| A | B |
|---|
| Platt Amendment | affected Cuba & US - US gets 2 naval bases in Cuba & US has final say on Cuba's relations with other nations/countries |
| refueling & repair stations | places where ships could dock to restock & replenish (get supplies/food) |
| Righteous & Harmonious Fists | Chinese students who led the Boxer Rebellion - felt bullets couldn't kill them |
| Roosevelt Corollary | said the US will intervene/get involved to protect its interests |
| Russian Revolution | Civil War in Russia in 1917 |
| Russo-Japanese War | occurs at beginning of 1900s - Japanese imperialism/but US steps in & acts as peacemaker |
| San Juan Hill | a place in Cuba that Teddy Roosevelt & his Roughriders fought & won against Spanish |
| Sarajevo | site of the beginning of World War I & 1990s Balkan Wars |
| Schenk v. U.S. (1919) | Supreme Court case - says during war US govt. can suspend 1st Amendment Rights of US citizens |
| Selective Service Act | modern-day draft - at Age 18 - every American male must still sign up for it |
| Serbia | a place on Balkan Peninsula in SE Europe - Serbia was attacked by Austria to start WWI |
| Seward's Folly | Alaska in the early 1900s - people thought it was just an iceberg - didn't know about its beauty or natural resources |
| "Sick Man of Europe" | the Ottoman Empire around 1900 - very weak because of the many different ethnic groups |
| Social Darwinism | survival of the fittest - also racist to a degree |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 (1900) - US vs Spain - but fought over Cuba (Remember the USS Maine) & Philippines - US also got Puerto Rico |
| Speak softly & carry a big stick | President Teddy Roosevelt's slogan - US militarism (use of military) |
| spheres of influence | China was carved into economic zones in the late 1800s |
| stewardship | US President Teddy Roosevelt used it to mean taking care of the US people - US President looks out for them - to "serve" them |
| Sussex Pledge | Germans are to warn a ship before it attacks them during WWI - this didn't last long |
| Teller Amendment | stated US would not annex (take over) Cuba & thus would not turn it into another State |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese Feudalism - 1600 - 1850 - also meant Japan isolated itself |
| Treaty of Nanjing | ended the Opium War between Britain & China - Britain gets Hong Kong & China is divided into speheres of influence |
| Treaty of Versailles (Versailles Treaty) | settled World War I - Germany got screwed (really put down/forced to pay more $ than it could ever pay - this thing actually laid the ground work for World War II |
| trench warfare | occurred in World War I - ditches dug across eastern France - led to a stalemate - no action |
| Triple Alliance | World War I - Germany, Austria-Hungary & Ottoman Empire - also later called the Central Powers |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain, France & Russia in World War I - also called the Allies |
| United Nations | a world organization that promotes "peace" - came after the League of Nations |
| Washington Naval Disarmament Conference | occurred after World War I - (1920s) - put a limit on battleship construction among major countries of the world - few nations followed it |
| World War I | it occurred from 1914 - 1918 |
| Zimmerman Note/Telegram | this piece of communication was intercepted by the US - said Mexico was going to take over Texas with Germany's help - this thing supposedly got the US to enter into WWI |
| First World War | another term for World War I |
