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| 485921804 | Boxer Rebellion | Fanatical Chinese insurgency against Christians and foreigners (occupation of Beijing); defeated by an international force to which the U.S. contributed troops; further weakened Chinese government | |
| 485921805 | Open Door notes | John Hay's statement of American policy to keep trade open in China | |
| 485921806 | Panama Canal | waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, completed by the U.S. in 1914 under Roosevelt | |
| 485921807 | Roosevelt Corallary | pronouncement by Roosevelt in 1904 that said the U.S. was justified to intervene in Latin America in instances of "chronic wrongdoing"; Monroe Doctrine had warned against meddling in Latin America | |
| 485921808 | Treaty of Portsmouth | signed at a peace conference assembled by Roosevelt; between Japan and Russia; Russia recognized Japan's rule of Korea and made other territorial concessions; Japan seen as a threat to American position in the Philippines | |
| 485921809 | Gentleman's Agreement | negotiated between Japan and San Francisco school administration; Tokyo pledged to halt emigration to America | |
| 485921810 | "yellow peril" | describes how America felt threatened by Asia | |
| 485921811 | Selective Service Act | Draft act to raise army during World War 1 | |
| 485921812 | American Expeditionary Force | Three million American men were drafted into a force to fight in Europe during WW1 | |
| 485921813 | War Industries Board (WIB) | Major federal agency created to regulate wartime production, allocation of materials | |
| 485921814 | John J. Pershing | Commander of American Expeditionary Force that fought in Europe | |
| 485921815 | Committee of Public Information | Wartime proaganda agency established in April 1917, led by journalist George Creel | |
| 485921816 | Espionage Act | Criminalized virtually any antiwar activity | |
| 485921817 | Sedition Amendment | Curtailed First Amendment rights in criticizing war or goverment | |
| 485921818 | Nineteenth Amendment | Wilson rewarded women for their wartime service and supported the amendment granting women the vote; ratified in 1920 | |
| 485921819 | influenza pandemic | one the heels of the devastation of World War 1, more than a half million Americans died of influenza in 1918 | |
| 485921820 | Eighteenth Amendment | Established National Prohibiiton to encourage and regulate morality during wartime | |
| 485921821 | War Labor Board | Wartime agency that encouraged unionization and collective barganing as a menas of avoiding labor discord | |
| 485921822 | Fourteen Points | Wilson's buleprint for a better wold; emphasized self-determination | |
| 485921823 | Versailles Peace Conference | Negotiations for a peace settlement in France, the resulting settlement harshly punished Germany, laying the seeds of future conflict | |
| 485921824 | League of Nations | Wilson's plan for an international deliberative body, viewed as necessary to keep the peace; rejected by the U.S. Senate; the U.S. never joined | |
| 485921825 | Warren G. Harding | Elected in 1920; the well-meaning byt conservative and undistiguished successor to Woodrow Wilson |
