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Mexico- "Gaining" Land
Democrats wanted to supply abundant land to the nation's poor and to future immigrants. To attain this laudable goal, however, they relied on bribery, bullying, and warfare to wrest land from Native Americans and Mexicans. Often idealistic, they were also racist and materialistic. -
Mexico- Rivalry
Soon after Texas was admitted into the US, Mexico would end all diplomacy with the American people, and a dispute over the Texas-Mexico border would come as a result. Texans would claim the Rio Grande as thier western and southern border, while Mexico was adament in their belief that the Texas-Mexico border was, and always had been the Nueces River north of the Rio Grande. -
Panama Canal Clsyton-Bulwer Treaty
in 1850 the United States and Great Britain negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to reign in rivalry over a proposed canal through the Central American Republic of Nicaragua. -
China- Trying to catch up
From the 1860s onward, the Chinese attempt reform efforts to meet the military and political challenge of the West. China searches for ways to adapt Western learning and technology while preserving Chinese values and Chinese learning. -
Alaska
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. -
S-AW Precursor
The first serious bid for Cuban independence, the Ten Years' War, erupted in 1868 and was subdued by the authorities a decade later. -
Japan- Trouble with Korea
n the 1870s, Japanese warships, with troops, threatened the Koreans and struck at Korea's port city of Pusan and at Kanghwado island. Japan was proving its perceived superiority militarily, and in 1876 Korea signed a treaty, drafted by the Japanese, that granted the Japanese in Korea extraterritoriality (exemption from the jurisdiction of local law), exemption from tariffs and recognition of Japanese currency at ports of trade. -
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Had a significant impact on sea power and navies around the world. Demonstrated in The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 -
S-AW Monroe Doctrine - Exemption
In 1823, U.S. President James Monroe enunciated the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the United States would not tolerate further efforts by European governments to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas; however, Spain's colony in Cuba was exempted. -
Hawaii Annexation Declined
President Benjamin Harrison, submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the U. S. Senate for ratification. In 1897, the treaty for annexation was declined only 46 senators in favor of the treaty less than 2/3 of the majority needed for approval. -
Hawaii - Conspiracy
The U.S. diplomatic and military personnel conspired with a small group of people to overthrow the current Hawaiian government. -
Spanish American War
A conflict between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
S-AW Sinking of the Maine
"Remember the Maine"
It was thought that the Spanish blew up a naval ship in the harbor -
S-AW Treaty of Paris
$20 mil to Spain allowing the US temporary control of Cuba, and ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Pilippines. -
S-AW Collapse of Spanish Empire
The defeat and collapse of the Spanish Empire was a profound shock to Spain's national psyche, and provoked a thorough philosophical and artistic revaluation of Spanish society known as the Generation of '98. -
S-AWDeclared by Congress
The war began exactly fifty-two years after the beginning of the Mexican–American War. It was one of only five US wars (against a total of eleven sovereign states) to have been formally declared by Congress. -
S-AW Manila Bay
The first battle between American and Spanish forces was at Manila Bay where, on May 1, Commodore George Dewey, commanding the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron aboard USS Olympia, in a matter of hours defeated a Spanish squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo. -
S-AW Rushed into War
Due to the sinking the Democrats pressured Republican President William McKinley in a war he had wanted to avoid. -
Annexation of Hawaii
The U.S. annexed Hawaii, while in August 1959, Hawaii became a state -
Philippine American War- Manila
Fighting erupted between United States and the Philippine Republic forces on February 4, 1899, and quickly escalated into the 1899 Second Battle of Manila. -
The Philippine-American War -The Beginnings
The conflict arose when First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the Treaty of Paris under which the United States took possession of the Philippines from Spain ending the Spanish–American War.[15][16] The war was a continuation of the Philippine struggle for independence that began in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution. -
Big Stick Diplomacy
"Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far." With these words President Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) described his approach to foreign policy. -
Big Stick Diplomacy- Issues
issue involved Venezuela and Santo Domingo (now known as the Dominican Republic). These two countries had incurred debts to several European countries—debts that they could not pay. In December 1902, British and German ships blockaded Venezuelan ports in an effort to force payment. Known as the Venezuela Affair, this action violated the cornerstone document of U.S. foreign policy—the Monroe Doctrine. -
Building the Panama Canal
President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy of the United States—particularly during President William Howard Taft's term— was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Rebellion in China
Internal strains and foreign activity in China lead to rebellions and ultimately revolt of the provinces against the Qing imperial authority in 1911 in the name of a Republican Revolution. -
WW1- Assassination of Archduke
Assisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist triggers alliance system of Europe. On July 23, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Remaining powers declare war between July 29 and August 4. -
WW1- Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire signs an accord with Germany; enters war in November. -
WW1- Italy
Ottoman Empire signs an accord with Germany; enters war in November. -
WW1- Lusitania
British ocean liner Lusitania sunk, killing 1, 198 people, including 139 Americans; Germany agress to stop submarine patrols to keep U.S. neutral. -
WW1- Battle of Werdun
Battle at Verdun lasts 6 months--Germany loses 281, 000; France loses 315, 000. -
WW1- Battle at Somme
Battle at the Somme lasts four months--Germany loses 450,000; France loses 200,000; Britain loses 420,000 -
WW1- Near End
Paris Peace Conference opens; despite Wilson's Fourteen Points, Germany effectively crippled by British and French demands. Austria-Hungary dismantled -
Red Scare
The First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
