Unit 6 Study Guide

What does Speak softly, and carry a big stick refer to?
Describe big stick diplomacy
Whos policy is it?
What was the Teller Amendment?
How did the United States gain permission to build the Panama Canal?
What was the treaty called?
What was the Platt Amendment?
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
What was Sewards Folly/ Icebox?
What was the first territory that the United States acquired in the Pacific Ocean?
What treaty ended the Spanish- American War?
What territories did the United States acquire as a result of the SpanishAmerican War?
What was Hawaiis primary export to the United States?
What was President Tafts foreign policy called?
What was the Open Door Policy?
What treaty ended WWI?
What country rejected the treaty and negotiated its own peace
agreement with Germany in 1921?
What was the League of Nations?
Why did the United States decide not to participate in it?
What was yellow journalism?
What was the Selective Service Act?
Why was the law necessary?
Who were the Rough Riders?
What countries made up the Triple Alliance in WWI?
What countries made up the Triple Entente in WWI?
Why did German surrender in 1918?
What was the immediate cause of the United States entry into WWI?
What was the Lusitania?
What was unrestricted submarine warfare?