Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.10: Emergence of the Americas in global affairs (1880–1929) Questions
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Which naval strategist's 1890 theory of sea power directly influenced US expansion into the Caribbean and Pacific?
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What event in February 1898 became the immediate rallying cry for US entry into war with Spain?
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Which US president's foreign policy was based mainly on encouraging American banks and companies to invest in Latin American economies?
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Choose the event that directly led the United States to break off diplomatic relations with Germany in early 1917.
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Choose the approximate number of Canadian deaths in the First World War.
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Examine the reasons for the United States' turn towards an expansionist foreign policy in the period 1880-1898.
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Choose the country that the Zimmermann Telegram proposed as a potential ally for Germany against the United States.
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In 1916, Woodrow Wilson sent General Pershing's expedition into which country in pursuit of Pancho Villa?
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Under the Platt Amendment of 1901, which right did the United States gain over Cuba?
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Choose the month and year in which Brazil declared war on Germany.
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Choose the article of the League of Nations Covenant that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and the Irreconcilables most strongly opposed.
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Evaluate the impact of the sinking of the USS Maine on the outbreak of the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Discuss the consequences of the Spanish-American War (1898) for the territories the United States acquired.
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To what extent was Alfred Thayer Mahan's naval theory responsible for the United States' expansion into the Caribbean and the Pacific between 1890 and 1914?
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Compare and contrast Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick policy and William Howard Taft's Dollar Diplomacy as methods of asserting US control over Latin America.
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To what extent did Woodrow Wilson's Moral Diplomacy represent a genuine break from the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors?
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Analyse the reasons for, and the significance of, the United States' construction of the Panama Canal.
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Discuss the view that economic self-interest, rather than moral or ideological principle, was the primary driver of US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean, 1898-1921.
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Examine the role of the press and public opinion in driving the United States towards war with Spain in 1898.
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Evaluate the successes and limitations of the Anti-Imperialist League's opposition to US overseas expansion after 1898.
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