11.4 Students trace the rise of the
United States to its role as a world
power in the twentieth century.
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Domestic Policy
Foreign Policy
Neutrality
Unilateralism
Diplomacy
Mass Media
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You are walking through the quad during
brunch, on your way to the cafeteria to buy a
delicious slice of pizza from the pizza cart. On
your way you hear a big circle of people
yelling. As you get closer you hear people
chanting “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
As you get even closer to the circle you see that
one of the people in the middle is your friend
and the other person is one of the most popular
persons at school, but you don’t know him/her
personally.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
Get in the middle- separate them both
Jump in on your friend’s side and beat up the
other person
Jump in on the side of the more popular kid
because you want to get something out of them or
become popular?
Walk away- do nothing
Yell words of encouragement to your friend
Beat up everyone- they deserve it for starting the
fight
Go get a teacher
Watch and see how it goes and then decide
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Get in the middle- separate them both
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Jump in on your friend’s side and beat
up the other guy
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Imperialism
Go get a teacher
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Unilateralism
Beat up everyone- they deserve it for
starting the fight
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Neutrality
Yell words of encouragement to your
friend
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Unilateralism
Walk away- do nothing
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Unilateralism
Jump in on the side of the more
popular kid because you want to get
something out of them or become
popular?
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Collective Security, diplomacy
Collective Security, diplomacy
Watch and see how it goes and then
decide
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Isolationism to unilateralism
Story Relation:
 Loner- Neutrality,
Isolationism
 Peacemaker- Collective
security, diplomacy
 Good/Selfish
Friend/one sidedUnilateralism
 School BullyImperialism
Steps:
 Read the following primary sources
 Summarize source in your own words
 Place it on the spectrum
 Write 1 reason why you placed the source in
the category
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Homework, pgs 262-267
Add information from the following to your
spectrum:
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American inaction during Cuban Revolution
The de Lome Letter
The Maine explosion
US Response to the Maine explosion
Fighting in the Philippines
Fighting in Cuba, Treaty of Paris
Platt Amendment
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Think about the bully story…
How could you make the situation grow or get
worse in some way?
Brainstorm
Pair Share
Why would you do this?
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Sensational news
stories that often
exaggerated the
facts
Part of a
“newspaper war”
between
Pulitzer’s New
York World and
Hearst’s New
York Journal
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US Newspapers React
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Only major form of mass media in the US
Hearst & Pulitzer support revolutionaries and
stir US support
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USS Maine sinks
in Havana harbor
after an explosion
Newspapers
blame Spain
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Later it is found
that a coal bin
exploded inside
the ship
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Reflection- should manipulative journalism be
legal? Which ideals does it support, which
ideals does it deny?
STEP 1: Using the textbook, create a yellow
journalism headline or image representing the
buildup to the Spanish-American War
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Pgs. 260-261
STEP 2: Create a yellow journalism headline or
image for today.