Vocab 7

8. Where stronger nations take control of weaker ones for economic, political, or military gain
9. Period of reform fixing social, political, and economic problems caused by industrialization and urbanization
10. conflict in 1898 between the United States and Spain, with U.S. victory leading to American Imperialism
11. 1919 peace treaty that officially ended World War I
12. Style of exaggerated journalism used to attract readers and influence public opinion
15. Part of the Fourteen Points Plan, international organization aimed to create peace after WWI
16. Woodrow Wilson's proposal for peace after WWI
17. President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy of diplomatically negotiating while using the threat of a strong military

1. Payments made by a defeated country to compensate for damage and costs caused during a war
2. Community centers that provided social services
3. Chinese uprising that tried to stop foreign influence by a group of "boxers"
4. British Passenger ship sunk by German U-boat that caused American outrage to Germany in the first World War
5. Type of fighting in WWI with soldiers in trenches, often resulting in high-cost low-gain attacks
6. Secret message from Germany to Mexico asking it to invade the U.S. that caused the U.S. to join the war
7. Man-made waterway in Central America finished in 1914
13. Where African Americans moved North to escape racism and find oppurtunity
14. U.S. policy that called for equal trading rights in China