Unit 6: Imperialism & WWI

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Across
  1. 4. A letter in which a Spanish ambassador criticized President McKinley considered a cause of the Spanish-American War
  2. 5. sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the US
  3. 8. movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural south into Northern cities
  4. 11. Roosevelt's philosophy in international affairs- ask first but bring along an army to help convince them threat of force act as international police
  5. 13. plan for post WWI relationships outlined by President Wilson
  6. 14. European War in which an alliance including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the US defeated the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria
  7. 15. man-made waterway linking the Atlantic to the Pacific across the Isthmus of Panama by the US
  8. 16. national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
  9. 17. President during WWI
  10. 19. Wilson declared the US a neutral state in WWI; we did continue to trade with countries involved in the war, specifically the allied powers
  11. 20. treaty that ended WWI
  12. 21. German policy that stated their submarines would sink any ship in British waters
  13. 23. an extension of the Monroe Doctrine; said the U.S. had the right to intervene & "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in Central America and the Caribbean if they were unable to pay their international debts
Down
  1. 1. formed to fight the U.S. annexation of the Philippines
  2. 2. leading socialist & labor organizer; gave speeches against US participation in WWI arrested and convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 sentenced to 10 years in prison
  3. 3. international organization formed in 1920 after WWI to promote cooperation & peace
  4. 6. US ship that mysteriously exploded & sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba
  5. 7. law passed that punished people for aiding the enemy or refusing military duty during WWI
  6. 9. members of the 1st volunteer Calvary in the Spanish-American War
  7. 10. British passenger liner sunk by a German U-Boat; 128 Americans died and changed American opinion about Germans and the war
  8. 12. a political party that believes people should own and control industry through democratically controlled public agencies, cooperatives, or other collective groups
  9. 18. six month conflict between Spain and the US resulted in Spain ceding Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the US and abandoned all claim to Cuba
  10. 22. political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories to build an empire/nation