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Ch. 9 & 7 Imperialism and WWI
Study Guide
1. President Wilson’s peace plan was known as the
2. To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the
3. The event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I was
4. World War I was the first war in which
5. To conserve energy during World War I, the Fuel Administration introduced
6. The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of
7. The “Big Four” who attended the peace conference at the end of World War I were the leaders from the United
States, Britain, France, and
8. In the case Schenck v. the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that
9. One of the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles was that
10. The Triple Alliance included
11. In 1908 the Serbs became furious when
12. According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would
13. According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by
14. During World War I, the slogan “Food Will Win the War–Don’t Waste It” encouraged Americans to
15. “Selling” the war to the American people was the task of
16. Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by
17. In World War I, airplanes were first used to
18. The organization that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation was originally formed to
19. Why did the Russians support the Slavic people against Austria-Hungary?
20. The British entered World War I when
21. What was the only group of women in the military sent overseas in World War I?
22. Many Mexican Americans who migrated north to take factory jobs during World War I settled in their own
neighborhoods called
23. In World War I, ____ were battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns.
24. During World War I, a group called the ____ took power in Russia and established a Communist government.
25. What was a territory called when an imperial power allowed local rulers to stay in control?
26. A tariff passed 1890 demonstrated the Hawaiian economy’s dependence on
27. In the 1880s, American opinion began to shift and more people wanted to make the United States
28. When Americans began looking overseas for new markets in the 1800s, they naturally tended to look toward
29. The Commercial Bureau of the American Republics was formed in order to promote
30. Shortly after midnight on May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey led his squadron into Manila Bay in
31. When the explosion of the Maine happened, many Americans blamed it on
32. Under the Treaty of Paris, Cuba became an independent nation, the United States agreed to pay Spain $20 million
for the Philippines, and the United States acquired Puerto Rico and
33. On April 11, 1898, President McKinley asked Congress to authorize the use of force to end the conflict in
34. Until 1886, about one-third of the Cuban population was
35. A group in China killed more than 200 foreigners in what came to be known as the
36. For his efforts in ending the war between Japan and Russia, Theodore Roosevelt won
37. In 1899, the United States was a major power in
38. The United States considered a possible canal site in
Vocabulary:
propaganda
Black Hand
espionage
contraband
Vladimir Lenin
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
dollary diplomacy
Pan-Americanism
Alfred T. Mahan
imperialism
Matthew C. Perry
Anglo-Saxonism
George Dewey
Platt Amendment
sphere of influence
Open Door policy
José Martí
jingoism