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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century -
Sanford Ballard Dole was a lawyer and jurist from the Hawaiian Islands. He lived through the periods when Hawaii was a kingdom, protectorate, republic, and territory. A descendant of the American missionary community to Hawaii, Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture. -
He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front during World War I -
Imperialism is the policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations while expansionism is the policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence. -
He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathered 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 prisoners -
The Spanish–American War was a period of armed conflict between Spain and the United States. -
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama. A French company headed by Ferdinand, viscount de Lesseps, started to build a canal in 1881 but failed by 1889. The United States, led by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, negotiated the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, giving the U.S. control of the Canal Zone.
The Panama Canal was built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary -
Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships