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18 Cards in this Set
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Isolationsim |
avoiding affairs with other countries |
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imperialism |
empire expand borders and influence |
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William seward |
purchased alaska |
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sewards folly |
nickname for alaska because people though it was a frozen wasteland |
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Yellow journalism |
exagerated news to sell papers |
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USS maine |
sunk accidentaly but blamed on spanish to sell newspapers |
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Teddy Roosevelt |
quit job in dc to join fight, hero of spanish american war after he led rough riders up hill in cuba |
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rough riders |
led by teddy roosevelt up hill in cuba |
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neutrality |
not choosing sides |
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luisitania |
british boat sunk by germany in 1915 |
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Liberty bonds |
loans from people to government for war effort |
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treaty of versailles |
official end of ww1 |
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selective service act of 1917 |
drafting into war |
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fourteen points |
wilsons proposals to end causes of modern war |
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reparations |
germany to pay war bills of winning countries |
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league of nations |
wilsons 14th point, international world body to solve problem peacefully |
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armistice |
agreement to stop war |
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zimmerman note |
intercepted between germany and mexico |
