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Congress agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
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"The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" argued that a strong navy was key to dominance as a world power
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American settlers overthrew the Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani
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Cuban nationalists started sabotaging plantations to either force SPain out or involve the US
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Outbreak of war in the Philippines gave Congress and McKinley reason to complete annexation.
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Authorized war with Spain and said the US was not trying to take political control over Cuba.
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A letter written by a Spanish official that painted McKinley in a bad light, many thought it to be a Spanish insult to the US.
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US battleship that exploded in Havana, Spain was blamed
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Philippines fell under US control
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The United States took Cuba from the Spanish
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Declared war on SPain.
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Hay's "open door" policy established in China.
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Official annexation of the Philippines--beginning of US?Philippine war
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Chinese secret society attacked foreign settlements and Christian missionaries. US troops were involved in crushing the rebellion.
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Hawaii becomes official U.S. territory.
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Ended joint British-US control of canals--US could build Panama canal without British involvement
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Cuba agreed to never sign a treaty that compromised its independence, build up excessive public debt, and to permit the US to intervene with Cuban affairs to preserve its independence and allow the US to keep naval bases there, including Guantanamo Bay
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The insurrection in the Philippines was stopped.
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Supreme Court ruled that the territories under the control of the United States (Philippines, Puerto Rico) are not subject to the constitution.
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U.S. would police debt payment in Latin America.
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Japan agreed to limit immigration to the U.S., Roosevelt agreed to talk to San Francisco schools about desegregation.
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Roosevelt sent a fleet of U.S. battleships to demonstrate American power to other countries.
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Taft secured American participation in investing in Chinese railroads.
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Panama Canal completed, linking Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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Several American Seamen were arrested at Tampico. Almost started a war, but ABC (Argentina, Brasil, and Chile) stepped in to mediate. First dispute in Americas to be settled by joint mediation.
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British passenger ship with American passengers sunk by German submarines.
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Wilson ordered troops to pursue Pancho Villa into Mexico after Villa raided Texas and New Mexico.
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Wilson re-elected President
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began the draft in America
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Intercepted telegram proposing that Mexico ally themselves w/ Germany in return for Germany helping them reclaim territories lost, such as Texas.
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Wilson declares war on Germany (largely due to German submarine warfare) to "make the world safe for democracy"
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Czar overthrown, one of Wilson's objections to joining the war no longer valid
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Palmer called for the arrest of radicals (anarchists, socialists, etc) due to "anti-communist hysteria."
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Ended the first World War, unintentionally set the stage for WWII
