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Congress moved to annex the Hawaiian islands by Joint Resolution, a process requiring only a simple majority in both houses of Congress. On July 12, 1898, the Joint Resolution passed and the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States.
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-Said that European efforts to colonize or interfere in North or South America would be viewed as agression
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The rising water carried the baskets off the ship but none survived the turbulence created as the ship sank to the bottom. The sea also claimed Vanderbilt and Frohman.
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-Encouraged U.S. banks to invest to Caribean countries
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Dollar Diplomacy is the effort of the United States—particularly during President William Howard Taft's term—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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Jined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France.
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The bigining of world war one
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-An important human feature in the Latin American region
-48 mile canal that joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
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Person-General von Graevenitz
In his proclamation von Graevenitz announced that selected men and women living in Lille were to be deported to surrounding areas for the purpose of working in the countryside. This was, he stated, to provide provisions for civilian use. -
who- Germany
what- promised to stop the sinking of US ships; originaly vowed to sink any ships that passed Brittish waters with no question -
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people
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A telegram that was supposed to be for Mexico sent by Germany;offering them their land back from the US if they would help them; but Great Britain was able to get it before them; this angered the US
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Person-rajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Impact- Sparked outbreak of world war 1
