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| the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917–18 | John J. Pershing |
| United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I | American Expeditionary Force |
| an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce. | Armistice |
| a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I, elucidated in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. | Fourteen Points |
| was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war. | Treaty of Versailles |
| the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like. | League of Nations |
| prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States. | Espionage and Sedition Acts |
| a period of colonial expansion—and its accompanying ideologies—by the European powers, the United States of America and the Empire of Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. | New Imperialism |
| was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was a leader of the Social Gospel movement, calling for social justice and combating social evils | Josiah Strong |
| Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." | Alfred T. Mahan |
| extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy. | Jingoism |
| a note written by Señor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, to Don José Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme's opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and US President McKinley's diplomacy. | DeLome Letter |
| an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war against Spain which proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba | Teller Amendment |
| the conflict arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to secure independence from the United States following the latter's acquisition of the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish–American War. | Philippine insurrection |
| a series of opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1901 about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War | insular cases |
| 1904–05), military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in the Far East, becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power. | Russo Japanese War |
| the 1905 agreement with Japan in which we pledged to respect each other's territorial possessions and to uphold the Open Door policy in China | Root Takahira Agreement |
| a United States federal statute that provides for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine.[1] Among other purposes, the law regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports | Jones Act |
| An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of Veracruz in April 1914. | Tampico Incident |
