Chapter 24 Notecards

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Lusitania

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American ship destroyed by German Navy killing 128 Americans

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The taking of the Canal Zone

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The United States formed a treaty with Nicaragua to build a canal in Panama

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Open Door Policy

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Open trade with china

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Roosevelt Corollary

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an extension of the Monroe Doctrine by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserted a right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts.

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Sussex Pledge

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German agreement to leave American ships alone

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“Dollar Diplomacy”

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the term used to describe the 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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A group of powerful nations put together by Woodrow Wilson to take initiative after the war

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Pancho Villa

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Mexican general who tried to revolt against Mexican government

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Zimmerman Telegram

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a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States

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William Jennings Bryan

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selected as the secretary of war by woodrow wilson

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Hay Herran Convention

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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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the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge

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Eugene V Debs

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convicted for violating the Espionage Act. Also ran for president again in 1920

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Hay-Pauncefort Treaty

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Agreement between the UK and the USA concerning the construction and control of the planned Panama Canal.

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Bolshevik

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a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction[3] at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Sedition Act

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an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16, 1918. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt.

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Espionage Act

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prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, support America's enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or interfere with military recruitment

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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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terms of sale for the building of a Panama Canal and for a Panama Canal Zone surrounding the canal.

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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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Committee on Public Information. an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I.

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WIB

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War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies

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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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Eugene V. Debs

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convicted of violating espionage act and ran for pres in 1920

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Pacifists

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People who tend to stray away from violence

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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. the United States recognized Japan's sphere of influence in Korea; in exchange, Japan recognized the United States's sphere of influence in the Philippines

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Victoriano Huerta

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a Mexican military officer and president of Mexico. took over after Diaz

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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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heir of the Austria-Hungary throne. Shot, which led to WWI

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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 form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body whereby a lone member can elect to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a proposal.

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Trench Warfare

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a form of warfare in which combatants occupy fighting lines, consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are largely immune to the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery

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Liberty Bonds

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Money lent out by American banks.

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty that ended WWI. US never signed