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AH2 Midterm Stack #2
Term | Definition |
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labor union | An organization of workers that join together to make needed changes |
Theodore Roosevelt | The progressive president that was known as the “Trustbuster” |
muckrakers | Journalists that wrote about the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution |
monoply | Control over a certain good or industry |
Open Door Policy | Late 1800's policy that was meant to open China to free trade |
Spanish-American War | "A splendid little war" that lasted only three months; as a result of this war, the U.S. possession of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines |
Dollar Diplomacy | A type of diplomacy that used foreign investment to promote American interests |
Moral Diplomacy | A type of diplomacy that aimed to spread democracy and the American way of life to other countries |
Causes of World War I | Militarism, Alliances, and Nationalism |
Archduke Ferdinand | His assassination was the final spark that started World War I |
Triple Entente | Russia, France, and Great Britain; a.k.a. the Allied Powers |
Zimmerman Telegram | Telegram that brought the U.S. out of neutrality by revealing that Germany would attack ships carrying innocent civilians |
League of Nations | This organization was part of President Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” and was intended to keep the peace after WWI |
Roaring Twenties | One of the nicknames for the 1920's; refers to the excitement of the decade |
consumerism | A type of customer spending that really took hold in the 1920's |