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| 5359126324 | Pan-Americanism | James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market.James G. Blaine sought to open up Latin American markets to the U.S.; rejected by Latin America due to fear of U.S. dominance and satisfaction with European market | 0 | |
| 5359126325 | Valparaiso Incident | Foreign incident where two sailors are killed in a fight in Chile, the US demands an indemnity and gets it | 1 | |
| 5359126326 | Alaskan Purchase | Called "Seward's Folly" and was $7.2 dollars and sold from Russia. Although there was controversy over the necessity of this land, eventually gold was struck and peoples minds changed. | 2 | |
| 5359128794 | Berlin Conference 1884 | To avoid wars and bloodshed, Europeans met in Berlin regarding Africa. Bismark promoted the 3 Cs :Commerce, Christianity, and Civilization. No Africans were invited. Agreement was that any European power could claim a part, but they had to have a set up government office there. | 3 | |
| 5359128795 | Alfred T. Mahan | Author who argued in 1890 that the economic future of the United States rested on new overseas markets protected by a larger navy. Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History". | 4 | |
| 5359134435 | Battleships | Heavily armed and armored warships designed to engage other warships and provide shore bombardment. | 5 | |
| 5359134436 | Venezuela Crisis | 1902, England, Germany, and France lend Venezuela $. Venezuela is unable to pay the loan back. TR said it was a violation of the Monroe Doctrine when England sent navy to Venezuela. Britain agrees to arbitration. | 6 | |
| 5359134437 | Anglo-Saxonism | The idea that English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government and were destined to control other nations. | 7 | |
| 5359135702 | José Martí | Cuban poet and journalist who organized a guerrilla revolution against Spain in 1895- "Cuba Libre" free Cuba was his battle cry-and sought US support and intervention. | 8 | |
| 5359135703 | Valeriano Weyler | General sent by Spain to stop Cuban revolt, referred to as the "Butcher" because of harsh tactics "concentration camps, shooting civilian, ect.. | 9 | |
| 5359137795 | Reconcentration | The forced movement of large numbers of people into detention camps for military or political reasons. | 10 | |
| 5359137796 | Cuba Libre | The independence of cuba, Spanish-American War for Cuba's Independence. By the end of the 1800s, Spain had lost all of its New World colonies except Cuba and Puerto Rico. Many Cubans did not wish to be under Spanish rule, so they fled to Florida and other parts of the United States. | 11 | |
| 5359139551 | Hearst & the New York Journal | It was a United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism. The new york Journal was a media giant who some accused of pushing the U.S. in to the Spanish-American War | 12 | |
| 5359139552 | Pulitzer & the New York World | United States newspaper publisher who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911), the owner of the New York World who used yellow journalism during the Spanish-American War. The New York World was the paper published by Joseph Pulitzer. | 13 | |
| 5359140470 | Jingoism | Excessive, loud patriotism and aggressive, warlike foreign policy. | 14 | |
| 5359140471 | De Lôme letter | Spanish Ambassador's letter that was illegally removed from the U.S. Mail and published by American newspapers. It criticized President McKinley in insulting terms. Used by war hawks as a pretext for war in 1898. | 15 | |
| 5359141490 | USS Maine | U.S. Battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898; Evidence suggests an internal explosion, however Spanish military was framed by Yellow Journalism; The incident was a catalyst for the Spanish American War. | 16 | |
| 5359178762 | Henry Cabot Lodge | He was a Republican who disagreed with the Versailles Treaty, and who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He mostly disagreed with the section that called for the League to protect a member who was being threatened. | 17 | |
| 5359178763 | Teller Amendment | As Americans were preparing for war with Spain over Cuba in 1898, this Senate measure stated that under no circumstances would the United States annex Cuba. The amendment was passed as many in the muckraking press were suggesting that the Cuban people would be better off "under the protection" of the U.S. | 18 | |
| 5359179705 | Rough Riders | The First United States Volunteer Calvary, a mixture of Ivy League athletes and western frontiersmen, volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War. Enlisted by Theodore Roosevelt, they won many battles in Florida and enlisted in the invasion army of Cuba. | 19 | |
| 5359179706 | Commodore George Dewey | Followed Roosevelt's order to attack Spanish forces in the Philippines when war was declared; completely destroyed the Spanish fleet stationed at Manila Bay on May 1, 1898; was immediately promoted to admiral, becoming the first her of the war; his victory shed light on the adjusted purpose of war with Spain from just freeing Cuba to stripping Spain of all of its colonies. | 20 | |
| 5359181514 | Guam | Americans secured this remote Pacific island from Spain after the war over Cuba. Americans had captured it earlier, before the residents even knew that there was a war going on. | 21 | |
| 5359181515 | Puerto Rico | A U.S. territory; the U.S. gained it from Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War. People here have U.S. citizenship, and many here would like it to be a U.S. state. | 22 | |
| 5359182578 | Hawaii 1898 | America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration. | 23 | |
| 5359182579 | San Juan Hill | Site of the most famous battle of the Spanish-American war, where Theodore Roosevelt successfully leads the Rough Riders in a charge against the Spanish trenches. | 24 | |
| 5359183726 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain (1895-1898). He proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in 1899, but his movement was crushed and he was captured by the United States Army in 1901. | 25 | |
| 5359183727 | Guantanamo Bay | Acquired by sending marines. The United States assumed territorial control over Guantanamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty, which granted the United States a perpetual lease of the area without the Cuban Government reacting. | 26 | |
| 5359184913 | Philippine Insurrection | Even before the Philippines was annexed by the U.S. there existed tension between U.S. troops and Filippinos. The situation deteriorated and eventually we entered into a war with the Philippines. Emilio Aguinaldo helped Americans fight Spain only to turn on them once free. In 1901, Aguinaldo surrendered which greatly hurt the Filippino cause. The Philippines was not an independent nation until July 4, 1946. | 27 | |
| 5359115256 | Insular Cases, Supreme Court 1901 | These were court cases dealing with islands/countries that had been recently annexed and demanded the rights of a citizen. These Supreme Court cases decided that the Constitution did not always follow the flag, thus denying the rights of a citizen to Puerto Ricans and Filipinos. | 28 | |
| 5359173194 | Jones Act 1916 | It granted full territorial status to that country, guaranteed a bill of rights and universal male suffrage to Filipino citizens, and promised Philippine independence as soon as a stable government was established. | 29 | |
| 5359163238 | Big Stick Policy | Roosevelt's philosophy - In international affairs, ask first but bring along a big army to help convince them. Threaten to use force, act as international policemen. | 30 | |
| 5359161745 | Panama Canal | The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Colombians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal. | 31 | |
| 5359161746 | Platt amendment | Forced into Cuban Constitution. Cuba could not make treaties with other nations; US had right to intervene in Cuba; US naval bases on Cuban land. | 32 | |
| 5359158169 | Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force, first put into effect in Dominican Republic. | 33 | |
| 5359159202 | John Hay's Open Door Note | A series of letters sent in 1899 by US secretary of state John Hay to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia, howling for equal economic access to the China market for all states and for the maintenance of the Tarrant Oreo and administrative integrity of the Chinese empire. | 34 | |
| 5359158170 | Boxer Rebellion | 1899 rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops. | 35 | |
| 5359160483 | Russo-Japanese War | (1904-1905) War between Russia and Japan over imperial possessions. Japan emerges victorious. | 36 | |
| 5359159203 | Portsmouth Agreement | Theodore Roosevelt's admin; temporarily ended fighting between Russia and japan; why Theodore Roosevelt won the peace prize in 1906 | 37 | |
| 5359151431 | "Gentlemen's Agreement" | Agreement when Japan agreed to curb the number of workers coming to the US and in exchange Roosevelt agreed to allow the wives of the Japanese men already living in the US to join them. | 38 | |
| 5359149252 | Venustiano Carranza | He became president of Mexico in 1914. He succeeded the harsh President Huerta. President Carranza at first supported Wilson's sending General Pershing into Mexico to look for the criminal Pancho Villa, but when he saw the number of troops he became outraged and opposed Wilson. | 39 | |
| 5359120003 | Dollar Diplomacy | Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support for the right to "help" countries make decisions about trade and other commercial ventures. Basically it was exchanging money for political influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. | 40 | |
| 5359151432 | Wilson's Moral Diplomacy | Supported justice, human rights, national integrity & democracy. | 41 | |
| 5359153013 | Victoriano Huerta | He was a Mexican military officer and President of Mexico who was also leader of the violent revolution that took place in 1913. His rise to power caused many Mexicans to cross the border as well as angering the United States who saw him as a dictator. | 42 | |
| 5359153012 | Porfilio Diaz | President in Mexico who had expansion of industries like rail and banking; appeared to have stability because of strong arm tactics, but really but really wealthy acquired land but didn't grow food, people were unhappy | 43 | |
| 5359118883 | Port of Veracruz Incident | On April 9, 1914, several sailors from the crew of the USS Dolphin, anchored in the port of Tampico, were arrested after landing in a restricted dock area and detained for an hour and a half. The U.S. president Woodrow Wilson demanded a 21-gun salute to the U.S. flag as an apology. When Mexican president Victoriano Huerta refused, Wilson sent a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico. On November 14 the U.S. Marines were withdrawn. | 44 | |
| 5359121697 | Pancho Villa | This military leader dominated Northern Mexico during the Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1915. His supporters seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains. Allied with Zapata. He was eventually defeated though before the revolution ended in 1920. | 45 | |
| 5359121988 | General John "Blackjack" | He replaced Marshall Fock and commanding the US Army and with him the war ended in nine months nickname because he commanded black soldiers he was an AEF. | 46 | |
| 5359122221 | Pershing | led the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, He was the U.S. General commanding the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during WW1. | 47 | |
| 5359118882 | Triple Alliance | Alliance among Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy at the end of the 19th century; part of European alliance system and balance of power prior to World War I. | 48 | |
| 5359117020 | Dual Alliance | Bismarck's (Germany's) secret treaty with Austria which provided for support if attacked by Russia. | 49 | |
| 5359117008 | Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. | 50 | |
| 5359115257 | Algeciras Conference | International conference called to deal with the Moroccan question. French get Morocco, Germany gets nothing, isolated. Result is U.S, Britain, France, Russia see Germany as a threat. | 51 |
