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Dupuy de Lome was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a letter that described McKinley in decidedly unflattering terms. The resulting uproar after Heart publicized this private letter forced his resignation, further infuriated the American public, and helped spark the Spanish-American War.
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Alaska was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars
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Alfred Thayer Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power upon History
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Queen Liliuokalani opposed the US wanting Hawaii for business so Sanford B.Dole overthrew her
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US wanted Hawaii for business and so Hawaiian sugar could be sold in the US duty free.
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Cubans began to fight for independence from Spain
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The Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain
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William Mckinley convinced congress to annex Hawaii
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American battleship dispatched to keep a friendly watch over Cuba in early 1898. It mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, with a loss of 260 sailors. Although many Americans eager for war insisted that it was the fault of the Spanish submarine mine
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Boxer Rebellion a rebellion in Bejing started by a secret society of chinese who opposed the foreign devils
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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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The ensuing Philippine-American War lasted three years and resulted in the death of over 4,200 American and over 20,000 Filipino combatants.
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Spheres of influence china was heavily controlled by foreign nations who dominated ports
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The Foraker act gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government. The first comprehensive Congressional effort to provide for governance of territories acquired after the Spanish-American war, it served as a model for a similar act adopted for the Philippines
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A badly divided Supreme Court ordered in these cases that the constitution didn't follow the flag; in other words, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos wouldn't necessarily enjoy all American rights. This was known as insular cases
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the US successfully pressured the Cuban government to write this amendment into its constitution. It limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled its debt, and stipulated that the US could intervene militarily to restore order when it saw fit. This was called the Plat Amendment
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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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Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal.
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The Great White Fleet is a group of american warships, that toured the world inn a show of peaceful strength is a leading example of Big Stick Diplomacy
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This refers to the use of diplomacy to promote US commercial interest and economic power abroad by guaranteeing loans made to strategically important foreign countries.
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A global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.
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July 28th 1914 Austria declared War on Serbia
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August 1st 1914 Germany declared war on Russia
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August 4th 1914 Britain declares war on germany
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Was built to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa.
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An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American army to seize the port of Veracruz known as Tampico incident
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May 23rd 1915 Italy declared war on Austria and Germany
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The name given to a period of anti-radical hysteria and the fear that anarchists,socialists, and communists were conspiring to start a workers revolution in the USA
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President Wilson sent this man John Pershing with his army to Mexico to Pancho Villa
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Treaty of Versailles signed by germans
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Japanese Internment camps were established by Franklin Roosevelt through his executive order 9066
