Words in War Congress Passes it 'Lead' the Way War in Action
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What is Yellow Journalism?
Starting a war between newspaper tycoons, this type of writing exaggerates news to lure and enrage readers
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What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Used as a potential resolution to the WW1, it established nine new nations and shifted the boundaries of other nations
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Who was Woodrow Wilson?
President during WW1; He tried to hold peace as long as he could, and introduced the Treaty of Versailles
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What is Trench Warfare?
Where armies fight for mere yards of ground in horrible conditions (rats, waste, disease, death)
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What is Propoganda?
This is a kind of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions - used extensively throughout WW1
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What was the Open Door Policy?
This policy was made to protect American rights and reflected three deeply held American beliefs about the U.S industrial capitalist economy: the growth of the U.S. economy depended on exports, they had a right to intervene abroad to keep foreign markets open, and they feared that the closing of an area to American products, citizens, or ideas threatened U.S. survival.
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Who was John Hay?
This man introduced the series of statements known as Open Door Notes
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What is an Armistace?
Word for a truce that ends a war
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What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
The policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military; this defined Teddy Roosevelt's leadership
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What was the Forkraker Act?
Passed in 1900, this ended military rule and set up a civil government
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What is a Conscientious Objector?
The general name for a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds
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What is Submarine Warfare?
Tactic used during the war that killed many people on all sides by sinking enemy ships
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What was the Zimmerman Note?
A telegram from Germany promising territory take over if war broke out; this pushed the U.S further into WW1
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What was the Sedition Act?
A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort with this act
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Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The assasination of this man touched off a diplomatic crisis, pulling one nation after another into conflict, and in a way, led to the war itself
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What is the Roosevelt Collary?
Tactic used during the war that killed many people on all sides by sinking enemy ships
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt stating that the United States would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America
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What are Open Door Notes?
Letters addressed to the leaders of imperialist nations proposing that the nations share their trading rights with the United States
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What is the Treaty of Paris?
With this, Spain freed Cuba and turned over the islands of Guam in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the West Indies to the United States
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Who was General John J. Pershing?
This man led The American Expeditionary Force
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What was the Lusitania?
The name of the British Liner that was sunk by a U-boat on May 7, 1915 killing a total of 1,198 people






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