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Acquisition of Hawaii
The U.S, annexed Hawaii as a territory.
It later became its own state and was governed by Sanford Dole -
Sinking of the USS Maine
The battleshi Maine suddenly blew up in the Havana Harbour.
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Spanish American War
After the USS Maine was mysteriously blown up the US and Spain went to war and the US passed an amendment that said once they won Cuba would be independent.
The US helped Cuba become independent and since winning this war they seemed more powerful to other countries. -
Open Door Policy
All countries have trading rights in China.
Used to open Asian markets to the U.S. -
Roosevelt Corollary
Banned European countries from using force to collect debt in Latin American countries.
Theodore Roosevelt
The U.S. would act as an international police power. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Country's financial power to extend its international influence.
President Taft
Encourage investing in Caribbean countries -
Panama Canal
Man-made water way.
It is used for trading and transportation and cut the time and money it took to travel all around.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Beginning of the WW1
Archduke Frnaz Ferdinand was assassinated.
Woodrow Wilson
Because of the assassination of the archduke, european military powers decided to begin a war -
German Proclamation
German Admiralty issued a formal declaration which warned neutral shipping to stay away from the waters surrounding Britain and Ireland from 18 February 1915 onwards on pain of sinking. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
British passenger ship was torpedoed & sunk by a German submarine killing more than 120 Americans. -
Sussex Pledge
A promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States. Germany promises to not sink merchant ships.
Germany & U.S. -
Failure of Diplomacy
Unrestricted submaine warfare continues
Germany resumes U boat attacks on the U.S. -
Zimmerman Telegram
British intellegience intercepts the zimmerman telegram which revealed Germany's plan to ask the Mexican Gov to attack the U.S. in exchange for TX, NM, & AZ -
U.S. enters WW1
Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, and, in February 1915, Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. -
Selective Service Act
Gov has power to draft soldiers
Required all men in the US between 21-30 to register for the military
Within a few months some 10 million men registered across the country in response to the military draft. -
Espionage Act
Law intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of U.S. enemies during wartime. -
Wilson's fourteen points
Adressed to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
Was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. -
Alvin York
one of the most decorated soldiers of the United States Army in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 20 German soldiers, and capturing 132 others. This made Germany surrender. -
End of WW1
Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. Germany was poor which led to poor equipment and this was a disadvantage. -
Ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
Woodrow Wilson appears personally before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to argue in favor of its ratification of the Versailles Treaty, the peace settlement that ended the First World War.
