Unit 7 Significant Slideshow Items Flashcards
What resolved some tensions between US and Japan?
Gentlemen’s Agreement
What was Roosevelts foreign policy?
Big stick diplomacy
What was Tafts foreign policy?
Dollar diplomacy
What did the jones act do?
Gave Philippines full territorial status, bill of rights, male suffrage, ect.
Who helped resolve the Tampico Incident?
ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile)
What did the US do in response to European intervention in the Americas?
Added Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
What won Teddy Roosevelt the Nobel Peace prize?
Treaty of Portsmouth
What policy did John Hay draft to promote free trade?
Open door
What was the Great White fleet?
Convoy of US warships to demonstrate Americas growth
Revolutionary who challenged new government in Mexico?
Poncho Villa
War fought by Russia and Japan in early 1900s?
Russo Japanese war
War fought between China and Japan
Sino-Japanese war, showed China’s vulnerability
The outbreak of war was sparked by the death of?
Archduke Ferdinand
Causes of US involvement
Sinking of Lusitania, Arabic and Sussex
Selective service act
Males must register for draft at age 18
Sussex pledge
No more sub sinking without warning
Zimmerman Telegram
Direct threat to US
Prevented use of mail system to intervene with war effort
Espionage act
Made it illegal to speak out against any aspects of US gov
Sedition act
Supreme Court upheld Espionage act in which court case?
Schneck v US
Justin Oliver Holmes said what could suspend liberties
Clear and present danger
Wilson announced what for peace
Fourteen points
US’s reaction to the League of Nations
Cause much controversy
Palmer raids
Illegal raids on immigrants
Three presidents
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Kellogg Briand pact
Prohibited war
Warren g Harding was elected in 1920 with what promise?
Normalcy
Washington disarming conference
Arms reduction and territorial respect