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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and Cuba that resulted in the United states fighting Spain to help Cuba gain their independence. As result the U.S. won and gained the Pillippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico Territories, Cuba also got their independece. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a 51-mile ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The Canal was built because during the Spanish American War, warships in the Pacific fleet had to sail 16000 miles around the tip of South America to reach the Caribbean when they could've just had a canal to send ships back and fourth between two oceans instead of two seprate naval fleets. -
Acquisistion of Hawaii
On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president. -
Open Door Policiy
The Open Door Policy was an American proposal that aimed to keep Chinese markets open for all and not allow any one country to gain control over the region. Gave equal trading rights to all foreign nations in China... -
Dollar Diplamcy
Dollar Diplomacy is the effort of the United States—mostly during President William Howard Taft's term—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Roosevelt Corallary
The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. The corollary (forming a proposition that follows from one already proved) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country. -
Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 Americans.
