Unit 4 EXAM- America Becomes a World Power Review

Explain why the U.S. victory at the Battle of Argonne forest was significant.

American forces led an offensive that ended the military stalemate in France.

Detail the reasons why Anti-Imperialist were against U.S. expansionism.

American treated the Philippines very poorly.

Explain the reason why American imperialism became more popular after 1898?

Americans wanted to sell goods to new markets and buy raw materials for new industries.

Explain the reason for the U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico.

Ceded the U.S. as a result of the Spanish-American war.

Describe why Colombia and other Latin American countries were resentful of U.S. involvement of the Panama Canal.

Colombia and others Latin American countries resented U.S. interference in the Panamanian revolt against Columbia.

Explain how the U.S. territory acquisitions from the Spanish-American War led to increased trade with east Asia and the Caribbean.

Economic effect of the Spanish-American war.

Describe how the actions of Theodore Roosevelt helped move the united states into a position of world power.

He established U.S. control over the Panama Canal zone and warned European nations not to interfere in the Caribbean.

Identify Sanford B. Dole and his significance during this period.

He led the American sugar plantation owners who seized power in Hawaii and asked to be annexed to the U.S.

Explain why the Spanish-American War of 1898 is considered a historical turning point in U.S history?

It showed that U.S. had become a world power.

Explain why Alfred Thayer Mahan advocated for the construction of a canal through Central America.

It would increase American Naval War.

Identify Henry Cabot Lodge and his significance during this period.

Leader of the majority party in the senate, he persuaded other senators to agree to U.S. acquisition of overseas territories as colonies.

Explain why the U.S. senate fail to ratify the treaty of Versailles in 1919?

Many senators feared the league of nations would involve the U.S. in foreign wars.

List the main causes of World War 1.

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism (M.A.I.N)

Compare and contrast the Platt Amendment to the Teller Resolution.

Platt Amendment preserved Cuban independence but claimed the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.

Explain how the inhabitants of Hawaiians and Americans felt about the U.S annexations of Hawaii.

President Mckinely and U.S senate pushed through the annexation of Hawaii despite popular opposition in Hawaii and the U.S.

Explain how the role of Europe's exclusive "spheres of influence" in China influenced U.S. Secretary of state John Hayes "open door policy"

Should enjoy equal trading rights with other foreign nations in china.

Explain the strategic position soldiers on opposing sides took as a response to the use of machine guns in WW1 warfare.

Soldiers dug trenches which helped develop a stalemate along the western front.

Explain why the period from 1914 to 1918 is viewed as a turning point in U.S. history?

The U.S. participated in a major war in Europe for the first time.

List the major reasons why native Hawaiians protesting the forced U.S annexation of the Hawaiian islands.

The forced annexations of the islands as a U.S territory after the over throw of the Hawaiian monarchy.

Explain the details and significance of Schenck v U.S. (1919).

The limits of free speech in wartime.

Explain the motivation behind the decision to construct the panama canal.

The needs of the U.S. navy after the Spanish-American war.

Explain why President Woodrow Wilson sent the American Expeditionary Forces, led by general John Pershing, to Europe.

They helped the allies defeat the German army in France.

Explain why the geographic location (proximity) of the Philippines to east Asia lead to its acquisition as a territory by the U.S.

They saw the Philippines as a useful base for increasing American trade in East Asia.

Explain why Americans of this period believed the following statement: "The introduction of modern medicine and technology to territories acquired by American expansionism provided the greatest benefit to these areas"

We provided modern medicine/technology to Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Philippines.

Explain the role that the Zimmerman telegram and unrestricted submarine warfare played in American involvement in World War 1.

Zimmerman telegram- germans try to get mexico to go to war with u.s Submarine Warfare- killing of civilians on passenger ships ( Lusitania )