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Hawaiian Annexation
In January 1893, the American sugar planters staged an uprising to overthrow the Queen of Hawaii, and they appealed to the United States armed forces for protection. Without Presidential approval, marines stormed the islands, and the American minister to the islands raised the stars and stripes in Honolulu. The Queen was forced to abdicate, in 1959 Hawaii became the 15th state. -
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U.S. Expansionism:1898-1919
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The Sinking of the USS Maine
Quietly at anchor in Havana harbour, was suddenly blown up, apparently by a mine, in an explosion which tore her bottom out and sank her, killing 260 officers and men on board. No one knows who sank it but the blame was pinned on the Spanish and started the Spanish American War -
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Spanish American War
Started by the sinking of the USS Maine, the war was to free the spanish controlled ilands and to give them independce. Roosevelt under Gen. William Shafter won agesnt Adm. Pascual Cervera and ended by the Treaty of Paris. -
Open Door Policy
The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note and dispatched to the major European powers. -
Roosevelt Corollary
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 -
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Dollar Diplomacy
effort of the United States (President William Howard Taft's term) to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries -
Panama Canal
The United States after helping Panama gain independice, got a 10-mile wide strip of land for the canal, Costing a one-time $10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000. Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal symbolized U.S. technological prowess and economic power.
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Start Of WW1
A young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Taking place against a backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balkans, the assassination set off a chain of events that would lead to the start of World War I barely one month later. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Less than a year after World War I erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. More than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans. Nearly two years would pass before the United States formally entered World War I, but the sinking of the Lusitania played a significant role in the US joinning. -
Sussex Pledge
A promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to their entry into the war. Early in 1915, Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning. -
German Proclamation
a proclamation issued by the German Military Governor of Lille, General von Graevenitz. In his proclamation von Graevenitz announced that selected men and women living in Lille were to be deported to surrounding areas for the purpose of working in the countryside. -
U.S. Enters World War I
the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. -
Zimmermann Telegram
(or Zimmermann Note) was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany -
The Espionage Act of 1917
United States federal law shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime. -
Wilson`s Fourteen Points
In this address to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days -
End of WW1
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Failures of Deplomancy
With the The Versailles Treaty including a "War Guilt" article that claimed Germany was solely responsible for the World War. An Allied commission saddled Germany with a reparations bill of about $33 billion, to be paid off at the rate of five billion gold marks per year. This soon caused a deppression in Germany and soon after WW2. -
Ratification of the Versailles Treaty
In a break with conventional practice, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appears personally before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to argue in favor of the peace settlement that ended the First World War -
Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act
The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. -
Alvin Cullum York
Known also by his rank, Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated soldiers of the United States Army in World War I.
