U.S. Expansionism:1898-1919

By Michaelgreenwalt40

  • beginning of ww1

    it started because assassination of archduke frainz ferdin

  • german proclamation

    british isle were to be a war zone and any ship that comes in well be sunk

  • sinking of the lusitania

    british passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk by a german submarine kiling more than 120 americans

  • sussex pledge

    germany promise to not sink anymore ships with out warring

  • failure of diplomacy

    germany resumes u boats attacks on the united states

  • zimmerman telegram

    german plan to ask the mexicans to attack united states in exchange for tx nm and az

  • us enters the war

    they got fed up with everything and enter the war

  • selective service act

    the government now has the power to draft men over the age of 21