Identify the events and people central to the transformation of the United States into a world power. (Government, Geography)
Videos:
Richard Harding Davis, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Spanish-American War (GL)
Footage of the Spanish-American War and McKinley's Funeral (GL)
Spanish-American War (GL)
The Emerging Imperialist Nation (GL)
A World Power (GL)
The Spanish Civil War: Politically Committed Journalism (GL)
The Spanish-American War Begins (GL)
Determined (GL)
Gilded Age (GL)
The Gilded Age (GL)
Innovations of the Gilded Age (GL)
African Americans in the Gilded Age (GL)
Gilded Politics (GL)
Seeking Reform (GL)
Glory of Possession (GL)
American and Spanish Expansionism at the Turn of the Century (GL)
Imperialism (GL)
Diplomacy of Imperialism (GL)
Evaluating the Effects of Colonialism and Imperialism (GL)
Imperialism Takes Control (GL)
Three Periods of Imperialism: Modern (GL)
Foreign Policy (GL)
The Panama Canal (GL)
Looking to Foreign Lands (GL)
China: The Open Door Policy (GL)
The Alliance System (GL)
Crisis in the Balkans (GL)
A Killing Ground: The Battle at Verdun (GL)
The Story of the USS Maine (GL)
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (GL)
Cuba & the Spanish-American War (GL)
1918: Americans Arrive Just in Time (GL)
Modern Warfare Changes the World: Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (GL)
Germany's Naval Battles: The Sinking of the Lusitania (GL)
Caught in the Middle (GL)
The Great War (GL)
World War I: A New Kind of War (GL)
Policies of World War One (GL)
The United States and World War I (GL)
World War I: Journalists Tell the Official Story (GL)
Life During and After World War I (GL)
World War I, Tanks, and the Tractor (GL)
Progressivism (GL)
Progressives' Programs (GL)
The Jungle: A View of Industrial America (GL)
THE JUNGLE BY UPTON SINCLAIR (GL)
Roosevelt and Corporations (GL)
The Sherman Antitrust Act (GL)
Heroes of World War I: John J. Pershing: General of the Armies
The Story of the USS Maine (GL)
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson: Scholar, Reformer, and Father of the United Nations
The Battle of the Somme - July 1, 1916
Roosevelt and Corporations (GL)
Images:
The U.S.S. Olympia in Manila Bay in 1898.
The Maine explosion, February 1898.
Remains of the battleship Maine in Havana, Cuba
African-American soldiers in Cuba.
Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.
The San Francisco Daily Examiner.
Pulitzer and Hearst in conflict over Cuba.
A German view of British imperialism in 1915.
Leopold II reigned in Belgium 1865-1909.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
The Mahdi of the Sudan (1843-1885).
The "Great White Fleet" in Australia.
Crowds celebrate SF arrival of Great White Fleet.
Map: alliances in World War I, 1914.
Map: the Western Front, 1914.
William Randolph Hearst, built publishing empire.
George Hearst, mine owner, publisher, senator.
The San Francisco Daily Examiner.
U .S. soldiers in Cuba, 1898.
Map: the Armistice lines in Europe, November 1918.
Turkish infantry unit at rest during World War I.
Map showing alliances & WWI boundaries in Europe.
German submarine that sank the Lusitania.
Torpedoing of the Lusitania.
An ad urging the U.S. to enter World War I.
World War I soldiers on a train at Salinas.
A World War I navy recruiting poster.
Adolf Hitler as a World War I corporal.
World War I 4-stacker destroyers at Philadelphia.
German World War I propaganda flier.
The Arc de Triomphe.
The Graf Zeppelin over Germany, 1928.
LA journalist Noah Thompson, 1920s UNIA president.
Map: East Asia in WWI.
A gas warning poster.
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926).
Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944).
Upton Sinclair and His Son
McClure's Magazine.
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914).
General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing.
The American Expeditionary Force: Doughboys
Woodrow Wilson delivering his War Message.
Articles:
Spanish-American War
Garcia Iniquez, Calixto
Manila Bay, Battle of
McKinley, William
Santiago, Battle of
Panama Canal
Goethals, George Washington
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Open Door Policy
U.S. Secretary of State John Hay (1838-1905).
Panama Canal Zone
Richard Sears, co-founder of Sears & Roebuck.
Hearst, William Randolph
Central Powers
Lusitania (ship)
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Havana
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Fourteen Points
Verdun, Battle of
Hay, John Milton
Audio:
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: The Reform Spirit
The Causes of World War I: Nationalism & War The Causes of World War I: Imperialism & Alliances
The Causes of World War I: Tensions Explode
African American History: World War I & the African American
The Causes of World War I: Imperialism
The Causes of World War I: Events Leading Up to World War I
U.S. Government: The First 200 Years: The Reform Spirit
Writing Prompt:
Favorite Magazines and Newspapers
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Concepts
Annexation
Canal
Naval Power
Coaling Stations
World Power
Great Power
Yellow Journalism
Jingoism
Imperialism
Spheres of Influence
The Open Door
European Powers (Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, & Russia)
Mass Circulation Magazines
Alliance System
People/Places/
Ideas/Things/Events
Spanish-American War
World War I
William McKinley
Hearst Publishing Empire
Wm Randolph Hearst
Philippines
Cuba
Central Powers
Allies
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegraph
U-Boat
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Battle of Somme
Batt le of Verdun
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Transformation
World Power
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Compare and contrast United States foreign policy and international influence during the Gilded Age and after the American victory in the Spanish-American War.
Identify the events in American history that created the contrasts between US foreign policy and international influence during the Gilded Age and the post- Spanish-American War eras.
Analyze the impact of:
Cleveland’s demand to arbitrate British
Border Claims in South America
American Sea Power (The G. White
Fleet)
Victory in the Spanish-American
War
Completion and operation of the
Panama Canal by the US
Acquisition of American colonies
Expansion of US world trade
Annexation of Hawaii on how the US was viewed by the European Great Powers and Japan.
Compare & Contrast reasons for the US avoiding entering World War I early in the war
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