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German Proclamation
delegation from the parlament of northern germany, later selected reps of defeted France -
sinking of the u.s.s marine
someone blew up the us battleship and caused the death of 260 men and lead to the spanish american war , yellow journalism -
acquisision of Hawaii
Hawaii was annexted and the u.s set up governtment and standford dole became govener, sugar and pineaple plantations were created by american settlers -
Spanish american war
spain gained control of cuba in 189 cubans called for war the u.s send battleships to protect and it got blown up and the u.s blamed spain so spain declared war on the u.s and war began -
open door policy
gave equal trading rights to the nations so they could all trade with china, this opened up asian markets to the u.s businesses -
Panama Canal
panama declaired independence on nov 3 1903 so right after that a french engierrer they the "Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty allowing the us to get a 10 mile strip of land
This allowed us to have a connection from the pacific to the atlantic ocean , and allowed our travel time to decrease. -
Roosevelt Corollary
This was a addition to the monroe doctrine, this banned the european countries from collecting their money by force from Latin america. This happened in 1904 in the month of december, Roosevelt was involved in this and said he would "speak softly and carry a big stick". -
Dollar Diplomacy
started under president william taft , encouraged U.S banks to give loans to carribean countries and if they didnt pay the u.s would send in troops -
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand
ferdinand was killed by Gavrillo Princip of serbia -
Start of WW1
The Central Powers vs the Allied Powers
central = Austria Hungary , Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman empire
Allied = Serbia , Russia , Italy, Great Britian , France, and eventually the United States -
sinking of the Lusitinia
germany u-boats torpedo the lusisinia , more than 120 americans died, -
sussex pledge
germany promised that they wouldnt sink merchant ships without warning -
zimmerman telegraph
germany send a message to mexico inviting them to join them in the war and be with them in return for texas, new mexico and arizona but the british got the messsage first and this fired up the u.s -
u.s enters the war
the u.s had had enough of germany so they finally joined into the war , very late but they joined -
selective service act
young men were enlisted to join the army and they got drafted -
Espionage Act
u.s didnt want anyone to be a sky for the other countries
this was passsed because they wanted to stop the spread of communism and for silence. -
wilsons 14 points
the legue of nations,
but congress didnt agree because that would put them to automatically join war if an allie got into a war -
Battle of Argonne Forest
Fought near the Meuse River in France
It was fought by the general Persing and the AEF
this led to armistice which means end of the war -
end of ww1
the war was finally over and germany lost and had to pay up , the 14 points were made to set peace and colonial possesions were given to the allies
