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is a 77 km (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade
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created a crisis by ending Hawaii’s favored position in the sugar trade.
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It stated that once Cuba won its independence from spain, the united states would “leave the government and control of the island to its people.
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Although the main issue was Cuban independence, the ten-week war was fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific and it was between Spain and the United States
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The United States didn’t want queen liloukalani to restore the power of monarchy to Hawaii.
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Fighting erupted between U.S. and Philippine revolutionary forces and on June 2, 1899, the First Philippine Republic officially declared war against the United States.
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The boxers attacked Western missionaries and traders in northern China, killing more than 200 people.
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a treaty signed by the United States and Panama, that established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal.
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Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine made a right of the United States to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts.
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Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water navy capability
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particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
