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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."
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United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million.
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The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii began on January 17, 1893, against Queen Liliuokalani on the island of Oahu
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The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
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America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power.
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amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress
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Commodore Dewey's fleet opened fire on Spanish ships in the Manila Bay.
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fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Roosevelt's regiment of volunteers, the Rough Riders, took charge of San Juan Hill in Cuba.
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criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd.
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It placed a condition on the United States military's presence in Cuba.
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USS Maine was an American naval ship that sank in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain, an event that became a major political issue in the United States.
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an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899 to July 2, 1902.
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During the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, 1521–1898, there were several revolts against the Spanish colonial government by indigenous Moro, Lumad, Indians, Chinese and Insulares
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The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901
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United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
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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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treaty signed by the United States and the United Kingdom on 18 November 1901, as a preliminary to the creation of the Panama Canal.
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was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.
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agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan negotiated between United States Secretary of State Elihu Root and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Takahira Kogorō.
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form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
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Taft wanted greater share of money from Chinese investment, created Hu-Kuang railway, tried to get loan from china to buy up all railways and make new ones.
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The Tampico Affair began as a minor incident involving U.S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to Mexican dictator General Victoriano Huerta during the guerra de las facciones phase of the Mexican Revolution.
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Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization.
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Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium.
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On 15 August 1914 – just one month after the First World War erupted in Europe – the Panama Canal was finally opened for transit.
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In the end, Britain refused to ignore the events of 4 August 1914, when Germany attacked France through Belgium. Within hours, Britain declared war on Germany.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip
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the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea.
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German submarine U-24 torpedoed Arabic, and the ship sank in 9 minutes
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Torpedoing of a French cross-channel passenger steamer, the Sussex, by a German submarine, leaving 80 casualties, including two Americans wounded.
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution
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Promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.
