unit 4

Question 1

mediation

Answer 1

negotiations handled by a 3rd party

Question 2

sanctions

Answer 2

restrictions posed on a country for some political reason. usually to get a country to change a policy.

Question 3

embargo

Answer 3

government order to stop trade with another country.

Question 4

foreign policy

Answer 4

a gov.’s strategy in dealing w/ other nations.

Question 5

who was involved in spanish american war?

Answer 5

spain vs. america

Question 6

where was spanish american war?

Answer 6

the phillipines + cuba (spanish territories)

Question 7

significance of SA war?

Answer 7

introduced US as a world power.

Question 8

causes of SA war

Answer 8

1. spain’s reconcentration plan - forced civillians into camps w/ horrible conditions.
2. american econ interest - cuban sugarcane plantations.
3. yellow journalism - clickbait/exaggerated news stories.
4. explosion of USS maine - ship exploded in havana harbor.

Question 9

white man’s burden

Answer 9

article by rudyard kipling that said it was the white man’s struggle to “civilize” others.

Question 10

who did US get from SA war?

Answer 10

Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

Question 11

phillipine american war

Answer 11

armed conflict between the Philippines and the United States

Question 12

rough riders

Answer 12

volunteer cavalry unit led by roosevelt that battled in SA war. brought their own photographer.

Question 13

roosevelt corollary

Answer 13

declaration by Roosevelt stating that, in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, United States could intervene in that country’s internal affairs.

Question 14

monroe doctrine

Answer 14

warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.

Question 15

causes of ww1 (MAIN)

Answer 15

Militarism
Alliance system
Imperialism
Nationalism

Question 16

spark event of ww1

Answer 16

assassination of archduke franz ferdinand.

Question 17

who were the allies?

Answer 17

britain, france, russia, italy.

Question 18

who were the central powers?

Answer 18

germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire.

Question 19

propaganda

Answer 19

information designed to get people’s thinking aligned with government interests concerning the war.

Question 20

treaty of versailles

Answer 20

formally ended ww1 and sought to set up league of nations.

Question 21

war guilt clause

Answer 21

blamed ww1 on germany and punished them for it.

Question 22

eugenics

Answer 22

the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding” to perfect humans and eliminate “social ills.”

Question 23

reparations

Answer 23

the things germany had to pay back/do for ww1.

Question 24

British blockade of German ports

Answer 24

cut off german supplies of food, fuel, etc. during ww1.

Question 25

lusitania

Answer 25

american trade ship that was shot down by german U-boats.

Question 26

zimmerman note

Answer 26

letter from germany to mexico trying toger mexico to ally with them and give US a two front war. intercepted by US & triggered their involvement.

Question 27

liberty/victory bonds

Answer 27

Americans loaned government money to help pay for costs of wartime military operations

Question 28

women in ww1

Answer 28

women got more jobs and responsibilities because men are at war.

Question 29

african americans inww1

Answer 29

african americans got opportunity to be in war and become heroes.

Question 30

great migration

Answer 30

when many african americans moved north away from racial prosecution & segregation.

Question 31

mexican americans in ww1

Answer 31

rough riders.

Question 32

committee of public opinion

Answer 32

worked to turn every channel of communication and education to promote the war effort.

Question 33

espionage act

Answer 33

prohibited spying in ww1.

Question 34

sedition act

Answer 34

prohibited speaking out against US gov/military.

Question 35

draft

Answer 35

bringing people into war without having signed up.

Question 36

selective service system

Answer 36

authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription - required some ppl to sign up for war.

Question 37

trench warfare

Answer 37

brutal dirty warfare in trenches.

Question 38

new tech in ww1

Answer 38

tanks, planes, grenades + shrapnel, machine guns, poison gas, sanitary napkins.

Question 39

lost batallion

Answer 39

group of U.S. Army units of the 77th Division that fought together in France during World War I

Question 40

battle of the argonne forest

Answer 40

one of the attacks that brought an end to the War. biggest battle in ww1 (most people).

Question 41

woodrow wilson's 14 points

Answer 41

guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world.

Question 42

Economic conditions after the war

Answer 42

bad

Question 43

red scare

Answer 43

United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology

Question 44

19th amendment

Answer 44

granted women the right to vote.