A | B |
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force | Imperialism |
a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuba | Spanish-American War |
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism | William Randolph Hearst |
Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World | Joseph Pulitzer |
battleship commissioned in 1895 that was part of the new U.S. Navy fleet of steel ships. It exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898 | USS Maine |
canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade | Panama Canal |
organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. | Anti-Imperialism League |
was an American proposal that aimed to keep Chinese markets open for all and not allow any one country to gain control over the region. | Open Door Policy |
was an anti-imperialist uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty. | Boxer Rebellion |
tates that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans press their claims directly. | Roosevelt Corollary |
idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military | “Big Stick” Diplomacy |
the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. | Dollar Diplomacy |
the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West | Great Migration |
British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915 | Lusitania |
offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause | Zimmermann Telegram |
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. | Selective Service Act |
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. | Trench Warfare |
US infantryman, especially one in World War I. | Doughboys |