Unit 6: A New Role in the World
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1.
alliances
5.
conscription
An agreement between nations to aid and protect
each other.
2.
Allies
A military draft
6.
dollar
diplomacy
In World War I, the group of nations - originally
consisting of Great Britain, France, and Russia
and later joined by the United States, Italy, and
others
3.
Archduke
Franz
Ferdinand
President Taft's policy of linking American
business interests to diplomatic interests
abroad
7.
Eugene V.
Debs
Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was
assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.
4.
Central
Powers
Ran for U.S. President five times as a socialist.
The last attempt was made while he was
serving time in prison for obstructing the draft
of World War I.
In World War I the alliance of Germany, AustriaHungary, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations
allied with them in opposing the Allies
8.
expansionism
13.
Irreconcilables
14.
John Hay
Group of isolationist U.S. senators who
fought ratification of the Treaty of
Versailles, 1919-20, because of their
opposition to American membership in the
League of Nations.
A policy that calls for expanding a nation's
boundaries.
9.
Filipino
Insurrection
Secretary of State under McKinley and
Roosevelt who pioneered the Open-Door
Policy in China and American acquisition
of the Panama canal
15.
American military campaign that supressed
the filipine movement for independence after
the spanish american war
10.
11.
Fourteen
Points
John J.
Pershing
A series of proposals in which U.S. president
Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for
achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
Henry Cabot
Lodge
Commander of the US Forces during WW1
16.
Henry Cabot Lodge was a Republican who
disagreed with the Versailles Treaty, and
who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. He mostly disagreed
with the section that called for the League to
protect a member who was being threatened.
12.
imperialism
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to
dominate other countries politically, socially,
and economically.
Manifest
Destiny
19th century belief that the United States
would inevitably expand westward to the
Pacific Ocean
17.
militarism
22.
A policy of glorifying military power and
keeping a standing army always prepared for
war
18.
19.
mobilization
Open Door
Policy
A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under
which ALL nations would have equal
opportunities to trade in China.
23.
propaganda
the process of assembling troops and supplies
and making them ready for war
Monroe
Doctrine
Information that is spread for the purpose
of promoting some cause
24.
(1823) A political policy of the United States by
President James Monroe that states the
Western Hemisphere is closed to European
interference.
20.
nationalism
21.
neutrality
25.
Reservationists
Senators who pledged to vote in favor of the
Treaty of Versailles if certain changes were
made - led by Henry Cabot Lodge
Roosevelt
Corollary
A sense of unity binding the people of a state
together; devotion to the interests of a
particular country or nation, an identification
with the state and an acceptance of national
goals.
A policy of not choosing sides in a war or
dispute between other countries; policy
adopted by the US at the outbreak of WWI
1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine
used to justify U.S. intervention in the
affairs of Latin American nations if their
weakness or wrongdoing warranted such
action.
26.
Schenck v.
United States
30.
Treaty of
Versailles
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for
WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
31.
u-boats
A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of
a socialist who had urged young men to
resist the draft during World War I. Justice
Holmes declared that government can limit
speech if the speech provokes a "clear and
present danger" of substantive evils.
27.
28.
29.
selfdetermination
The ability of a government to determine
their own course of their own free will
SpanishAmerican
War
In 1898, a conflict between the United States
and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the
Cubans' fight for independence; resulted in
the acquisition of a American overseas
empire
German submarines used in World War I
32.
William
Howard
Taft
Theodore
Roosevelt
27th President; adopted dollar diplomacy
Leader of Rough Riders during the Spanish
American War; Later the 26th President who
championed the "Great White Fleet," added a
Corollary to Monroe Doctrine justifying
further intervention in Latin America, and
adopted "Big Stick" diplomacy.
33.
William
McKinley
36.
25th President; authorized the SpanishAmerican War, Philippine-American War, and
the Annexation of Hawaii; was assassinated by
an anarchist
34.
Woodrow
Wilson
28th President of the United States, known for
World War I leadership, proposing the Fourteen
Points and the League of Nations, and for
negotiating the Treaty of Versailles which the
US never ratified
35.
yellow
journalism
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or
exaggerates the news to create sensations and
attract readers
Zimmerman
note
A note intercepted by the US, originally sent
from Germany to Mexico saying that if Mexico
can keep the US out of the Great War then
Germany would help Mexico regain its
territories taken from the US like New Mexico,
Texas and Arizona.