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Expansionism
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Acquisition of Hawaii
Def: Annexed territory
Ppl: N/A
Imapct: Helped with sugar plantations, and pineeapple plantations were created by settlers. -
Acquisition of Philipines
Def: Anguiano proclaims the independence of the Pilipines after 300 years of spanish rule.
Ppl: Emilio Anguiano
Impact: The US territory gained more territory -
Acquisition of Guam
Def: Annexed following military victory over Spain.
Ppl:N/A
Impact: There like a state to the US but not in the US because their education is American although in Asia -
Spanish American War
Def: Conflict bewtween the US and Spain
Ppl: N/A
Imapct: The US gained the small islands of Guam, Philipines and Puerto Rico -
Sinking of the USS Maine
Def: An American ship which sank during an explosion in Havana, Cuba
Ppl: N/A
Impact: Historians believe that it was a malfunction of the ship that caused the explosion -
Open Door Policy
Def: An American solution to the maneuvering among all countries to secure China.
Ppl: John Hay
Impact: No other country would gain dominance in China -
Roosevelt Corollary
Def: Barred European countries from using force to collect debt.
Ppl:Theodore Roosevelt
Impact: The US would act as an international police power -
Dollar Diplomacy
Def:the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
Ppl: President Taft
Impact: If a country coudlnt repay loans, the US would send in troops to the country. -
Unrestricted Sub Warfare cont.
Def: A type of naval warfare in which submarines get sunk without warning.
Ppl: N/A
Impact: -
Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand
Def: A man who was assasinated by Gavrido Princip of Serbia
Ppl: Archduke Franz Ferdinandand Gravrido Princip of Setbia
Impact: Because of European alliences, this broke out into war -
Beginning of WW1
Def: Germany declared war of Serbia and Russia
Ppl: N/A
Impact: WW1 started -
Panama Canal
Def: trading and transportatioon hub of the world
Ppl: N/A
Impact: Faster trade route for the U.S from New York to San Francisco and made profit by charging other couuntries that passed through it -
German Proclamation
Def: Waters around th eBritish isles were to be considered an official war zone
Ppl:N/A
Imapct: Germany would sink any ship that entered that area -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Def: sister of the titanic
Ppl: N/A
Impact: British passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine killing more than 120 Americans. -
Sussex Pledge
Def: Germany promises to not sink any more merchant ships without warning
Ppl: N/A
Imapct: They dont wanat the US to enter war -
Zimmerman Telegraph
Def: internal diplomatic communication issued
Ppl: N/A
Impact: The British intercepted their telegram which revelead Germanys plan to ask the Mex. gov. to attack the US in exchange of states -
US entered WW1
Def: the US enters WW1
Ppl: N/A
Impact: The Us joins war with its allies
