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Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867, and the annexation of Hawaii took place in 1898. Both of the Annexations were a result of American Imperialism. The Americans took interest in Alaska because of manifest destiny in the 1840’s, they also had interest in other natural resources. The Americans were interested in Hawaii because of the Naval advantages. A“Committee of Safety,” organized by Sanford B. Dole, staged an attack against Queen Liliuokalani forcing her to sign the “Bayonet treaty”.
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Internal communication in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I.
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Promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States saying Germany would alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare to stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships.
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A form of diplomacy proposed by president Woodrow Wilson in 1912. This plays a role in American Imperialism because Wilson opposed it. Wilson ultimately created moral diplomacy to replace dollar diplomacy.
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President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests.
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addition to Monroe doctrine by Theodore Roosevelt. Corollary states that the U.S will interfere with and conflict between European countries and Latin American countries to enforce the claim of European power
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U.S withdrawals troops remaining in Cuba at end of Spanish-American war. Cuba will sign a treaty accepting this decision.
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Poem written in February 1899, saying that the white man has a moral obligation to rule the non-white peoples of the Earth
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Hay’s proposal for an Open Door Policy called for the establishment of equal trading rights to all nations in all parts of China and for recognition of Chinese territorial integrity (meaning that the country should not be carved up)
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It was in reply to president William Mckinley's war message. The amendment stated that America could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people", which meant that we
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This treaty ended the war and ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines to the U.S. In return, we would give Spain 20 million dollars.
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The war started in April 1898 and ended in August 1898. This played a role in American imperialism because with the fear of another empire coming and controlling America. Because of this America went to war with the Spanish in search of new military bases.
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After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. Arguments made for the annexation of Philippines in 1898 represent some of the most racist and paternalistic strains in American thought.
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a letter from Spanish minister to US Enrique de Lome. called McKinley a weak leader. Spain apologized, minister resigned, US insulted
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A book that was published in 1890. Mahan explains about the history of naval warefare throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Strong was a clergy man and writer who preached of the saving power of Protestant religious values, Best known for his book 'OUr Country" it's possible future and its present crisis, in which he urged Anglo Saxons to "civilize and christanize" the American west and argued that the United States had the obligation to spread our superior way of life or civilization to Latin America and Asia.
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Established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area.
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a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence
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refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."
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the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts.
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On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner, killing more than 1,100 passengers, including more than 120 Americans, contributing to reasons why America would enter WWI.
