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Mexico
Texas gains it's independence from Mexico, but the United States wouldn't recognize it in the Union. -
Spanish-American War
The Cuban colonists revolted against the Spanish, who controlled their island. -
World War 1
France forced to sign humiliating treaty with Germany that ends the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War. -
Hawaii
Hawaii Reciprocity Treaty had opened up trade with the United States. Friendship was affirmed between the two nations, and American ships were admitted into the ports for trading purposes. -
Hawaii
new constitution in hawaii has become imperative in order to restore order and tranquility and the confidence necessary to a further maintenance of the present Government that a new Constitution should be at one promulgated -
World War 1
After his father's untimely death, 29 year-old Wilhelm II becomes ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany. -
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Wrote the book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, that described the history of naval warfare between 1660 and 1783. The book secured international markets and cleared up the role of sea power. -
China
The "old navy" of wooden ships distributed to distant stations gave way in the late nineteenth century to the "new navy" of steel that operated in a world of great powers competing for empire. Men of the new navy strove to build fleets sufficiently powerful to guarantee the United States control of the sea within an American sphere that eventually embraced most of the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific. -
Hawaii
annexing hawaii, the planters staged an uprising to overthrow the Queen. At the same time, they appealed to the United States armed forces for protection. Without Presidential approval, marines stormed the islands, and the American minister to the islands raised the stars and stripes in HONOLULU -
World War 1
Nicolas is crowned Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a position he did not want. Germany and Russia do not renew a friendship treaty and begin their adversary relationship. -
Spanish-American War
The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain. Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational newspapers, and American sympathy for the rebels rose. -
Alaska
The Klondike Gold Rush was an event of migration by an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada. Gold was discovered in many rich deposits along the Klondike River, but due to the remoteness of the region and the harsh winter climate the news of gold couldn’t travel fast enough to reach the outside world before the following year. Reports of the gold in newspapers created a hysteria that was nation-wide and many people quit their jobs -
Spanish-American War
The elusive Spanish Caribbean fleet under Adm. Pascual Cervera was located in Santiago harbour in Cuba by U.S. reconnaissance. An army of regular troops and volunteers landed on the coast east of Santiago and slowly advanced on the city in an effort to force Cervera’s fleet out of the harbour. -
Spanish-American War
The growing popular demand for U.S. intervention became an insistent chorus after the unexplained sinking in Havana harbour of the battleship USS Maine which had been sent to protect U.S. citizens and property after anti-Spanish rioting in Havana. -
Spanish-American War
Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines -
Spanish-American War
U.S. forces defeat the Spanish at the Battle of San Juan Heights. U.S. forces destroy the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba. The Spanish surrender at Santiago. -
Spanish-American War
George Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines, and destroyed the anchored Spanish fleet in a leisurely morning engagement that cost only seven American seamen wounded. Manila itself was occupied by U.S. troops by August. -
Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt leads ¨Rough Riders¨ Roosevelt resigned his position in the Naval Department to lead the "Rough Riders" up San Juan Hil. -
Spanish-American War
By the Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists. -
Philippine-American War
Fighting broke out in the Philippines on the night after an American patrol shot a Filipino guerrilla. -
China
Open Door Policy in China with Great Britain france germany russia and japan as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door -
World War 1
nationalism, Larger countries wave flags and Smaller countries taking a stand -
World War 1
Great Britain's Queen Victoria, whose bloodline runs through most of the ruling houses of Europe, dies. -
Philippine-American War
Aguinaldo was captured at a secret headquarters in northern Luzon and soon swore allegiance to the American regime. He said he realised that the majority of Filipinos wanted peace, and he was 'confident that under the protection of the American people we would enjoy all the liberties promised to us. -
Japan
The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
This treaty was signed by Britain and Japan, and it ended the unequal treaties and the system of extraterritoriality in Japan. -
Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt displayed his policy during the Venezula crisis when he amended the Monroe Doctrine to read that the U.S. would get involved with the affairs of its Latin American neighbors if they defaulted on its debt to Europe. -
Panamal Canal
United States government sponsored a canal project across Central America. Colombia was forced to concede to Panama's independence. Panama also received an annual payment of $250,000, and a guarantee of national independence. The United States, on the other hand, gained the rights to the canal strip "in perpetuity. " Roosevelt later said that he "took the Canal, and let Congress debate" the matter after the event. -
World War 1
Militeralism, Preparing for war, Glorification of war -
Dollar Diplomacy
form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Panama Canal
construction proper began. In one of the largest construction projects of all time, U.S. engineers moved nearly 240 million cubic yards of earth constructing the 40-mile-long canal. On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was opened to traffic. -
World War 1
Assassination of the archduke, set it off and bomb blows up citizens instead of archduke but he was later shot. -
Mexico
The mexican bandit pancho villa and his men killed American mining engineers, they hoped to provoke a war between U.S. and Mexico -
Red Scare
the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. Communists were often referred to as “Reds” for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag. Led to a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society. Federal employees were analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government.
