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39 Cards in this Set
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What was Alfred Thayer Mahan's idea/position?
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leading proponent of imperialism who emphasized the importance of sea power
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Social Darwinists argued...
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that war is a vehicle for natural selection
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Mob incident in Valparaiso Chile
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two American sailors killed on shore leave; Chile apoligized and paid $75,000 compensation
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Significance of the port of Pago Pago on the Samoan Islands?
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used as a refueling station for trips traveling to and from Asia
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When were the Hawaiian Islands annexed?
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1898
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What did Valeriano "Butcher" Weyler that angered the American public?
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he created "concentration" camps where thousands of Cubans ended up dying
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Platt Amendment (1901)
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agreement to withdraw US troops from Cuba; US maintained a naval base
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Guantanamo Bay
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the US naval base in Cuba
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Anti-Imperialist League
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small but influential group that opposed imperialism
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Emilio Aquinaldo
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nationalist leader of Filipino war against American occupation
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President William McKinley
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"our little brown brothers"
spread our christian values |
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President Theodore Roosevelt
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youthful successor to McKinley in 1901; pushed an agenda of progressive reform
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President William Taft
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Roosevelt's hand-picked successor for president; later served as Supreme Court Justice
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Hepburn Act
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legislation that strengthened government power to regulate railroads
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National Reclamation Act
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sold public land and used the revenues for water management and dam projects
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Progressive Party
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national third party formed around TR's candidacy in 1912
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Federal Reserve Act
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major step toward establishing a national banking system
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Federal Trade Commission
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agency to ensure fair trade and practices
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Louis Brandeis
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jurist who pioneered use of sociology and other social sciences in arguing legal cases
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Boxer Rebellion
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fanatical chines insurgency against Christians and foreigner, defeated by an international force
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Open Door Notes
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John Hay's statement of American policy to keep trade open in China
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Panama Canal
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waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic, completed by US in 1914
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Selective Service Act
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draft act to raise an army during WWI
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AEF
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American Expeditionary Force - 3 million Americans were drafted into a force to fight in Europe during WWI
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WIB
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War Industries Board - major federal agency created to regulate wartime production, and allocation of materials
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John J. Pershing
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commander of american expeditionary Force which fought in Europe
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Committee on Public Information
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wartime propaganda agency led by journalist George Creel
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Espionage Act
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criminalized virtually any antiwar activity
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Sedition Amendment
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curtailed First Amendement rights in criticizing war or government
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Nineteenth Amendment
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rewarded women for their wartime service and granted women suffrage
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Influenza Pandemic
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one of the heels of the devastation of WWI, more than half a million Americans died of the flu in 1918
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Eighteenth Amendment
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established national prohibition to encourage and regulate morality during wartime
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War Labor Board
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wartime agency that encouraged unionization and collective bargaining as a means of avoiding labor discord
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Fourteen Points
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Wilson's blueprint for a better world; emphasized self-determination
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Versailles Peace Conference
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negotiations for a peace settlement in France; the resulting settlement harshly punished Germany, laying the seeds of future conflict
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League of Nations
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Wilson's plan for an international deliberative body, viewed as necessary to keep the peace; rejected by the US Senate; the US never joined
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Reservationists
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led by Lodge, demanded amendments to the league as condition for their support
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Lake Michigan Incident
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AA kid is stoned and a huge riot follows
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Warren G. Harding
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elected in 1920; well-meaning but conservative and undistinguished successor to Woodrow Wilson
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