Vocab Quiz 6 - Review Questions for Brainscape (From Std 5)

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 3

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 3

Boxer Rebellion

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Columbia & Panama

Question 5

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 5

De Lome Letter

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Fourteen Points

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Good Neighbor Policy

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Great White Fleet

Question 10

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 10

Insular Cases

Question 11

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

Answer 11

League of Nations

Question 12

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 12

Lusitania

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Monroe Doctrine

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Moral Diplomacy

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Neutrality

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Open Door Policy

Question 17

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 17

Panama Canal

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

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 19

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Social Darwinism

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Spanish-American War

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 23

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 23

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Question 24

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

Answer 24

USS Maine

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Versailles Conference

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Warrn G. Harding

Question 27

President who practiced “Dollar Diplomacy”

Answer 27

William Howard Taft

Question 28

President during WWI - wanted to go to war to “make the world safe for democracy”

Answer 28

Woodrow Wilson

Question 29

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

Answer 29

WWI Sedition Act

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Yellow Journalism

Question 31

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 31

Zimmerman Note