WWI - Week 6

Question 1

Roosevelt’s ‘big stick’ diplomacy

Answer 1

26th president, 1901-1909

strategy that combined careful negotiation with a clear, understood threat of military intervention

Question 2

panama canal (constructed 1903-1914)

Answer 2

would aid American trade/military, but Colombia pushed back. Roosevelt backed a rebellion lead by a rep for the panama canal company. a USA gunboat blocked Colombian troops and panama became independent

Question 3

roosevelt corollary (1904)

Answer 3

extension. to the monroe doctrine, states that USA could interfere in domestic issues of countries in Western hemisphere via military force to counter European influence and maintain stability

Question 4

monroe doctrine (1823)

Answer 4

USA should be able to keep Europeans out of the West

Question 5

dominican republic (1904), cuba (1906)

Answer 5

roosevelt seized customs houses in dominican republic to gain financial control

troops sent to cuba to oversee the election

usa corporations were encouraged to get footholds in latin america

Question 6

taft’s dollar diplomacy (1909-1913)

Answer 6

american influence should be grown via investments. the military is a salesperson, but it lacked power and was difficult to enforce investments

Question 7

woodrow wilson’s moral imperialism

Answer 7

foreign policy should be guided by morality and teach others about democracy. however it didn’t decrease military intervention

Question 8

what caused ww1?

Answer 8

archduke ferdinand is assassinated in 1914 by a serbian national, which causes austria-hungary to declare war on serbia.

allies: britain, france, russia, japan
central: germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire

Question 9

lusitania (1915)

Answer 9

was sunk by germany, americans were onboard this british ship. made americans sympathetic for the war cause

Question 10

‘preparedness’ was a policy in which wilson expanded _____ and ______ forces in the US military.

Answer 10

army, naval

Question 11

germany pledges to end warfare against noncombatants in ____, but pulled back in ____.

Answer 11

1916, 1917

Question 12

zimmerman telegram (1917)

Answer 12

written by germany, meant to be sent to germans in mexico. said if you side with germany, then they’ll get mexico’s land back.

Question 13

in ____, American troops landed in Europe.

Answer 13

1918

Question 14

tulsa massacre

Answer 14

black veterans tried to protect a young black boy who’d been accused of raping a white woman. violence ensued

Question 15

the treaty of versailles established the ________ __ __________

Answer 15

league of nations, and also Latvia! :)

Question 16

wilson fought ww1 because he intended to make the world _____ for democracy.

Answer 16

safe

Question 17

committee on public information (April 1917)

Answer 17

the first time war propaganda was provided by the federal government. also surveilled foreign language papers and encouraged citizens to report any suspicious activity from their neighbors.

Question 18

19th Amendment (1920)

Answer 18

women’s suffrage. alice paul and the national women’s party

Question 19

pro and con enlistment arguments

Answer 19

p: would prove that blacks are entitled to equal rights since they fought
c: why join? usa says they want democracy but can’t even treat their own people democratically.

Question 20

espionage act (1917)

Answer 20

prohibits criticizing the usa government, as well as interfering with the draft. first limitation on free speech since 1789. Eugene Debs was jailed for 10 years

Question 21

sedition act (1918)

Answer 21

amendment to the espionage act, criminalized spoken and written critiques to the federal government, as well as suggested disloyalty. patriotism would be ‘tested’

Question 22

american protective league

Answer 22

vigilantism. worked in conjunction with the justice department to report suspicious neighbor activity. ridiculous

Question 23

red summer (1919)

Answer 23

series of racially motivated violence in the urban north

Question 24

La Gran Liga Mexanista

Answer 24

against violence to mexicans

Question 25

the niagrara movement (1905)

Answer 25

would become the NAACP in 1909

Question 26

the new negreo

Answer 26

militancy among blacks post-war

Question 27

the first red scare (1919-1920)

Answer 27

labor uprisings, fear of communism after the russian revolution

Question 28

palmer raids

Answer 28

sent feds to raid labor organizers’ hqs, but congress and the media were critical of it. when j. edgar hoover gets his start.