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20 Cards in this Set
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Big Stick Policy |
U.S. policy towards Latin America; used by Teddy Roosevelt |
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Dollar Diplomacy |
U.S. helps Latin America by giving them money |
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Roosevelt Corollary |
Addition to Monroe Doctrine stating the threat if Europe doesn't stay out of the western hemisphere |
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Monroe Doctrine |
U.S. tells Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere (Latin America) |
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Open Door Policy |
U.S. wants free trade with China
negates/undoes the Sphere of influences Europe had set up |
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Imperialism |
One country taking over another country usually for raw materials or resources and new markets to sell things in |
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Alfred Mahan |
Sea power
Navy
Control Ocean |
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Spanish American War |
1898
U.S. gains Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
Cuba gets independence with U.S. telling them what to do.
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Louisiana Purchase |
Doubles size of United States gives US control of New Orleans |
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Cold War |
"Fight" between U.S.S.R. and U.S because U.S. was Democracy and U.S.S.R was Communist
Right after WWII-1991 |
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World War I The Great War |
1914-1919, United States joins in 1917 |
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World War II |
Allies v. Axis powers 1939-1945; US joins 1941 |
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isolationism |
policy where a country stays out of another's affairs US policy before both world wars |
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Zimmerman telegram |
German offer to get US land for Mexico when together they defeat the US in WWI
a major reason US joins WWI |
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Lusitania |
ship sunk by German U-Boats that helped lead US closer to joining in WWI |
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League of Nations |
attempt at world peace; US never joined
began after WWI |
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United Nations |
organization to help achieve world peace
began after WWII |
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Camp David Accords |
US President Jimmy Carter mediates an agreement between Egypt and Israel |
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detente |
lessening of tension
examples were Nixon visiting China and USSR |
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9/11 |
term used to indicate the terrorist attack on American soil that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center |
