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Purchase of Alaska
we purchased it off russa to keep it from briten. the purchase price set at $7.2 million. the Russians in 1859 offered to sell the territory to the United States. -
Takeover in Hawaii
Americans dominated the islands economy with railroads,banks, hotels, and stores.they were alos able to influence its government as well as taking over the quine. -
America claims Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico
America wanted to build a powerful navil fleet. America starts a war with the spanish for the caribbeans. the american victory collapsed the spanish empire. -
Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders
The Rough Riders were mostly made of college athletes, cowboys, and ranchers.Among these men were also police officers and military veterans who wished to see action again. Men who had served in the regular army during campaigns against Indians or served in the Civil War had been gathered to serve as higher ranking officers in the cavalry. -
Open Door Policy in China
With the purchase of the Phillippines, America worked its way towards Asia and began to expand its trade in China for economic reasons. Therefore, the administration of President Wiliam McKinley denounced trade barriers errected in China which was then called the Open Door Policy. -
The Boxer Rebellion
The Great Powers intervened and defeated Chinese forces, in a humiliation for China. The Eight-Nation Alliance, after being initially turned back, brought 20,000 armed troops to China, defeated the Imperial Army, and captured Beijing on August 14. Siege of the International Legations, lifting the siege of the Legations. Uncontrolled plunder of the capital and the surrounding countryside ensued, along with the summary execution of those suspected of being Boxers. -
Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy
The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military. Roosevelt described his style of foreign policy as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis". -
The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz, and lasted for the better part of a decade until around 1920. -
America Claims Neutrality at the Start of WWI
When the war began the United States proclaimed a policy of strict neutrality—"in thought and deed", as President Woodrow Wilson put it.[2] His goal was to broker a peace but it was ignored.When a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania in 1915, with 128 Americans aboard, Wilson said, "America is too proud to fight," and demanded an end to attacks on passenger ships. This policy was very in favor of US citizens. -
America gets involved with: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Panama
Economic reasons and the desire for creating better trade ways led to American involvement with Venezuela, Nicaragua and especially Panama. The US had discovered possible routes through a proposed canal in Nicaragua and Panama. The US then signed a treaty for purchasing the canal zone. -
america joins WW1
Americans had no idea that war was imminent in Europe in the summer of 1914, and tens of thousands of tourists were caught by surprise. The U.S. government, under Wilson's firm control, called for neutrality "in thought and deed". -
Woodrow Wilson´s 14 Points
President Woodrow Wilson presented his 14 points in speech he gave to the US Congress on January 8, 1918. His 14 Points are considered to be one of the most powerful expressions of the idealist strain in US diplomay since they mentioned restoration of world peace, war aims and peace terms.
