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Sinking of the USS maine // Future 2
The sinking of the USS Maine united the American people against Spain. Spain was seen as treacherous and barbarious.
The song by mary elizabeth helped further this feeling by calling vengeance: "Awake! it is no dream; Dost hear the sailor's scream? Comerades will you go? Avenge the creul below!"
This represents future 2 because the US is declaring war on spain and invading cuba as sa direct responce to an attack on our assets. -
Teller // Future 1
the responsibility of the united states to get involved to free the people of cuba
"resolve first that the people of the island of cuba are, of right ought to be, free and independent -
Platt // Future 2
It is a treaty made by the U.S. describing what Cuba must do to protect their independence from foreign intervention.
“That the government of cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty” -
President Wilson's declaration of neutrality
"Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality, which is the spirit of impartiality and fairness and friendliness to all concerned."
declaration of neutrality
future 4 because you're isolating from the rest of the world -
expansion of U.S. Army
National Defense Act authorizes five-year expansion of U.S. Army, but at the same time drastically limits size and authority of U.S. War Department General Staff.
Future 2 because we're thinking for ourselves
"The National Defense Act of 1916 authorized an increase in the peacetime strength of the Regular Army over a period of five years to 175,000 men and a wartime strength of close to 300,000." -
Woodrow Wilson (photograph) wins reelection
Woodrow Wilson (photograph) wins reelection under the slogan "He kept us out of war."
"it is apparent that the vote for Wilson cloaked profound cleavages in public opinion. At the time of his inauguration, immigrants constituted one third of the population. Allied"
future 1 because people came together -
Wilson's war message to congress
Why we're going to war
Future 1: "bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free" -
President Wilsons 14 points
Make everyone free, and look out for everyone; peace guidelines
Future 1: "all french territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored"
Future 3: "We feel ourselves to be intimate partners of all the governments and peoples assiciated together against the imperialists" -
Lodge's case againse league of nations
keep up with the maintenance of the United States
Future 4: "I thik of the united states first"
Future 2: "The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves, but to the world, than any single possession" -
Covenant of the league of nations
international peace & security; honorable relations between the nations
Future 3: "in order to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security"
Future 4: "the first meeting of the assembly and the first meeting of the council shall be summoned by the president of the united states" -
Fireside chat eurpoean war
Future 4: "every word that comes through the air, every ship that sails the sea, every battle that if fought does affect the American future"
neutrality can become a true neutrality -
FDR lend lease
Future 2: "We believe firmly that when our production output is in full swing, the democracies of the world will be able to prove that dictatorships cannot win"
Looking out for our country -- > "every instrument that we can spare now, we will send overseas because that is the common sense of strategy" -
Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War
future 2: "The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our Nation."
bombing of pearl harbor by japan -
Establishing U.N.
Future 3
Representatives come together to make decisions on peacekeeping -
U.S. joins Nato
Future 3
Military alliance
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949 -
Berlin Airlift
Future 3
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
USSR explode an atomic bomb
The Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device on 29 August 1949 -
Mckinley // Future 2
explains why the us should invade cuba and how it will benefit the US economy
“very serious injury to the commerce and trade to Americans"