would give a country more power in the world

Answer 4

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Question 5

President who practiced “Big Stick Diplomacy” by collecting taxes from Central America to repay Europe

Answer 5

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 6

President during WWI - kept us out of war for 4 years, but then decided to go to war to “make the world safe for democracy”

Answer 6

Woodrow Wilson

Question 7

President who practiced “Dollar Diplomacy”

Answer 7

William Howard Taft

Question 8

Engaging in peaceful negotiations but letting your opponent know you’re backed by a strong military - Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 8

Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 9

Taft’s plan to encourage American businessmen to invest in Latin America - these investments were backed by the US military

Answer 9

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 10

Wilson’s plan to teach the Mexicans to “elect good men”… who supported the United States

Answer 10

Moral Diplomacy

Question 11

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand are all causes of…

Answer 11

World War I

Question 12

American ship sunk near Cuba - it was blamed on Spain by the Yellow Journalists, which led the US into the Spanish-American war

Answer 12

USS Maine

Question 13

Journalism that focuses on selling papers through catchy headlines even if the content isn’t well supported by facts

Answer 13

Yellow Journalism

Question 14

Letter from the Spanish Ambassador in the US to Spain claiming that President McKinley was weak & wouldn’t attack them - this was intercepted by Americans & published in the news

Answer 14

De Lome Letter

Question 15

Note from Germany to Mexico claiming that if Mexico attacked the US, the Germans would help them take back the land they lost in the Mexican War

Answer 15

Zimmerman Note

Question 16

British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boats. Many Americans died, which turned public opinion away from Germany & forced them to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare for years.

Answer 16

Lusitania

Question 17

Supreme Court cases stating that “the Constitution does not follow the flag” - people living in islands we claimed didn’t have the same rights as American citizens.

Answer 17

Insular Cases

Question 18

Amendment we added to Cuba’s constitution stating that the US could “supervise” them - it also gave us a military base @ Guantanamo Bay

Answer 18

Platt Amendment

Question 19

Canal the US built to shorten the route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Panama allowed us to build it after we helped them break free from Colombia.

Answer 19

Panama Canal

Question 20

Panama used to be a part of ___________ until they refused to let us build the canal. The US helped Panamanian rebels get their independence so that we could build it.

Answer 20

Colombia

Question 21

The idea that the US would need to enforce the Monroe Doctrine since we were the strongest country in the western hemisphere (Teddy Roosevelt)

Answer 21

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 22

Teddy Roosevelt’s fleet that he sent around the world to show how powerful the US was

Answer 22

Great White Fleet

Question 23

Special economic zones in China giving certain countries special trading rights. The US didn’t have one, so we suggested that they have an “Open Door Policy”

Answer 23

Spheres of Influence

Question 24

The US suggested that China allow anyone to trade there who wanted to and all would be given the same trading rights.

Answer 24

Open Door Policy

Question 25

Because many Chinese didn’t like foreigners interfering in their country, a group called the Boxers rose up and killed many westerners. The Marines led the charge to put down this Rebellion and caused many Chinese to resent us even more.

Answer 25

Boxer Rebellion

Question 26

The political position in which a country does not take sides in the conflicts of other countries. After WWI, many Americans wanted this.

Answer 26

Neutrality

Question 27

Law making it illegal for citizens to speak out against the government’s war effort during WWI.

Answer 27

Sedition Act

Question 28

Wilson’s suggestions at the Versailles Conference to end the things that led the world into WWI - this included the League of Nations

Answer 28

Fourteen Points

Question 29

Wilson’s suggested international organization that would try to solve problems between countries before they resulted in war

Answer 29

League of Nations

Question 30

Republicans in the Senate were afraid that joining the __________________ would weaken America’s sovereignty. They voted it down and the US made a separate peace treaty with Germany to end the war.

Answer 30

League of Nations

Question 31

President after Wilson - promised a “return to normalcy” after the age of “new imperialism” and WWI.

Answer 31

Warren G. Harding

Question 32

America’s policy of helping Latin America only when they needed it. (after WWI)

Answer 32

Good Neighbor Policy

Question 33

Germany’s policy of sinking any boat it thought was supplying their enemy without warning. They promised to stop this after sinking the Lusitania, but started again toward the end of the war. This was one reason the US entered the war in 1917.

Answer 33

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Question 34

Countries in the eastern hemisphere shouldn’t attempt to interfere with the affairs of the western hemisphere and vice versa

Answer 34

Monroe Doctrine

Question 35

Peace conference between the WWI’s allies to end the war.

Answer 35

Versailles Conference