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Acquisition of Hawaii
-the u.s overthre hawaii's queen in 1893 and annexed it as a territoiry in 1898
-sandford dole become governor
-sugar planations abd pineapples plantations were created by us settlers
-hawii because a state in 1959 -
Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
-The United States battleship was blown up in an explosion which killed 260 men on board on February 15th, 1898.
-The Maine had been showing the flag in Cuba, where the Spanish regime was resisting an armed uprising by nationalist guerrillas - See more at: http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/sinking-maine#sthash.rdHQFkhT.dpuf -
Spanish-American War
-the war between the U.S. and Spain in 1898
-as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902 -
Philippines
-The war's first major battle was fought in Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, 1898.
-decided to maintain control of the Philippines until the war was over. The U.S. Army assembled an expedition to join Dewey and help him take the city of Manila. -
Guam
When Anderson left San Francisco, he had twenty-five hundred troops When the expedition stopped in Honolulu, Hawaii, to get coal for its engines, the Charleston joined it for the voyage. By then, Captain Henry Glass of the Charleston had received orders to seize Guam on his way to the Philippines -
Open Door Policy
-policy that gave equal tradin rights to all foreign nations in china
-used to open asain markets to u.s businesses -
Dollar Diplomacy 1903-13
-Started under president Taft
-Encouraged u.s banks to invest ( give loans) to carribean countries
-if a country couldn't repay oans, teh u.s would send in troops
-Ex: u.s marines were sent ti Nicaragua when it couldn;t pay
- extension to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine -
Roosevelt Corollary
Statement by president Theodore Roosevelt , whoch were adaptions to the monroe doctrine said tht european efforstd to colonize or interfere in north or south america would be viwed as aggression.
Stated the u.s would act as an "international police power" and collect debts for them
Became known as "BIG STICK POLICY" walk softly and carry a big stick -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo
- The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August
-five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand’s death, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially marking the end of World War I. -
Start of WWI
-A war fought from 1914 to 1918, in which Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the United States, and other allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria.
- the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on Nov. 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. -
Panama Canal
The U.S wanted land in Panama to build a canal so that travel between the east and west U.S coast would decrease.
U.S bought land and supported a revoultion to get the 10 mile strip of land.
Finished in 1914 after much hardship the panamal canal is still a trading transportation hub for the world.
One of the most Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives was the establishment of the Panama Canal. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
-a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
-Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans -
German Proclamation
-In his proclamation von Graevenitz announced that selected men and women living in Lille were to be deported to surrounding areas for the purpose of working in the countryside. -In order to relieve the distress, the German Government has recently asked for volunteers to go to work in the country. This was not successful -
Sussex Pledge
-was a promise given by the German Government to the United States of America on May 4th 1916 in response to US demands relating to the conduct of the First World War
-Germany promised to alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships. -
Zimmerman Telegram
a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America -
U.S. Enters WWI
-The United States' entry into World War I came in April 1917, after two and a half years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States neutral during World War I. Americans had no idea that war was imminent in Europe in the summer of 1914, and tens of thousands of tourists were caught by surprise -
Selective Service Act Passed
-The Selective Service Act, aka Selective Draft Act, was enacted on May 18, 1917 requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with locally administered draft boards for military conscription by national lottery. The age limits for the draft were later extended to include all men from ages 18 to 45. President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly accepted the recommendation for the new draft -
Espionage Act
--The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime. -
Wilson's 14 Points
-Fourteen Points is a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I, elucidated in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. -
Battle of Argonne
-The Battle of the Argonne Forest was part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive planned by General Ferdinand Foch
-The offensive called for a three-pronged attack on the Germans at the Western Front.
September 26, 1918 – November 11, 1918 -
End of WWI
-Treaty of Versailles Germany was blamed and made to pay reparations A League of Nations was created.
-Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war
