Imperialism and World War I

Imperialism

American Foreign Policy

Spanish-American War

World War I

WWI - The Home Front

Results of WWI

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The idea of spreading Christianity and “civilization” to other people of the world. Incorrect Correct

What is the missionary spirit? Back to Question Main Board

United States territorial gain in 1867, known as “Seward’s Icebox” Incorrect Correct

What is Alaska? Back to Question Main Board

The belief that the United States believed it was superior to other nations and believed that superior nations had to dominate inferior nations in order to survive. Incorrect Correct

What is Social Darwinism? Back to Question Main Board

The supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects. Incorrect Correct

What is the White Man’s Burden? Back to Question Main Board

Territory known for great sugar plantations that many American businessmen invested in and eventually overthrew the ruling monarchy, but was not annexed to the United States until 1898. Incorrect Correct

What is Hawaii? Back to Question Main Board

United States foreign policy that warned European nations to stay out of the western hemisphere. Incorrect Correct

What is a the Monroe Doctrine? Back to Question Main Board

United States attempt to secure equal trading rights in China. Incorrect Correct

What is the Open Door Policy? Back to Question Main Board

The belief that the Monroe Doctrine permits the United States to intervene actively in the affairs, as a world police power, of Latin American nations. Incorrect Correct

What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine? Back to Question Main Board

This foreign policy protected United States financial investments in Latin America. Incorrect Correct

What is Dollar Diplomacy? Back to Question Main Board

Refusing to support non-democratic countries, and hoping to hurt them economically and thus force them into submission. Incorrect Correct

What is Moral Diplomacy? Back to Question Main Board

Exaggerated and distorted events for emotional effects about the Cuban Revolution used by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in their newspaper articles. Incorrect Correct

What is yellow journalism? Back to Question Main Board

The USS warship that mysteriously sunk off the coast of Havana, Cuba Incorrect Correct

What is the USS Maine? Back to Question Main Board

The four territorial changes that resulted from the Spanish-American War in the Treaty of Paris (1899). Incorrect Correct

What is Puerto Rico and Guam, Cuba became independent, and the Philippines was sold to the United States for $20 Million? Back to Question Main Board

Addition to the 1900 Cuban constitution by the American government that gave the United States the right to establish naval bases in Cuba and to intervene in Cuban affairs whenever necessary. Incorrect Correct

What is the Platt Amendment? Back to Question Main Board

Spanish Foreign Minister to the United States that called President William McKinley “weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd.” Incorrect Correct

Who is Dupuy DeLome? Back to Question Main Board

British ship that sunk off the coast of Ireland causing the United States to break off its diplomatic relationship with Germany Incorrect Correct

What is the Lusitania? Back to Question Main Board

A principle that neutral nations have a right to trade with nations at war. Incorrect Correct

What is Freedom of the Seas? Back to Question Main Board

German blockade using submarines (U-Boats) to stop the trade between the Allies and the United States Incorrect Correct

What is unrestricted submarine warfare? Back to Question Main Board

Urged a German military alliance with Mexico, promising Mexico support in regaining lost territories in the Southwestern United States. Incorrect Correct

What is the Zimmerman Telegram? Back to Question Main Board

The Serbian rebel group responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Incorrect Correct

What is the “Black Hand”? Back to Question Main Board

The United States passed the Selective Service Act in May 1917 for this purpose. Incorrect Correct

What is to establish a draft? Back to Question Main Board

Mass movement of two million African-Americans to northern industrial cities Incorrect Correct

What is the Great Migration? Back to Question Main Board

Supreme Court case that upheld the federal governments right to restrict freedoms during times of war. Incorrect Correct

What is Schenck vs. United States? Back to Question Main Board

This law made it illegal to obstruct the sale of liberty bonds, or discuss anything “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive” about the American form of government, the Constitution, the armies or navies. Incorrect Correct

What is the Sedition Act of 1918? Back to Question Main Board

Gave President Woodrow Wilson increased control over the economy during World War I Incorrect Correct

What is the Council of National Defense? Back to Question Main Board

An international organization that would correct any problems caused by peace treaties. Incorrect Correct

What is the League of Nations? Back to Question Main Board

Woodrow Wilson’s plan for the post World War I world, given in a speech on January 8, 1918 to Congress. Incorrect Correct

What are the Fourteen Points? Back to Question Main Board

Section of the Treaty of Versailles that forced Germany to accept responsibility for causing World War I Incorrect Correct

What is the War Guilt Clause? Back to Question Main Board

The Senate Majority leader that disagreed with Wilson’s handling of peace talks in Paris and persuaded the Senate not to ratify the treaty. Incorrect Correct

Who is Henry Cabot Lodge? Back to Question Main Board

The idea of letting various national or ethnic groups make their own political decisions. Incorrect Correct

What is self-determination? Back to Question Main Board

WWI - Homefront

Final Jeopardy! The name of the committee created by the national government to conduct a propaganda campaign to gain support for WWI

What is the Committee of Public Information? Final Jeopardy! What is the Committee of Public Information?