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33 Cards in this Set
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Lustania
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•ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain
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the taking of the canal zone
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An initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal failed, but only after a great amount of excavation was carried out. This was of use to the U.S. effort, which finally completed the present Panama Canal in 1914.
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Open Door Policy (notes)
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the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting America's right to intervene in Latin American affairs
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Sussex pledge
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•The Sussex pledge was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war
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"dollar diplomacy"
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the term used to describe the "good chiss effort" of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
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League of Nations
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•an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed
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Pancho Villa
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was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals
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Zimmerman Telegram
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was a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Washington, Johann von Bernstorff, at the height of World War
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Williams Jennings Bryan
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an american politican
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Hay Herran Convention
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On 28 June 1902, Congress appropriated $40,000,000 to purchase existing rights to build a canal across Central America from the New Panama Canal Co., but left Colombia's payment for a lease to be settled by diplomacy. US-Colombian negotiations produced the Hay-Herrán Convention, which promised Colombia $10,000,000 and annual royalties of $250,000 for a 99-year lease on a canal zone across modern Panama.
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Bernard Baruch
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an American financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters
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Herbert Hoover
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31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
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Eugene V Debs
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an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as candidate for President of the United States as a member of the Social Democratic Party
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Hay-Pauncefort Treaty
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•In 1901 the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. This agreement nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 and gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across Central America, connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bolshevik
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a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from Russia
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sedition act
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•Made it a crime to criticize the government or government officials. Opponents claimed that it violated citizens' rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, gauranteed by the First Amednment
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espionage act
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A law adopted by the Congress in 1917 that outlawed criticism of the US government and its participation in World War I in Europe
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14 points
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a speech delivered by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
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Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
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•The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed on November 18, 1903 (two weeks after Panama's independence from Colombia). Phillipe Bunau-Varilla went to Washington, D.C. and New York City to negotiate the terms with several U.S. officials, most prominently, Secretary of State John Hay.
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George Creel
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an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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CPI
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consumer price index: an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
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WIB
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a Wall Street financier, assumed management of the nation's economy in 1918.
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Pacifists
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the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage
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Taft-Katsura Agreement
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a set of notes taken during conversations between United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Prime Minister of Japan Katsura Taro on 29 July 1905
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Victoriano Huerta
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a Mexican military officer and president of Mexico.
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John J. Pershing
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a general officer in the United States Army.
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Franz Ferdinand
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his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I
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American Union Against Militarism
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an American pacifist organization active during World War I.
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Filibuster
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•a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
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Trench Warfare
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a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win; "the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare"
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Liberty Bonds
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a war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to the bonds became a symbol of patriotic duty in the United States and introduced the idea of financial securities to many citizens for the first time
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treaty of versailles
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•the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
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