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| 1. What is the range of foreign policy positions taken by the U.S. throughout our history called? | The Foreign Policy Spectrum |
| 2. What foreign policy is the strict non- involvement in the affairs of other nations? (Both terms) | Isolationism (Loner) |
| 3. What foreign policy is working with other countries to influence world affairs? (Both terms) | Collective Security (team player) |
| 4. What foreign policy is getting involved in foreign countries to promote important national interests and/or to safeguard national security? (Both terms) | Internationalism, (World Policeman) |
| 5. What foreign policy is gaining power and/or wealth by acquiring territory or taking advantage of weaker nations to gain power or wealth? (Both terms) | Imperialism, (World Bully) |
| 6. What was the first foreign policy of the U.S. and who supported it? | Isolationism, George Washington |
| 7. When President Monroe warned Europe that any attempt to take new colonies in the western hemisphere would be viewed as an act of war, it shifted the U.S. toward what foreign policy? What is this warning known as? | Internationalism, Monroe Doctrine |
| 8. What expanded the Monroe Doctrine allowing us to interfere in Latin America whenever we feel necessary? What is the name of this foreign policy? | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Imperialism |
| 9. What are the 3 main reasons the U.S. wanted to extend its influence to other parts of the world using imperialism? Explain each. | Economic Intersests, increase financial security, Military Interests, expand to protect trade interests, Cultural Superiority- Americans belived that their culture was superior to others. |
| 10. The belief that the U.S. government, religion, and race were superior to those of other countries was an extension of what policy? | Manifest Destiny |
| 11. What are the 4 early examples of U.S. imperialism? | Japan, Samoa, Hawaii, China |
| 12. What word means to attach or take a country or piece of land? | Annex |
| 13. How did the U.S. acquire Hawaii? | Annexed in 1898 |
| 14. What word means to take advantage of? | Exploit |
| 15.What describes sections of China where individual countries claimed special rights and economic privileges? | Spheres of Influence |
| 16. What was the important policy that helped the United States achieve its goal of expanding its influence across the pacific and allowed all nations to trade with China called? | Open Door Policy |
| 17. What were exaggerated newspaper stories that called for Cuban independence and portrayed Spain as a cruel and vicious villain called? | Yellow Journalism |
| 18. Why did President McKinley not want to go to war with Spain over Cuba? | Seen the horrors of the Civil War |
| 19. What event in the Caribbean Sea led McKinley to declare war on Spain over Cuba? | Sinking of the U.S.S Maine |
| 20. Where was the first battle of the Spanish American War fought and why was it significant? | Phillippines |
| 21. What did the U.S. do after Filipino rebels aided by the United States took control of the Philippines? What did the Filipinos do? | United States did not give them independence. |
| 22. What does the U.S. call its colonies or areas it takes complete control of? | Territory |
| 23. What was the 1st ever volunteer cavalry, organized by Theodore Roosevelt that fought in Cuba called? | Rough Riders |
| 24. What was the result of the fighting in Cuba? | U.S. and Cuban forces beat Spain and Cubans get their independence. |
| 25. Who was in control of the Philippines, Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico before the Spanish American War? | Spain |
| 26. What did the U.S. force Cubans to put in their constitution and how did it allow the U.S. to control Cuba without making it a colony? | Platt Amendment, allows U.S. to get involved in Cuba anytime we felt there was a threat to life or liberty. |
| 27.What else did the U.S. force Cuba to do? | Guantanamo Bay military base established. |
| 28. What did the U.S. become as a result of the Spanish American War? Why and what foreign policy allowed this to happen? | America becomes a World Power. Imperialism |
| 29. What group believed taking colonies was anti-American and that America should not deny other people the right to govern themselves? | Anti- Imperialist League |
| 30.What is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land? | Isthmus |
| 31. Why did the U.S. want a canal that connected the Atlantic & Pacific oceans? | U.S. ships would not have to go around South America to get from the East Coast to the West Coast |
| 32. What country owned the Isthmus of Panama and did not want to sell it to the U.S.? | Columbia |
| 33. How did the U.S gain access to the land it needed to build the Panama Canal? What new country was created? | U.S. helps aid rebels to a revolution in the area and the new country of Panama is created. As a result, the U.S. then builds the canal. |
| 34. How much did the U.S. pay for the canal? | 10 million dollars and and an annual fee of $250,000 for the land. 382 million to build it. |
| 35. How did the world react to how the U.S. acquired the canal? | Opposed the move and forced U.S. to pay Columbia 25 million dollars for the loss of the land. |
| 36. Why did the U.S. give up control of the canal in 1979? | Many large ships could no longer fit through the canal so it was no longer essential to U.S. interests |
| 37. What expanded the Monroe Doctrine by claiming U.S. has the right to get involved in Latin America whenever it is in our interests? | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
| 38. What did the U.S foreign policy become in the western hemisphere? What was the result? | Imperialism to protect our interests in other parts of the world. |
| 39. What were the long term effects of U.S. imperialism? | The U.S. becomes major world power. U.S. gains access to trade and business opportunities throughout the world. U.S. sets itself on a collision course with Japan that culminates in the bombing of Pearl Harbor & WW II. |
