Chapter 17-19 – Flashcards
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Define what is meant by the Monroe Doctrine. State its original meaning and its later interpretation.
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What is meant by the Monroe Doctrine is that the US declared itself to not get involved with European wars and to warn other nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. It is interpreted as that we should have a more active role in protecting the interests of the US.
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How did the Roosevelt (Theodore) Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?
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The Roosevelt Corollary modified the Monroe Doctrine by stating The United States will act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere and intervene to prevent intervention by other powers.
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Progressives were not a single unified movement. They fell into four categories: social, moral, economic, and political. What were their four common basic beliefs?
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Government should be more accountable to its citizens.
Government should curb the power and influence of wealthy interests.
Government should be given expanded powers so that it could become more active in empowering the lives of its citizens.
Government should become more efficient and less corrupt so that they could competently handle an expanded role.
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What Amendment was the last major reform of the Progressive Era? What did the Amendment grant a particular segment of the population to do?
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The last major reform in the Progressive Era was the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
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What were the four main causes of World War I?
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Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
Alliances
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What two countries made up the Central Powers? What four countries made up the Allies?
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Central Powers :
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Allies :
Russia
France
Serbia
Great Britain
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As World War I raged on, both sides holed up in what separated by "no man's land"? On the battlefield, small gains in land resulted in what?
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Small gains in land resulted in huge numbers of human casualties.
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As the war neared an end, President Woodrow Wilson developed a program for peace around the world known as what? Although Wilson and the German government assumed that this particular peace plan would form the basis for peace negotiations what happened as the other Allied countries became involved?
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President Woodrow Wilson developed a program for peace known as the Fourteen Points.
When the other Allied countries became involved each point was discarded one by one.
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One of President Woodrow Wilson's ideas involved the formation of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was designed to do what?
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The League of Nations was designed to bring nations together and ensure peace and security.
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At the conclusion of World War I, France insisted that Germany be what?. The peace treaty required Germany to pay billions of dollars in reparations. What are reparations?
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France insisted the Germany became financially crippled. Reparations are payment for war debt.
