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The U.S.S. Maine blows up outside of the border of Cuba.
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Hawaii Is annexed by the United States, and Sanford Dole becomes the first governer of the new territory.
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Spain declares war on the U.S. and end up losing the war as well as several territories to the U.S.
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A policy in which the United States gave themselves the right to create trade with China.
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Barred European countries from using force to collect debt in Latin American countries.
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Encouraged investing, by American banks, in Carribean countries.
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The U.S.bought land from panama in which they built a canal over the span of ten years and finished in 1914. The land the U.S. had obtained was a strip of 10 miles.
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The Archduke Franz Ferdinad of Austria is assassinated, and causes alliances to break out into war.
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Germany declares that they will fire upon any ship round the British Isles.
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A German submarine, or U boat, sinks the British cruise ship, and kills 120 Americans.
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Germany declares that they will not shoot on any commercial ship, without warning.
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Germany returns to firing on any ship that enetered the British Isles.
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Germany sends a coded message to Mexico, but gets intercepted by the british. The code stated that Germany will give Mexico the lands they had previously lost.
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U.S. joins the first ever World War.
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The U.S. requires that every man between the ages of 21 and 30 must registerfor draft into the U.S. Army.
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The Espionage Act restricted people from telling anyone about any military activity.
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President Woordow Wilson adresses to congress what he believes should be the terms of world peace.
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York killed 20, and captured 132 Germans during the batle of Muese-Argonne.
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The last major battle which ended the first world war. Fought in France.
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Germany and it's allies lose the war.
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The official peacetreaty that ends the first world war. It forces Germany to take full responsibilityover the war, as well as take all finiancial responsibilities for those they had attacked.
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