Chapter 20, 22, 25- Semester Final

Question 0

Mass media

Answer 0

Newspapers, magazines, and other methods of communication to a mass audience

Question 1

Yellow journalism

Answer 1

The exaggerated style of newspaper reporting during the late 1800’s

Question 2

USS Maine

Answer 2

A battleship that mysteriously sunk in Havana Harbor, sparking American resentment toward Spain

Question 3

Armistice

Answer 3

A cessation of hostilities (to stop fighting)

Question 4

Resolution

Answer 4

A formal statement by a government about a course of action

Question 5

Rough Riders

Answer 5

A volunteer cavalry regiment recruited by Teddy Roosevelt to fight in Cuba in the Spanish-American War- made up of cowboys and college athletes

Question 6

San Juan Hill

Answer 6

The key battle in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders were given credit for the victory

Question 7

Protocol

Answer 7

A first draft of a treaty to be submitted for ratification

Question 8

Anti-Imperialist League

Answer 8

An organization formed during the Spanish-American War to oppose the establishment if U.S. colonies

Question 9

Platt Amendment

Answer 9

Provisions in the Cuban Constitution added as a condition for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1902, allowing the USA to intervene in Cuban affairs and to buy or lease land for naval bases

Question 10

Yellow Kid

Answer 10

Popular cartoon in the New York Journal and World-exaggerated stories

Question 11

The Journal

Answer 11

New York paper published by William Randolph Hearst, first had yellow kid-rival to “The World”

Question 12

The World

Answer 12

New York paper published by Joseph Pulitzer, rival to “The Journal”-copied the yellow kid

Question 13

Treaty of Paris

Answer 13

Ended war-Spanish agreed to…

1. Independence to Cuba
2. Ceded Puerto Rico and the Pacific island of Guam to the U.S.
3. Ceded Philippines to U.S. for $20 million

Question 14

Jose Marti

Answer 14

A Cuban poet and journalist who was exiled because of his revolutionary ideas. Was killed in combat-considered revolutionist and a political martyr

Question 15

General Valeriano Weyler

Answer 15

Forced thousands of Cubans into reconcentration camps-mean and ruthless Spanish general

Question 16

Enrique Dupley de Lome

Answer 16

Spanish Ambassador that sent a letter to President McKinley saying he is weak

Question 17

Grover Cleveland

Answer 17

President who followed strict neutrality

Question 18

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 18

Wealthy American, owner of “New York Journal”-encouraged his reporters to use “yellow journalism”

Question 19

William McKinley

Answer 19

President at the time of the Spanish-American War-called “weak” in De Lome letter

Question 20

Reasons for going to war with Spain

Answer 20

Yellow journalism, sugar investments in Cuba, the de Lome letter, the sinking of the USS Maine, and Spain’s refusal to give Cuba independence were some…

Question 21

Sugar War

Answer 21

Another name for the war used because many American investors had invested in sugar in Cuba and was one of the caused to go to war

Question 22

Most American deaths were caused by…

Answer 22

Malaria and yellow fever

Question 23

How long was the Spanish-American War?

Answer 23

Four months

Question 24

Spanish-American War did what to our foreign policy?

Answer 24

It was the first time we got involved in foreign affairs and set the stage for getting involved in future foreign affairs

Question 25

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 25

Lead "reservationists" against signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 26

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 26

Archduke of Austria-Hungry who was murdered to spark WWI

Question 27

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 27

American President who came up with the Fourteen Points and started the League of Nations

Question 28

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Answer 28

Attack anything that's floating, even if it is not a war ship. Germans did this, one of the reasons the US joined the war

Question 29

Propaganda

Answer 29

Info or rumors spread to promote a set of ideas

Question 30

Central Powers

Answer 30

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Question 31

Allied Powers

Answer 31

Great Britain, France, Russia, and later the US

Question 32

Gavrilo Princip

Answer 32

Assassinated Franz Ferdinand

Question 33

What were the MAIN causes of WWI?

Answer 33

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Question 34

Stalemate

Answer 34

The act of being in a deadlock or to have no advantage-no one is winning

Question 35

U-boat

Answer 35

German submarine

Question 36

RMS Lusitania

Answer 36

Unarmed British passenger ship that was sunk by German u-boat and caused USA to join war

Question 37

Sussex Pledge

Answer 37

German promise during WWI to give warnings ahead if time about submarine attacks and spare lives and crew

Question 38

Preparedness Movement

Answer 38

Led by President Teddy Roosevelt calling for the US government to train and be ready for war

Question 39

Zimmerman Note

Answer 39

Telegram from Germany foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman to Mexico-said to attack USA to keep us out of the war and when Germany won the war in Europe, they would come help defeat us (angered Americans)

Question 40

Arthur Zimmerman

Answer 40

Foreign minister of Germany who sent the Zimmerman Note

Question 41

Neutrality

Answer 41

Not taking either side of a conflict

Question 42

Fourteen Points

Answer 42

Wilson's "blueprint for peace"

Question 43

Weapons of WWI...

Answer 43

Trench warfare, tanks, long range artillery, planes, automatic weapons-machine guns *due to these weapons WWI had most deaths and casualties of it's time

Question 44

League of Nations

Answer 44

World wide organization created after WWI to achieve peace and security

Question 45

Big Four

Answer 45

Leaders of the largest Allied nations which were the USA, Great Britain, France, and Italy

Question 46

Reservationists

Answer 46

Republican senators who said "maybe if changes were made" to the treaty

Question 47

Irreconcilables

Answer 47

Republican senators who said "absolutely not" to the treaty

Question 48

Internationalists

Answer 48

Democratic senators that said "yes!" to the treaty

Question 49

Partisanship

Answer 49

Rivalry between political parties based on political principles

Question 50

Reparations

Answer 50

Payment demanded of the winner of the war to be payed by the loser

Question 51

Trench warfare

Answer 51

The war strategy of hiding in trenches-caused WWI to last longer

Question 52

War guilt clause

Answer 52

Clause added to the Treaty of Versailles to make Germany accept blame for starting the war and pay war damages

Question 53

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 53

Peace treaty ending WWI and blaming Germany

Question 54

Imperialism

Answer 54

Empire building-expanding your boundaries worldwide

Question 55

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 55

US president who was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Spanish-American War and helped from the Rough Riders-started "preparedness movement"