Unit 3 Key Terms
1. Imperialism
2. Alfred T. Mahan
3. Anglo-Saxonism
4. Open Door Policy
5. Boxer Rebellion
6. Hawaii
7. Yellow journalism
8. U.S.S. Maine
9. Rough Riders
10. Annexation of Philippines
11. Platt Amendment
12. Big Stick Diplomacy
13. Roosevelt Corollary
14. Panama Canal
15. Dollar Diplomacy
16. Moral Diplomacy
17. Unrestricted submarine warfare
18. Zimmermann Telegram
19. Russian Revolution
20. War Industries Board
21. National War Labor Board
22. Great Migration
23. Committee on Public Information
24. Espionage and Sedition Acts
25. Schenk v. United States
26. Fourteen Points
27. League of Nations
28. Treaty of Versailles
29. Red Scare
30. Palmer Raids
31. Election of 1920
1. Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy that promoted a strong global military to deter other countries from challenging American interests
2. Agreement through which the United States was allowed full trade with China despite not controlling a “sphere of influence”
3. Government agency that prevented strikes during World War I and temporarily improved working conditions and the power of unions
4. Set of islands that was annexed by the United States largely because of their location was of economic and military value
5. Biased, sensationalist, or false reporting that built American support for war against Spain
6. Cavalry unit that was made up of cowboys, miners, and law officers that fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
7. Woodrow Wilson’s place to prevent future wars and preserve lasting peace
8. An international peacekeeping organization that formed after World War I which the United States did not join
9. William Taft’s foreign policy that promoted investment and trade with other countries, not military force
10. Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the United States, enraging Americans
11. Event in which Chinese nationalists rebelled against foreign influence but were stopped by the United States and other countries
12. Agreement in which the United States restricted Cuba’s independence in order to protect American interests
13. Event that led to the creation of the first Communist country and later helped spark the Red Scare
14. Government agency that regulated factory production of war materials for World War I
15. Agreement that ended World War I but punished Germany and laid the groundwork for World War II
16. Time of tension when Americans feared the rise of communists in the United States
17. Series of actions in which government officials, sometimes violating civil liberties, arrested and/or deported people suspected of radicalism
18. His book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, said a large navy spread worldwide on bases helped a country’s power and security
19. Structure built to help the United States trade and move military forces quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
20. Event in which Warren G. Harding became president after promising a “return to normalcy”
21. The idea that a country increases power and wealth by controlling other nations
22. Event in which the United States acted as an imperial power over a large group of people, leading to a long and bloody insurrection
23. Supreme Court ruling that upheld restrictions on free speech during World War I
24. Policy that stated the United States, not Europe, would intervene in Latin America when necessary
25. The belief that white English culture, government, and religion were superior
26. Government agency that used propaganda to generate support for the war and promote nationalism
27. Laws that restricted free expression during World War I
28. Population shift of southern blacks to northern factories that occurred during World War I; contributed to race riots after the war
29. Naval ship whose destruction was blamed on Spain and led to the Spanish-American War
30. Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy that was anti-imperialist and promoted democracy in other countries
31. Action of German U-boat that sank many ships, including the Lusitania