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U.S. forces participate in international rescue in Peking
it was an eight-nation alliance to send troops in to stop the killing of citizens.it was also formed to help protect china from japan.this was broken by WW1 -
protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention
the US put troops in Cuba to help from invasions from other countries. Cube army was weak after the Spanish-American war. -
big stick diplomacy
Teddy Roosevelt’s policy in dealing with other countries in 1904 was “ speak softly and carry a big stick.”. He was trying to show other countries the power of the United States. He toured the world with the US Navy and was stopping in ports around the world. This idea came from the concept of Realpolitik or an idea of Machiavelli . This is what is also called “gunboat diplomacy. -
a standoff between U.S. and Huerta
assassinations of President Francisco Madero and Vice President José Pino Suárez Once they heard the news many Mexicans called Huerta the Usurper. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal cost Americans around $375,000,000, including the $10,000,000 paid to Panama and the $40,000,000 paid to the French company. It was the single most expensive construction project in United States history to that time. the US gave it back spe. 7 1977. we made if so ships wouldt have to go under south America -
RMS Lusitania sinking
it was sunk by a german u-bout. It was off the coast of Ireland. 1198 of the 1959 people aboard killed, leaving 761 survivors. Turned international opinion against Germany. -
Pancho Villa raid
angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant born revolutionary leader Pancho Villa attacks the border town of Columbus New Mexico -
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany sent a telegram to Mexico telling Mexico to invade the U.S. Germany was going to help get taxes back for Mexico.the British intercepted it and then gave us the telegram. made the U.S. one step closer to war. -
April. U.S. Declares war on Germany and Austria (but not Turkey)
we went out of an isolationism. we had to go to war for mobile reasons. first troops sent in may 1917. US was only in the war in the end -
Lansing Ishii Agreement
Germany invaded china in really 1915. that imposed heavy burdens on China and posed a threat. Japan concluded a secret treaty with the British that established a plan for dividing German holdings in the Pacific between the two powers. -
Fourteen Points
The group produced and collected nearly 2,000 separate reports and documents plus at least 1,200 maps. The studies culminated in a speech by Wilson to Congress on January 8 1918, wherein the articulated America's long-term war objectives. -
Versailles Treaty "Big Four"
was the most important of the peace treaties. it brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization.the headquarters are in Geneve Switzerland. it was founding by Woodrow Wilson. made because how gruesome ww1 was. -
Washington Naval Conference
The conference held in Washington, D.C. concluding in the Four Power Treaty, Five-Power Treaty, and Nine-Power Treaty. Major naval disarmament.It is also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference. was a military conference called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding. -
washington naval conference
the US and japan were having a arms race with naval vessels. the world's largest naval gathering at the time. the conference was held at D.C. it was also called the Washington Arms Conference. -
U.S. led conference results in the Dawes Plan
attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem that Germany had to pay.payments were to begin at 1,000,000,000 gold marks in the first year and rise to 2,500,000,000 by 1928. The plan provided for the reorganization of the Reichsbank and for an initial loan of 800,000,000 marks to Germany
