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- 5. a United States foreign policy established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 which that the U.S. would intervene in Latin American countries where European powers sought to collect debts or whose governments were thought to be unstable.
- 8. authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
- 9. one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
- 10. an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests.
- 13. journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.
- 17. a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
- 19. a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
- 20. a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war.
- 21. the understanding between Britain, France, and Russia that developed between 1894 and 1907 and counterbalanced the Triple Alliance of 1882.
- 24. an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. The term has also been extended to objecting to working for the military–industrial complex due to a crisis of conscience.
- 25. archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I
- 26. an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government. A Chinese secret society known as the Boxers embarked on a violent campaign to drive all foreigners from China.
- 27. a major statement of United States foreign policy issued in 1899 and 1900 intended to protect the rights of all countries to trade equally with China and confirming multi-national acknowledgment of China's administrative and territorial sovereignty
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- 1. the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas, often through employing hard power, but also soft power.
- 2. the U.S. foreign policy created by President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox in 1912 whichsought to bolster the struggling economies of Latin American and East Asian countries while also expanding U.S. commercial interests in those regions.
- 3. the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt.
- 4. a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention.
- 6. signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War and overall state of conflict between the two countries.
- 7. forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. This meant a loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers.
- 11. British ocean liner, the sinking of which by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, contributed indirectly to the entry of the United States into World War I.
- 12. a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. With Germany's aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
- 14. an agreement for the cessation of active hostilities between two or more belligerents.
- 15. The Sedition Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war. Passed on May 16, 1918, as an amendment to Title I of the Espionage Act of 1917, the act provided for further and expanded limitations on speech.
- 16. based on the imperialist ideology of the use of military capabilities to influence political, economic, and social spheres.
- 18. an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
- 22. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
- 23. a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. U.S. newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction.