UNIT 3: Vocab

Imperialism

• The actions used by one nation to exerciser political or economic over a smaller nation.

Protectorate

• a state that is controlled and protected by another.

Anglo-Saxonism

• Anglo-Saxonism
• The idea that the English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government and were destined to dominate the planet.

Social Darwinism

• A theory that argued that as nations would compete only the strongest would survive.

Spanish American War

• 1898
• The US went to war with the Spain in the Spanish AMerican War

Yellow Journalism

• Shocking stories and outrageous illustrations based on little factual info.

Great White Fleet

• the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
• consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons.

Open Door Policy

• used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century,

Boxer Rebellion

• Secret Chinese societies began organizing to kick out foreign control

Dollar Diplomacy

• Protect American business interest in Latin America

Roosevelt Corollary

• Was an amendment to the monroe doctrine

Big Stick Diplomacy

• Keep Europe out of LAtin America

Moral Diplomacy

• is the system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.

Panama Canal

• An area of water that is dug across land.

Isolationism

• a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Propaganda

• Info. designed to influence opinion.

LuSITANIA

• as a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband, and briefly the world's largest passenger ship

Militarism

• Increase of Military, anvy weapons

Alliances

• Agreement between 2 or more countries to "back" each other.

Nationalism

• extreme devotion to ones country.
• competative nations

Zimmerman Telegraph

• internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.

War Industries Board (WIB)

• was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies.

Victory Garden

• a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.

Liberty Bonds

• war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I

Wilson’s 14 Points

• blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I

League of Nations

• intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

Great Migration

• The war stopped the flow of immigrants to the united states, which allowed African Americans wartime jobs.

Henry Cabot Lodge

• American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. he was a long-time friend and confidant of Theodore Roosevelt.

Queen Liliuokalani

• was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Alfred T. Mahan

• a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."

Joseph Pulitzer

• Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s.

William Randolph Hearst

• was an American newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism

Theodore Roosevelt

• Is elected president in 1900
• Embraced the ideas of Anglo-Saxonism.

William McKinley

• the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term

Woodrow Wilson

• served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• 1863–1914, archduke of Austria: his assassination precipitated the outbreak of World War I.

Platt Amendment

• which amended the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill. It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.

espionage & sedition acts

• The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub.L. 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses,