Imperialism and WWI Review

Term / Definition
People
Communist group led by Vladimir Lenin that took power in Russia in 1917.
26th president of the United States (1901-1909). Issued the Roosevelt Corollary and expanded America’s influence in Latin America. Oversaw construction of the Panama Canal.
Leader of the communist Bolsheviks.
28th president of the United States (1921-1923). Led the U.S. during WWI, developed the 14 points and helped establish the League of Nations.
Events
June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. This event sparked World War I.
Hawaii was annexed in 1898 under President William McKinley making it a U.S. territory. Hawaii would go on to become our 50th state in 1959.
Alaska was purchased in 1867 from Russia by Secretary of State William Seward at a cost of $7.2 million or 2 cents an acre.
The Lusitania was a British passenger ship sunk in May, 1915 by a German U-boat. The attack killed 1,198 Americans and brought the United States one step closer to joining World War I.
February 1898-December 1898. Conflict began after U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba. Fighting took place in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Sent from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance if Mexico would attack the United States.
Terms
Alliances
Annex
Big Stick Diplomacy
Convoy System
Fourteen Points
The act of stronger nation exerting political, economic or military control over a smaller weaker one.
International peacekeeping organization created after World War I.
Temporary loans to the government during World War I.
The belief that a nation needs a large military force.
A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere.
Policy developed by Secretary of State John Hay asking the nations involved in Asia to follow a policy in which no one country controlled trade with China.
A shortcut through Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Propaganda / Anything created for the purpose of influencing others.
Reparations
Roosevelt Corollary / A 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine allowing the United States to be the “policemen” in Latin America.
Law passed that required all men ages 21 to 30 to register for the draft.
A people’s right to govern themselves.
An area where foreign nations claim special rights and economic privileges.
A situation where neither side can make progress.
Treaty that ended World War I.
A kind of warfare in World War I in which troops huddled at the bottom of trenches and fired artillery and machine guns at each other.
A type of submarine warfare in which all ships of or destined to an enemy nation are targets of war.
Created by the federal government to ensure all the necessary materials of war were being produced.
A style of journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes news.