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Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia
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A United States treaty to trade sugar with Hawaii
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King Kalakua signed a constitution giving some of his powers to the people
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On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion sank the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor, triggering a war between the United States and Spain. The Maine had come to Cuba to protect American citizens while Cuban revolutionaries were fighting to win independence from Spain
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Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational newspapers, and American sympathy for the rebels rose
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U.S. Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines
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The Battle of San Juan Hill (1 July 1898), also known as the battle for the San Juan Heights, was a decisive battle of the Spanish–American War. The San Juan heights was a north-south running elevation about 2 kilometres (2,200 yd) east of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
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U.S. forces destroy the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba
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The U.S. annexes Hawaii in order to take control of sugar plantations
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Spanish surrender at Santiago due to losses
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The U.S. and Spain sign the Protocol of Peace, ending hostilities between the two
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The United States acquires control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines
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Days before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists
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Alfred Thayer Mahan [məˈhæn] was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century"
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Missionaries were martyred in China
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The Panama Canal is an artificial 77 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade
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Panama declared itself a republic and got $10,000,000 from the United States
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It is a common mistake to call the 1903 events 'Panama's independence from Colombia'. Panamanians do not consider themselves former Colombians. They celebrate their independence from Spain on November 28, 1821, and separation from Colombia on November 3, 1903, which is referred to as "Separation Day"
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The U.S acquired the 'Panama Canal' project from the French for $40 million. ... On November 3, 1903, Panama declared its independence without any interference from Colombia. Three months later the Panamanians granted control of the 'Panama Canal Zone' to the United States, having signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
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The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle c. 1910–1920 radically transforming Mexican culture and government. Although recent research has focused on local and regional aspects of the Revolution, it was a "genuinely national revolution"
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To increase american trade policies
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip
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Germany declared war on Russia because Russia tried to negotiate with Germany about Austria
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Germany invaded in order to guarantee that Belgium would stay neutral
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Japan participated in World War I from 1914 to 1918 in an alliance with Entente Powers and played an important role in securing the sea lanes in the West Pacific and Indian Oceans against the Imperial German Navy
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Huge spike in war propaganda
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A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism
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The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union
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President Wilson wanted to declare war with Germany and supplied the western front with 1,000,000 troops
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China Declares war with Germany
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World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
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Phase 3 of the revolution begins due to economical problems
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Anti-Communism witch hunts took place, and people were terrified of Communism
