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  • Treaty of Kanagawa

  • Cuban rebels declare independence

  • Tariff exemptions in Hawaii

  • Pago Pago Naval Base

  • The United States overthrows Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii

  • Japan defeats China

  • Sugar tariff devastates Cuba

  • 1898 USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor; Treaty of Paris gives the United States temporary control of Cuba and control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

  • American troops land in Cuba

  • Treaty of Paris signed

  • Spanish fleet in Manila Bay destroyed

  • Emilio Aguinaldo attacks American soldiers

  • Civil government for Puerto Rico (Foraker Act)

  • President McKinley Reelected

  • Aguinaldo captured

  • America declares war

  • Construction in Panama

  • Panama revolt

  • Senate approves treaty leasing the Panama Canal

  • Roosevelt Corollary applied to Dominican Republic

  • Francisco Madero revolution

  • Loans to Nicaragua

  • US Marines enter Nicaragua

  • Madero murder

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • German submarine sinks the Lusitania

  • Marines sent to Haiti

  • Marines sent to Dominican Republic

  • United States declares war and joins World War I

  • Espionage Act passed

  • Selective Service Act passed

  • Armistice ends World War I

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    Deadly influenza pandemic spreads throughout world

  • Race riots take place across the United States

  • Red Scare and Palmer Raids occur