1. Imperialism and World War I

4. Imperialism

5. American Foreign Policy

6. Spanish-American War

7. World War I

8. WWI - The Home Front

9. Results of WWI

10. American Foreign Policy
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Final Jeopardy

11. The idea of spreading Christianity and “civilization” to other people of the world.
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12. What is the missionary spirit?
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13. United States territorial gain in 1867, known as “Seward’s Icebox”
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14. What is Alaska?
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15. 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.
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16. What is Social Darwinism?
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17. The supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects.
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18. What is the White Man’s Burden?
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19. 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.
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20. What is Hawaii?
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21. United States foreign policy that warned European nations to stay out of the western hemisphere.
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22. What is a the Monroe Doctrine?
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23. United States attempt to secure equal trading rights in China.
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24. What is the Open Door Policy?
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25. 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.
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26. What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
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27. This foreign policy protected United States financial investments in Latin America.
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28. What is Dollar Diplomacy?
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29. Refusing to support non-democratic countries, and hoping to hurt them economically and thus force them into submission.
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30. What is Moral Diplomacy?
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31. Exaggerated and distorted events for emotional effects about the Cuban Revolution used by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in their newspaper articles.
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32. What is yellow journalism?
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33. The USS warship that mysteriously sunk off the coast of Havana, Cuba
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34. What is the USS Maine?
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35. The four territorial changes that resulted from the Spanish-American War in the Treaty of Paris (1899).
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36. What is Puerto Rico and Guam, Cuba became independent, and the Philippines was sold to the United States for $20 Million?
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37. 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.
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38. What is the Platt Amendment?
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39. Spanish Foreign Minister to the United States that called President William McKinley “weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd.”
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40. Who is Dupuy DeLome?
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41. British ship that sunk off the coast of Ireland causing the United States to break off its diplomatic relationship with Germany
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42. What is the Lusitania?
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43. A principle that neutral nations have a right to trade with nations at war.
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44. What is Freedom of the Seas?
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45. German blockade using submarines (U-Boats) to stop the trade between the Allies and the United States
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46. What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
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47. Urged a German military alliance with Mexico, promising Mexico support in regaining lost territories in the Southwestern United States.
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48. What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
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49. The Serbian rebel group responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
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50. What is the “Black Hand”?
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51. The United States passed the Selective Service Act in May 1917 for this purpose.
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52. What is to establish a draft?
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53. Mass movement of two million African-Americans to northern industrial cities
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54. What is the Great Migration?
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55. Supreme Court case that upheld the federal governments right to restrict freedoms during times of war.
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56. What is Schenck vs. United States?
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57. 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.
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58. What is the Sedition Act of 1918?
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59. Gave President Woodrow Wilson increased control over the economy during World War I
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60. What is the Council of National Defense?
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61. An international organization that would correct any problems caused by peace treaties.
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62. What is the League of Nations?
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63. Woodrow Wilson’s plan for the post World War I world, given in a speech on January 8, 1918 to Congress.
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64. What are the Fourteen Points?
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65. Section of the Treaty of Versailles that forced Germany to accept responsibility for causing World War I
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66. What is the War Guilt Clause?
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67. The Senate Majority leader that disagreed with Wilson’s handling of peace talks in Paris and persuaded the Senate not to ratify the treaty.
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68. Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
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69. The idea of letting various national or ethnic groups make their own political decisions.
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70. What is self-determination?
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71. WWI - Homefront

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

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