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USII.5abc: The Spanish American War, Theodore Roosevelt’s Foreign Policies and WWI Review
USII.5abc Test Review: Using your INB notes and your Blue Book, answer each question below:
1. What is yellow journalism? Exaggerated News Reports of Events
2. The U.S.S. Maine is to the Spanish American War as the Lusitania is to World War I.
3. What year did the Spanish-American War take place? 1898
4. List the 4 Reasons for the Spanish-American War:
a.
Protection of American business interests in Cuba; Sugar
b.
American support of Cuban Rebels to help Cuba gain their independence from Spain
c.
Rising tensions as a result of the U.S. S. Maine explosion/sinking in Havana Harbor
d.
Exaggerated news reports of events; Yellow Journalism
5. List the 3 Results of the Spanish-American War:
6.
a.
The U.S. emerged as a world power
b.
Cuba gained their independence from Spain
c.
The U.S. gained possession of Guam, Philippines, and Puerto Rico
Theodore Roosevelt expanded the Monroe Doctrine as a way to prevent European involvement in the
affairs of the Caribbean and South American/Latin American countries.
7. List Theodore Roosevelt’s three (3) foreign policies and impacts:
a.
Asserted the U.S. ‘ right to interfere in the economic matters of other nations in the Americas
b.
Claimed the U.S. ‘ right to exercise international police power
c.
Advocated the Big Stick Diplomacy (building of the Panama Canal)
8. What year did WWI begin? 1914
9. What year did the United States enter WWI? 1917
10. On what continent did most of WWI take place? Mostly Europe
11. List the Central Powers of WWI:
a.
Germany
c. Austria-Hungary
b.
Bulgaria
d. Ottoman Empire/Aka-Turkey
12. List the Allies of WWI:
a. British Empire/Great Britain
d. Serbia
b. France
e. Belgium
c.
f.
Russia
United States
13. Who was the United States President during WWI? Woodrow Wilson
14. What was the name of the peace plan prepared by that president at the end of the war? League of
Nations; 14 Points
15. What was the purpose of that peace plan? Peacekeeping Organization
16. What country did not join that plan? The United States