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History Mid-Term
History Mid-Term Review '09
Question | Answer |
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What is capitalism? | The economic system that allowed for businesses to make huge profits by producing and selling goods to consumer. [Doing business] |
What is the Platt Amendment? | It stated that Cuba needed U.S. approval before it could deal with another country. |
What is the Roosevelt Corollary? | When Roosevelt decided to help Panama gain independence from Columbia, so he could connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. He believed the U.S. needed to take a stronger roll in protecting [and controlling] Latin America. |
Name three aspects of the 1920's that helped define the decade. | New technologies [car, radio, talkies], modern fashion, and new music. |
What were the three American causes for entering World War 1 in 1917? | Freedom of the seas [unrestricted submarine warfare], money back for their loans, and the Zimmerman Telegram. |
What was the Committee of Public Information? | It had to convince people to support the war by using propaganda. |
What was the League of Nations? | It set up to keep world peace, it came from Wilson's Fourteen Points which wanted to gain U.S. input into Europe. |