-
The United States purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
-
A U.S. naval base was established at Pear Harbor as part of a new Hawaiian constitution.
-
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan published "The Influence of Sea Power upon History" which argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance.
-
Roosevelt's regiment of volunteers, the Rough Riders, took charge of San Juan Hill in Cuba.
-
criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd.
-
The battleship USS Maine that was sent to protect U.S. citizens and property after rioting in Havana mysteriously exploded in the Havana harbor, which only grew the demand for U.S. intervention.
-
McKinley sent his war message to Congress, urging armed intervention to free the oppressed Cubans.
-
The United States declared war on Spain.
-
In the first battle of the war, U.S. Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
-
Roosevelt gains a heroic reputation for leading men known as the "rough riders" up San Juan Hill. Invasion of Cuba.
-
America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific. It cause economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power.
-
The U.S. and Spain sign the Protocol of Peace, ending hostilities between the two.
-
Filipino nationalists erupted into fight against the American troops under Emilio Aguinaldo, who sought for independence.
-
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 there.
-
Roosevelt's "big stick" was referring to the US foreign policy. It states that U.S. can intervene in the W. Hemisphere if necessary
-
This treaty is signed by the United States and the United Kingdom as a preliminary to the creation of the Panama Canal.
-
President Roosevelt declared that the war in the Philippines was over.
-
Venezuela asked Roosevelt to negotiate a settlement for the border dispute they had with Britain.
-
This agreement with the U.S. and Japan pledged both powers to respect each other's territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door Policy in China.
-
President William Taft followed Dollar Diplomacy, which was 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.
-
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.
-
German invasion of France is stopped in the First Battle of the Marne as German troops are forced to the north side of the Marne River, causing the the Schlieffen Plan to fail.
-
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.
-
An indecent that involved U.S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to Mexican dictator General Huerta during the faction wars phase of the Mexican Revolution.
-
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
-
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War exactly one month after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
-
One month after the First World War erupted in Europe, the Panama Canal was finally opened for transit.
-
Francisco "Pancho" Villa was a significant Mexican Revolutionary general of the Mexican Revolution.
-
Torpedoing of a French cross-channel passenger steamer, the Sussex, by a German submarine, leaving 80 casualties, including two Americans wounded.
-
The Treaty of Versaillles was one of the peace treaties signed at the end of WW1 and it ended the state of war between Gernamy and the Allied Powers.
-
Promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.
-
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.
-
This treaty between the United States and Hawaii was a free-trade agreement that guaranteed a duty-free market for Hawaiian sugar in exchange for special economic privileges for the United States.
