Unit - 7 (1890-1945)

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    Unit 7 (1890-1945)

  • Alfred Thayer Mahan

    Alfred Thayer Mahan
    Mahan publishes lecture : The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783
  • China

    The Sino-Japanese War betrween China and Japan began.
  • China

    The Sino-Japanese War was ended by the Treaty of Shimoneski, Japan emerged as a power while China weakened
  • Hawaii : Annexation

    Hawaii : Annexation
    Hawaii was annexed by the U.S in 1898.
  • Spanish American War: Sinking of USS Maine

    Spanish American War: Sinking of USS Maine
    The battleship USS Maine was sunk by Spain.
  • Spanish American War : Beginning

    Spanish American War : Beginning
    The Spanish American war began. Spain declared war on the 24th followed by the U.S's declaration on the 25th. The retroactive date was April 21st.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    Commander George Dewey destroyed Spanish fleet on Manila Bay in the Phillipines.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    Battle of Las Guasimas
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    Spain surrenders at the Battle of Santiago
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    U.S Army invades Puerto Rico
  • Spanish American War Ended

    Spanish American War Ended
    The Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish American War.
  • Philippine American War Begins

    Philippine American War Begins
    The Philippine American War between America and Filipino revolutionaries began.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    U.S ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
  • Hawaii

    Hawaii
    Hawaii gained ful territorial status in 1900
  • Big Stick Diplomacy

    Big Stick Diplomacy
    President Roosevelt quoted "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
  • Alaska : Railroad

    Alaska : Railroad
    The Alaska Railroad was built in 1902, which connected Seward to Fairbanks
  • Philippine American War Ends

    Philippine American War Ends
    The Philippine American War was declared "over" by president Theodore Roosevelt
  • Big Stick Diplomacy

    Big Stick Diplomacy
    Roosevelt practiced the Big Stick Diplomacy in the foreign affair involving Venezuela.
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    The construction of the Panama Canal began
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy
    Foreign policy aimed at ensuring financial stability of a regionn while protecting and extending U.S commercial and financial interests there, under President Taft
  • Mexico

    Mexico
    The Mexican Revolution began
  • World War One

    World War One
    World War began due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    The Panama Canal opened after 10 years of construction
  • World War One

    World War One
    Italy joins Germany and Austria-Hungary, forming the "Triple Aliance"
  • World War One

    World War One
    The British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by German U-Boats; New York to Liverpool, England
  • Mexico

    Mexico
    Mexico gets a new constitution brought forth by Carranza
  • World War One

    World War One
    The U.S enters WWI with allies France, Britian, and Russia
  • World War One

    World War One
    Russia exits the war through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
  • World War One

    World War One
    The treaty of Versailles is signed
  • World War One

    World War One
    World War One ends as Germany and the allies signs an armistice
  • Japan

    Japan
    Japan launched an invasion on Manchuria after Mukden Incident
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    Period of time when there was fear in the U.S posed by the threat of Communism
  • Hawaii : Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese attacked the U.S at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.