Unfair Midterm Flashcards
Foreign policy
How you handle affairs with other nations
Isolationism
Isolating yourself from the rest of the world
Internationalism
Working to make alliances, working together for the common good
Imperialism
Spreading your authorizes rule to other countries
Cultural imperialism
One countries culture impacts others cultures
Colonial imperialism
Taking others land by force
Imperialism
One country controls key aspects of another country’s economy
Political Imperialism
One country’s influenced another’s government
Monroe Dovterine
Made in 1823 by James Monroe
Warned European nations to not get involved with political matters in south and Central America and the USA would intervene
Alfred Mohn
Believed in a stronger navy, influenced a bigger navy
Usa buy Alaska from who
Russia
2cents an acre
Queen Lili
Last queen/monarch of Hawaii
Big stick diplomacy
Speak softly but use force when nessicary
Used the big stick diplomacy
TR
Great White fleet
A group of warships that sail around the globe to intimidate other nations
Platt Amendment
Between cuba and usa
Cuba not enter alliances without usa approval among others
Emilio Aguinaldo
Fights with us agains Spain but fights against us with Phillipines
Dewey
General immediately move by TR from china to Philippines
McKinley’s death
Shot in buffalo by an anarchistic
The splendid little war
Spanish American war
Rough riders
A group of athletes and cowboys that fought in the Spanish American war instrumental at San Juan hill. Led by TR
Valeriano (“Butcher”) Weyler
Spanish general that would round up Cubans and put them in concentration camps
McKinley’s presidential promises
1 protect American businesses
2 free the Cubans
The Maine
A USA ship that exploited in cuba, USA blames Spain and they go to war, over 250 deaths
Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst
Yellow journalist
Yellow journalism
Journaling with some truth but mainly exaggerated
De Lôme Letter
Spanish ambassador to USA talks trash about McKinley
San Juan hill
Key battle in cuba
Buffalo Soldiers
All black regimen that where instrumental in cuba
American Anti-Imperialist League
1899
Oppose US expansion included Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain and others
