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The US bought what most people thought was worthless to satify the want to expand.
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Mahan claimed that a stronger navy would increase the US's wealth (very imperialistic).
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Sugar growers wanted to expand their power so they deposed Queen Liliuokalani and took over the government.
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Cleveland believed that white planter (who illegally took over Hawaii) did not speak for the major of Hawaiians who didn't want to be under US rule.
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It ended hostilities between the two countries.
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The US aquired Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and got control over Cuba.
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Hawaii was annexed by the US because the US didn't want Hawaii in European hands
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The Maine was a US ship that exploded causing it to sink. The Spainish were blamed by the Americans for blowing up the Maine leading to war.
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Commodore George Dewey fired on Spainish occupied Manila Bay. It was a decisive US victory.
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The US declared war after the sinking of the Maine. This war would end with the US gaining land.
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Cuba was where the Maine was sunk.
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The US was winning the war
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The US won the war
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Began a trading relationship between the US and China.
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Chinese aggression towards imperialism.
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The Filipinos were fighting the US for freedom
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This treaty canceled out an older treaty with Britain saying America could not build canals in Latin America. The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty led to the building of the Panama canal.
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The Roosevelt Corollary meant US military would go to Latin America to retrieve money owed to the Europeans.
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The US won over the Philippines causing the Philippines to stay under US rule
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Roosevelt lead peace conferences to sort out the two counties problems
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This canal was opposed by Colombia (the actual owners of the land).
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The US military sent troops to collect debt for Europeans as to not violate the Monroe Doctrine.
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The US needed a canal
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Roosevelt is showing off his power
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Dollar Diplomacy was the US foreign policy from 1909 to 1913
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Wilson put an embargo on Mexico as a result of its civil war.
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American lives were lost which angered the Americans enough to declare war on Germany
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Pancho Villa continually crossed the border into Texas and New Mexico and began raid.
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Wilson asked congress for a war to end all wars and the US entered WW1
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The telegram suggested that Mexico join the Germans. It ended up in American hands.
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Congress made the draft legal
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It was the first major American battle that we fought offensively.
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American troops attacked German lines
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World War 1 officially ends.
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Used to silence socialist and communist.
