HISTORY 128
GROWTH OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II
Van Ells, Fall 2008

WEEKS 7-8 HANDOUT:

AMERICA'S RISE
TO WORLD POWER
World War I recruiting poster

OUTLINE:

I.  ORIGINS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
A.  America and the world before 1898
B.  Reasons for expansionism
C.  Acquiring an empire
II.  WORLD WAR I
A.  Outbreak of World War I
B.  America and the war
C.  German provocation and American entry
D.  The "Home Front"
III.  ARMISTICE AND THE TROUBLED PEACE
A.  The End of the war
B.  The Versailles Treaty
C.  The Red Scare

KEY TERMS:
Alfred Thayer Mahan, yellow journalism, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish-American War (1898), Roosevelt Corollary, Great White Fleet, Emilio Aguinaldo, Open Door, Boxers, Central Powers, U-boats, Lusitania, Zimmermann Telegram, Selective Service Act, War Industries Board, George Creel, Espionage Act, Sedition Amendment, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment, Bolsheviks, Fourteen Points, Versailles Treaty, League of Nations, Red Scare.

KEY DEFINITION:
Imperialism: The practice by which more powerful nations seek to extend and maintain control or influence over weaker nations.