https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri Scroll down each column in order to view all terms. en-us 2018-01-19 19:59:54 UTC 2018-01-21 17:14:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222938610 A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. 

]]> 2018-01-19 20:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222938610 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222939511 A protectorate, in its inception adopted by modern international law, is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy and some independence while still retaining the suzerainty of a greater sovereign state.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222939511 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222940648 The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222940648 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222941119 The term social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222941119 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222941679 The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222941679 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222942118 Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a US term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222942118 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222943489 Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222943489 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222944361 he Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the powerful United States Navy battle fleet that completed a journey around the globe from 16 December 1907, to 22 February 1909, by order of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222944361 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222944727 A term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222944727 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222945444 A Chinese anti-imperial and anti-foreigner rebel of the early 1900's.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222945444 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222945795 The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222945795 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222946182 Addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt.

]]> 2018-01-19 20:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222946182 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222946528  The policy that refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."

]]> 2018-01-19 20:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/222946528 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223116195 Moral Diplomacy is the system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are analogous to that of the nation. 

]]> 2018-01-21 16:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223116195 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117198 The narrow land bridge between North and South America houses the Panama Canal, a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117198 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117538 A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117538 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117680 Propaganda is the spreading of information in support of a cause.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117680 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117841 A British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915

]]> 2018-01-21 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223117841 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118042 Militarism is a belief that a strong military force should be maintained and used aggressively to defend or promote national interests. 

]]> 2018-01-21 16:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118042 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118310 A formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes. 

]]> 2018-01-21 16:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118310 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118477 The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118477 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118658  A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118658 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118813 The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department and the Navy Department.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223118813 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119173 Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food-gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb-gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. 

]]> 2018-01-21 16:44:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119173 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119398 A type of bond issued by the U.S. government during World War I. Liberty bonds were introduced as a means of financing the war effort in Europe.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119398 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119667 The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. 

]]> 2018-01-21 16:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119667 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119861 The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223119861 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120092 The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120092 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120359 The Platt Amendment, an amendment to a U.S. army appropriations bill, established the terms under which the United States would end its military occupation of Cuba.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120359 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120643 The Sedition Act of 1918  was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120643 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120979  In the Senate, he sponsored the unsuccessful Lodge Bill, which sought to protect the voting rights of African Americans.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223120979 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223121238 When Liliuokalani acted to restore these powers, a U.S. military-backed coup deposed her in 1893 and formed a provisional government; Hawaii was declared a republic in 1894.

]]> 2018-01-21 16:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223121238 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223121455 Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.

]]> 2018-01-21 17:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223121455 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223121770 Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890's used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers--a style that became known as yellow journalism.

]]> 2018-01-21 17:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223121770 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122027 Publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst built his media empire after inheriting the San Francisco Examiner from his father. He challenged New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer by buying the rival New York Journal, earning attention for his “yellow journalism.”

]]> 2018-01-21 17:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122027 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122189 Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He resigned in 1898 to organize the Rough Riders, the first voluntary cavalry in the Spanish-American War. The U.S. was fighting against Spain over Spain's colonial policies with Cuba. 

]]> 2018-01-21 17:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122189 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122528 McKinley hoped to persuade Spain to grant independence to rebellious Cuba without conflict, but when negotiation failed, he led the nation into the Spanish–American War of 1898; the U.S. victory was quick and decisive.

]]> 2018-01-21 17:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122528 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122682 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I. An advocate for democracy and world peace, Wilson is often ranked by historians as one of the nation's greatest presidents.

]]> 2018-01-21 17:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223122682 adrianh2511 https://padlet.com/adrianh2511/1r7cdl72a7ri/wish/223123057 In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I,Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.

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