u.s expansionism timeline Wilmer Mejia

  • uss maine

    uss maine
    the spanish sunk it and it started war
  • spanish american war

    spanish american war
    it started because they sunk the uss maine
  • Open door policy

    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, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.
  • roosevelt corollary

    roosevelt corollary
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    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.
  • acquisation Guam, and the Philipines

    a learning habit andd als those countries were in united states when they fought spain
  • dollar diplomacy

    dollar diplomacy
    is the effort of the United States—particularly during 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
  • start of WW1

    start of WW1
  • Assassination of archduke franz ferdinand

    Assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
  • panama canal

    panama canal
    panama canal was built by the us and later gave it back to panama.. they still use it to do trade with other countries
  • sussex pledge

    sussex pledge
    sussex pledge was promised by the germans that they would sunk any more ships but they did
  • sinking of the Lusitania

    sinking of the Lusitania
    the luisitania was sunk by the germans for passing over their territory
  • zimmerman Pledge

    zimmerman Pledge
    was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
  • U.S enters WW1

    U.S enters WW1
  • Selective service Act

    Selective service Act
    the act required all men beetween the ages of 18- 31 to register for military service