The Timeline of The Expansionism

  • USS Maine

    USS Maine
    October 17 1888 The Sinking Of The USS Maine
  • Acquisition Of Hawaii

    Acquisition Of Hawaii
    Annexed As A Territory In 1898, Sandford when dolewood became apart of the government.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    The Official date of the sinking of the USS Maine
  • Open Door Policy

    Open Door Policy
    The was the day that te asian communtiy open there markets to the U.S
  • The Roosevelt Corollary

    The Roosevelt Corollary
    The barried European countries from using force to collect debt, in Latin American countres.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy
    encouraged investing by american banks in carribean countries if a country could not repay the loans the US would send troops to collect the payment
  • the beginning of WWI

    the beginning of WWI
    the day the war broke out
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    US helped panama become independent ad let us build the canal
  • failure Of Diplomacy

    failure Of Diplomacy
    Where most countries never managed the payment to the US
  • German Proclamation

    German Proclamation
    germany resumes u boat attacks on the U.S
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    the germans sunked the bristish paasengers ship killing more than 120 americans
  • Sussex Pledge

    The Germans promised not to sink any more merchant ships without warning
  • Espionage Act

    the law that stoped people from giving out any information that has to do with our or anyones state
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    the british intelligence intercepted the Zimmerman Telegram which revealed germanys plans
  • The U.S Joins World War I

    This is the day when the US joins the fight
  • Selective Service Act

    the government gained the power to draft soilders into war
  • Battle of Argone Forest

    part of the final allied offensive of WWI that stretched along the Western Front
  • Alvin York

    the most decorated soldier of the US army in WWI