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US purchases alaska, expanding American territory
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Treaty allowed US to intervene in Hawaii, namely for the purpose of sugar profit
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Mahan's publishing was food for thought amongst the major military and political leaders
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Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy which involved America being very present in the nations it sought to control (puerto rico, cuba, the phillipines, et.)
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Official beginning of the Spanish American war.
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First major battle of the Spanish American war, American victory over Spanish.
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US joins Cuban revolt against Spanish to "secure" Cuban independence, (aka American control)
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American victory, led by the rough riders (Teddy Roosevelt.)
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American naval victory over Spanish, leading to Spanish surrender
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US annexes Hawaii for trade access to and control of the Pacific
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official end date of the Spanish-American war.
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This is the day the president William Howard Taft was elected to office. His passive policy of imperialism "dollar diplomacy" would shape US involvment in WW1.
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Ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitiutional republic
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand or Austria Hungary was assassinated by a group of radical Serbians, instigating conflict between the two nations
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Great Britain officially declares war on Germany in retaliation to the conflict on the Belgian border.
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French and British troops try to keep German advancement into Paris at bay along the Marne river.
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Germans were the first to use chlorine gas in warfare.
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Germans sunk a commercial cruise line ship that was carrying munitions to allied forces, causing outrage amongst the allied powers.
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Longest battle of world war 1 begins, it would go on for 9 months as Germans tried (but failed) to break through French lines.
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German telegram intercepted by Americans, urging Mexico to fight the US in exchange fore territory they lost in the Mexican American war.
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Armistice signed, bringing war on the Western front to an end, Germans surrender and war is over.
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Palmer Raids begin, using intense government persecution of radical political ideaology, following the post war red scare.
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US officially declared Hawaii a state
