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US Foreign Policy: 1880-1920
AP US History: Questions on foreign policy 1880-1920
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01/04/2011

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Term
What president from the era 1880-1920 opposed Hawaiian annexation
Definition
Grover Cleveland
Term
What were the countries involved in the Samoan crisis?
Definition
1. United States
2. Germany
3. Great Britain
Term
What was William Jennings Bryan's solution for resolving international crises called?
Definition
Cooling off period
Term
What incident were the ABC powers called to mediate?
Definition
Tampico incident
Term
Who was the object of the Mexican incursion?
Definition
Poncho Villa
Term
What president resolved the Venuzualan boundary dispute?
Definition
Grover Cleveland
Term
What policy for the western hemisphere did James G. Blaine and William Jennings Bryan share?
Definition
Pan Americanism
Term
Who were the two pillars of Yellow Journalism?
Definition
1. Hearst
2. Pulitzer
Term
What instructions did Frederic Remington receive during the uprising in Cuba?
Definition
"You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war"
Term
What was the amendment to the war resolution against Spain and what was its main point?
Definition

1. Teller Amendment

2. We won't take Cuba

Term
Were the irreconcilables Republicans, Democrats, or both?
Definition
Both (14 Republicans, 4 Democrats)
Term
What were the four provisions of the Open Door Note?
Definition
1. Non interference with sphere of influence already established in China
2. Equal treatment of all nations within sphere of influence
3.everyone gets same tariff concessions
4. China keeps its territorial and administrative integrtiy
Term
Who was DeLome?
Definition
Spanish ambassador to US - wrote letter about Mckinley
Term
Did American businessmen see the Spanish-American War as a boost to businesses?
Definition
NO, war is bad for business
Term
Who was the leader of the Philippine Revolution?
Definition
Aguinaldo
Term
Who said, "I took the Canal and let Congress debate"?
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
Term
What was the policy called when we said we have the right to exercise "international police power" whenever Latin American republics were unable to maintain order to fulfill their obligations to to other nations?
Definition
Roosevelt Corrolary
Term
What were two parts of the dollar diplomacy?
Definition
1. US encourages investment in South America
2. Investments were government supported
Term
What did the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua have in common with Respect to the U.S?
Definition
We intervened
Term
What were four reasons we went into the world war in the side of Britain?
Definition

1. Wilson was an anglophile

2. German submarine warfare

3. economic ties with Britain

4. prior tension with Germany

5. common heritage with Britain

6. Zimmerman telegram

7. British propaganda

Term
What were 4 underlying causes for our going to war with Spain?
Definition
1. Yellow Press 2. Sympathy for Cubans 3. We had interest in Cuba 4. Growing demand for intervention by Jingoists
Term
With respect to what country was the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty concerned?
Definition
Panama
Term
With respect to what country was the Hay-Paunceforte Treaty concerned?
Definition
Britain
Term
What did the Little Group of Willful Men oppose?
Definition
They did not want to enter WWI
Term
Name 4 Jingoes
Definition
1. Teddy Roosevelt
2. Alfred T Mahan
3. Beverage
4. Lodge
5. Hay
Term
Name 4 Googooes
Definition
1. Cleveland 2. Samuel Gompers 3. 4. Carl Shurz 5. Mark Twain
Term
What was Wilson watchfully waiting for?
Definition

a resolution to the coronza huerta dispute

 

Term
Whom did Wilson appoint to the War Labor Policy Board?
Definition
Felix Frankfurter
Term
What were three Geographic advantages the US had in foreign policy?
Definition
1. Two ocean coast
2. Geographically far from Europe
3. Week neighbors
Term
What were six traditional or Fundamental Foreign Policies in US history?
Definition

1. Isolation

2. freedom of seas

3. Monroe Doctrine

4. Pan Americanism

5. Open Door Policy

6. non-intervention in Europe

7. intervention in South America

8. Equal opportunity in Asia

Term
What did Carnegie, Gompers and Cleveland have in common?
Definition
They were all Googooes
Term
What proposal by Wilson enticed Germany to enter peace talks?
Definition
14 points
Term
Name four underlying causes of the Spanish-American War.
Definition
1. Hearst and Pulitzer - yellow journalism
2. Interest in Cuba – Ostend Manifesto failed
3. Cuban sympathies while they tried to revolt against the Spanish government
4. Jingoists and others urge us to go to war for religious reasons and because it is our duty to help them
Term
Name three immediate causes of the Spanish-American War.
Definition
1. Remember the Maine
2. De Lome letter- De Lome was a Spanish minister in Washington. The letter criticized McKinley
3. McKinley’s apparent war message
Term
What was the long range significance of the Spanish-American War?
Definition
1. We became a colonial empire over two oceans
2. We became a world power but they caused problems like in the Philippines with Aguinaldo.
3. We went from isolationism to imperialism
4. Treaty of Paris- we got Cuba (teller amendment), Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines
Term
What were 3 points the Supreme Court made in the Insular Cases?
Definition
1.The constitutional rights do not apply fully to overseas territories 2. Inhabitants only have rights that congress grants 3. Congress can impose an import tax on the duties in these lands
Term
Name three things the Open Door policy said
Definition
1. All nations in the sphere of influence need to respect the rights and privileges of other nations in the sphere.
2. The Chinese needs to continue to collect tariff duties
3. No nation in the sphere of influence can discriminate against another nation with regards to railroad rates and port dues.
4. Everybody gets tariff concessions
Term
What were four basic causes for US entry into WWI?
Definition
1. Anti German feeling in US
2. Common heritage with England an France (with the allies)
3. Fear of German expansion
4. Invasion of neutral Belgium
5. Zimmerman note
6. British propaganda
7. German sabotage
Term
What were three criticisms of the Versailles Peace Conference Process (includes any role from the time he left his delegation to go there to the time he went back to Washington)?
Definition
1. Wilson made it a partisan delegation
2. The fact that Wilson went - he was not a diplomat and very stubborn
3. Way too much compromising
4. Allowed secret treaties
5. Wilson was unprepared
Term
What were three reasons in Washington for opposition to the Versailles Treaty once Wilson got back?
Definition
1. Republican opposition to Wilson – he was to partisan
2. Opposition to the League of Nations
3. Lodge reservations
4. Some people thought it was too harsh
5. Some people thought it wasn’t harsh enough
Term
What were three indicators of isolationist tendencies arising in American policy as a result of WWI
Definition
1. Demobilization of the army
2. Rejected the treaty and the world court
3. Put higher tariffs back up
4. Restricted immigration
5. Neutrality acts (1935-37)
Term
What are four factors that have influenced American foreign policy regardless of what era?
Definition

1. Geographic position

2. Weak neighbors

3. Room for expansion

4. Hyphenated Americans

5. Mercantile and industrial people

6. Democracy

7. Primacy of domestic affairs

8. Europe distresses

Term
Name three separate foreign policies the US has followed at one time or another
Definition
1. Non-intervention in Europe
2. Intervention in Latin America
3. Cooperation in the Far East
4. Isolation
5. Freedom of the seas
6. Monroe doctrine
7. Pan American
8. Open door policy
9. Dollar diplomacy
Term
With respect to what country was "watchful waiting" applied and by whom?
Definition
1. Used by Wilson
2. In regard to Mexico and the Caranza, Villa, and Huerta regime.
Term
Name the pejorative term for pro-imperialists
Definition
Jingoes
Term
Name the pejorative term for anti-imperialists
Definition
googooes
Term
With what country did we have a Gentleman's Agreement and under whose presidency?
Definition
1. Japan 2. Teddy Roosevelt (it said that Japan will stop their immigrants from emigrated to U.S and California will stop discriminating against them.)
Term
To Whom was the Zimmerman note sent and what did it promise?
Definition
1. to Mexico
2. from Germany encouraging Mexico to go to war with US and Germany would get back lands such as Texas, which had been lost to the US
Term
What Senator wrote up a list of objections to the Versailles Treaty?
Definition
Henry Cabot Lodge
Term
Name three Latin American countries we got involved with other then Mexico
Definition

1. Dominican Republic

2. Nicaragua

3. Venezuela

4. Panama

5. Columbia

6. Haiti

7. Philippines

Term
From what country was Panama freed with US help and who was president at the time?
Definition
1. Columbia
2. Teddy Roosevelt
Term
What president was involved in the Venezuelan debt controversy?
Definition
Teddy Roosevelt
Term
What amendment put restrictions on Cuba's constitution after the Spanish-American War?
Definition
Plat Amendment (the Teller amendment was before the war)
Term
What President's administration saw the annexation of Hawaii?
Definition
McKinley's
Term
what did the insular case decide?
Definition
Constitution does not follow the flag
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