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MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR (Mexico)
War between the United States and Mexico was caused by United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). -
Battle of Palo Alto (Mexico)
Battle of Palo Alto was the first clash in the Mexican War, fought at a small site in southeastern Texas about 9 miles northeast of Matamoros, Mex. Mexican troops had crossed the Rio Grande to besiege Fort Brown and to threaten General Zachary Taylor’s supply centre. -
Chinese Exclusion Act (China)
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History (Alfred)
In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. -
First Sino-Japanese War (China)
First Sino-Japanese War, conflict between Japan and China in 1894–95 that marked the emergence of Japan as a major world power and demonstrated the weakness of the Chinese empire. Japan had adopted western technology while China had not. -
Klondlike Gold Rush (Alaska)
The Klondike Gold Rush, often called the Yukon Gold Rush, was a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered there in 1896 -
Battle of Guantánamo Bay (Spanish-America)
The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was fought from June 6 to June 10 in 1898, during the Spanish–American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. -
The Battle of Cienfuegos (Spanish-American War)
The Battle of Cienfuegos, was an engagement of the Spanish–American War, intended by the United States Navy to tighten its blockade of Cuba -
The Battle of Nipe Bay (SA)
Was an engagement of the Spanish-American War. The battle was fought in Nipe Bay, Cuba, by four United States Navy warships against the Spanish sloop-of-war Jorge Juan and three gunboats which were supported by forts guarding the harbor.more on Wikipedia -
Battle of Rio Manimani (SA)
The Battle of the Manimani, was a failed American landing attempt west of Havana and was one of the final engagements of the Spanish–American War in Cuba -
Battle of San Juan Hill (SA)
The Battle of San Juan Hill (July 1, 1898), also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights, was a decisive battle of the Spanish–American War. The San Juan heights was a north-south running elevation about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. -
William McKinley (Spanish American War)
President William McKinley asks Congress to declare war on Spain on this day in 1898. In 1895, Cuba, located less than 100 miles south of the United States, attempted to overthrow Spanish colonial rule. -
Annexation of Hawaii (Hawaii)
Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor. -
TREATY OF PARIS (SA)
This treaty officially ended the Spanish-American War. The once-proud Spanish empire was virtually dissolved as the United States took over much of Spain’s overseas holdings. Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the United States, the Philippines were bought for $20 million, and Cuba became a U.S. protectorate. -
(SA) US Battleship Maine is blown up
On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members. The episode escalated tensions between the United States and Spain and contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War two months later. -
Philippine-American War
This war was fought to quell Filipino resistance to American control of the Philippine Islands. Filipino guerrilla soldiers finally gave up when their leader, Emilio Aguinaldo, was captured. -
BIG STICK DIPLOMACY
This diplomacy was designed to showcase America's naval strength, make diplomatic contact, establish goodwill, and to perform humanitarian roles where possible. They were done peacefully, but the ability to retaliate was clear too. -
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Big Stick)
His saying "speak softly and carry a big stick" was created by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to create the Big Stick Diplomacy. It allowed him to symbolically project American power without actually having to use force. It defined his leadership. -
Anglo-Japanese Alliance (Japan)
This was an alliance that bound Britain and Japan to assist one another in safeguarding their respective interests in China and Korea. Directed against Russian expansionism in the Far East, it was a cornerstone of British and Japanese policy in Asia until after World War I. -
PANAMA CANAL
The canal allowed ships to travel between the two oceans more safely and in half the time and was overseen by President Roosevelt. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. -
John Frank Stevens (Panama Canal)
Stevens was selected to be the chief engineer for the Panama Canal project. He was an instrumental in persuading President Theodore Roosevelt to build the canal with locks, this in the face of opposition from skeptics who preferred a sea-level canal which would have required much more extensive excavation. In 1907 he returned to railroad work -
Dollar Diplomacy
Foreign policy created by U.S. Pres. William Howard Taft and his secretary of state, Philander C. Knox, to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interests there. -
FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNE (WWI)
At the start of the First World War, Germany hoped to avoid fighting on two fronts by knocking out France before turning to Russia. The initial German offensive didn't have enough reinforcements available to sustain momentum. The French and British launched a counter-offensive at the Marne and after several days of bitter fighting the Germans retreated. -
GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN (WWI)
The Gallipoli campaign was the land-based element of a strategy intended to allow Allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles, capture Constantinople and ultimately knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war. But Allied plans were based on the mistaken belief that the Ottomans could be easily overcome. -
Battle of Jutland (WWI)
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of the First World War. It was the only time that the British and German fleets of 'dreadnought' battleships actually came to blows. -
BATTLE OF VERDUN (WWI)
The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of the First World War. It was also one of the costliest. It began in February with a German attack on the fortified French town of Verdun, where bitter fighting would continue for most of the year. -
BATTLE OF THE SOMME (WWI)
The Battle of the Somme was a joint operation between British and French forces intended to achieve a decisive victory over the Germans on the Western Front. For many in Britain, the resulting battle remains the most painful and infamous episode of the First World War. -
BRUSILOV OFFENSIVE (WWI)
The Russian Army had suffered a series of crushing defeats in the first year of the war, but the Brusilov Offensive would be the most successful Russian offensive – and one of the most successful breakthrough operations – of the First World War. -
BATTLE OF AMIENS (WWI)
The Battle of Amiens heralded the start of the Hundred Days campaign, a four-month period of Allied success. -
Pearl Harbor is built (Hawaii)
Pearl Harbor, naval base and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Honolulu county, southern Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S. Pearl Harbor centres on a cloverleaf-shaped, artificially improved harbour on the southern coast of Oahu, 6 miles (10 km) west of Honolulu. The harbour is virtually surrounded (west to east) by the cities of Ewa, Waipahu, Pearl City, Aiea, and Honolulu. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing (Hawaii)
On the morning of December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. The surprise attack destroyed nearly 20 vessels, killed more than 2,000 American soldiers and propelled the United States into World War II. -
Manila campaign (Philippine-American War)
It was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944-45, during the Second World War. It was fought by American and Filipino forces against Japanese troops in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. -
RED SCARE
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare.
