| A | B |
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| Great White Fleet | demonstrated America's ability to defend its international interests |
| Queen Liliuokalani | attempted to reduce political influence of the American sugar planters |
| Philippines | maintained as a U.S. possession to increase commercial opportunities for U.S. businesses |
| Platt Amendment | passed to exert political control over Cuba |
| 1903 Panamanian Revolt | encouraged by the U.S. after Columbia refused to allow construction of the Canal |
| Open Door Policy | an attempt to secure U.S. trading rights with China equal to that of other Western countries |
| American Anti-Imperialist League | opposed to U.S. conquest and possession of overseas territories |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | believed that a nation needed a strong navy and the overseas bases to maintain it |
| yellow press journalism | led to America's declaration of war against Spain after the sinking of the USS Maine |
| Cuban rebels | placed in reconcentration camps by the Spanish after fighting for their independence |
| Freedom of the seas | the most significant issue to President Woodrow Wilson from 1914 to 1917 |
| Germany | excluded from the Treaty of Versailles negotiations |
| Zimmerman Telegram | telegram sent from Germany to Mexico proposing alliance in which Mexico would regain TX, NM, and AZ |
| Repression and deportation | the treatment that likely awaited a first-generation immigrant that objected to World War I |
| League of Nations | international organization whose mission was world peace through collective security |
| Woodrow Wilson | re-elected President in 1916 using the campaign slogan "He kept us out of war" despite America's declaration of war one month after taking office |
| Committee on Public Information | government agency whose propaganda efforts were meant to encourage public support for World War I |
| U.S. Senators | opposed entry in the League of Nations because it would weaken America's independence |
| Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare | the factor that most challenged America's neutrality prior to its entry into World War I |
| self-determination | key principle of the Fourteen Points contradicted by President Wilson's refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Bolshevik government in Russia |
| Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace |
| Schenck v. United States | Supreme Court ruling that stated that freedom of speech that presented a "clear and present danger" was not guarateed by the Constitution |
| Treaty of Versailles | resulted in the rise of German nationalism and the Third Reich |
| France | most American soldiers engaged in trench warfare on the western front in this country |
