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sinking of the USS maine
-Definition : January 1898, Maine was sent from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War of Independence which was later sunk by Spain
-People Involved: Cuba and U.S
-Impact:killed 260 officers and men on board which caused the start of spanish- american War -
Roosevelt Corollary
- Defenition - an additon to the Manroe Doctrine in which the unittes states would collect the debt from Europe , acting as an " internatonal police power. -People Involved- Roosevelt and Europe
- Impact of Event - banned European countries from using forcr to collect debt in Latin America ( used for U.S. intervition in Central America)
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-Definition- Serbian Nationalists Nedjelko threw a bomb at the bak of the car killing the Princip of Serbia .
-People involved- Serbian Nationalists Nedjelko
-impact- due to European alliesnces this caused war to break out on Agust 1, 1914.( allie powers fought against the axis powers) -
Start of WW1
- Defenition: Britain placed a blockade around Germany and Austria Hungry in an attempt to starve them into summission.
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Panama Canal
People- President Roosevelt
-Impact - the canal send ships back and forth between the two ocens instead of having two seperate naval fleets. -
German Proclamation
-Definition: Gemany declaired the waters around the British Isles were to consider an official wa zone and Germany would use U-boats to sink any ship that enter the area.
-People involved: Germany and U.s
-Impact: Americans ran newspaper ran stories and pictures depicting German atrocities against civilians. -
Sinking of Lusitania
-Defenition:The Lusitania , a British passenger ship was Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine likking more than 120 americans
-People Involved: British and Germans and U.S
-Impact : It enraged opinion in the United States wanting them to declare war -
Sussex Pledge
-Defenition: Germany promised not to sink any more ships without warning.
- People Involved: U.S and Germany
-Impact : allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
Zimmerman Telegram
Defenition: matters became worse when British intelligence intercepted the Zimmerman , whiich revealed Germany's plan to ask the mexican governmet to attack the U.S in exchange for territory TX,NM, AZ, lost during the Mexican -American war to weaken American forces
-People Involved- British and Mexican president
- Impact -On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress formally declared war on Germany and its allies. -
U.S enters WW1
-Definition: on May 18,1917 the U.S government passed the act to have the power to draft soldiers. the act required all men between the ages of 21 and 31 to register for military services.
- People in volved: U.S government and U.S youn g men population
- Impact - U.S ended up going to war loosing thousands of men in the process. -
Selective Survice passed act
- Definiton: authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people -People Involved: U.S fedaral government -Impact: they organized a army for the U.S to fight in WW1
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Espionagge act
-Definition: made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S armed forces.
-people involved :
-Impact: eliminated all the spies that could be dong harm -
Espionage Act
-Defenition: the Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies
- People Involved: president wilson , Germany
-Impact: eliminateed countries enemies and more safety for the people -
Wilson's 14 points
-Definition: Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. -People Involved : British prime minister David Lloyd George and American president Woodrow Wilson
-Impact: The address was immediately hailed in the United States and Allied nations, and even by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, as a landmark of enlightenment in international relations. -
Battle of Argonne
- Deffinition: the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front
- People Involved:- allied powers - France
- Assosiated Powers- USA
- Central Powers - German Empire - Impact: French lost 70,000 men and the Germans 100,000 soldiers and only about two hundred of them survived the battle.
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Spanar ish -American war
- Definition: a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -People Involved : Spain ,U.S, and Cuba -Impact: Cuba gain its independence , Guam and Puerto Rico were given to the United states making it a world power country
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Dollar Diplomacy
Defenition - the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence
- people involved : William Howard Taft and Philander C. Knox,
- impact: used to aid the stability of Caribbean countries such as in Honduras and Haiti. By using Dollar Diplomacy Taft attempted to extend the American sphere of influence in China and also to Liberia in West Africa.
