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The U.S. purchased Alaska from the Russians who was eager to sell the land in fear of it being seiged in war.
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America's grip on Hawaii is beginning to tighten when a treaty with the native government guarentees naval-base rights at Pearl Harbor. European diseases have diminished their population one-sixth of its size. Leads to the bringing in of Asian Laborers to work the canefields and sugar mills.
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His book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance.
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Raises the barriers against the Hawaiian product causing the sugar markets to go sour.
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Whites, having the help of American troops, form a revolt with the desire for Hawaii to be annexed to the United States.Leads to the treaty of annexation. Though this treaty is withdrawn by the next president, president Cleveland.
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Due to falling prices of sugar and tobacco a citizen revolt broke out because of the economic depression that it caused.
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Colonists of Cuba revolted against the spanish who had been in control of their land.
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After the Maine docked in Cuba's harbor it was sinked caused by an explosion, this made citizens of the U.S. furious.
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President McKinley sends a message to congress stating that he supported American intervention in Cuba.
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Congress finally decides to declare war on Spain.
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Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay, for the U.S.
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After resigning his position in the Naval Department, Roosevelt led the group commonly known as the ¨Rough Riders¨ up San Juan Hill.
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A peace treaty that ended the Spanish-American War. Stating that Spain had to give recognition to Cuba as independent and America gained land including Puerto Rico, the Philipines, and Guam.
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Filipino nationalists and American forces began to fight causing Emilio Aguinaldo to leave the nationalists and to gain independence.
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Secretary of State John Hay dispatches to great powers a communication known as the Open Door note. Urged them to announce that they would respect certain Chinese rights and the ideal of fair competition. In 1900, Hay announces the Open Door would embrace the territorial and commercial integrity of China. This helped spare China from possible partition and they were incorporated into the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922.
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The boxers, trained martial arts group, broke loose with the cry, ¨Kill Foreign Devils.¨ Having murdured over two hundred foreigners and thousands of chinese christians. They beseiged the foreign diplomatic community in Beijing. A rescue force was sent in to put an end to the rebellion.
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Spanish-American War reinviforated interest in the panama canal. This waterway would make easier the defense of such a recent aquisitions as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines, while facilitating the operations of the U.S. merchant marine. The Hay-Paucefote Treaty gave the U.S, a free hand to build the canal as well as concede the right to fortify it.
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President McKinley was murdered by an anarchist in New York. Roosevelt thus took the oath of office. He adopted as his pet proverb, ¨Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.¨
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President Roosevelt granted an official pardon which ended the war.
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President Roosevelt feared that if the Germans or British got their foot in the door as bill collectors, they might remain in Latin America; this is a clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine. Announced that in the event of future financial malfeasance by the Latin American nations, the U.S. would intervene, and take the troublesome Europeans on the other side of the Atlantic.
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Landslides and tropical diseases made it extremely difficult to construct the canal. The project came to a completion in 1914, just as World War 1 broke out.
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San Francisco's school board ordered the segregation of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students in a special school to make room for whites. This soon boiled over into an international crisis. Japan was sensitive when it came to discrimination; Roosevelt forced San Francisco to repeal the offensive order and to accept what is known as the ¨Gentlemen's Agreement.¨
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This stated that American investment would be beneficial because it ensured the stability and good relationships between the U.S. and foreign nations.
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The popular new revolutionary president is murdered and replaced with General Victoriano Huerta, and Indian. This chaos resulted in a mass migration of Mexicans to the United States.
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Villa's men hauled sixteen American mining engineers off a train traveling through New Mexico and killed them. Villa's goal was to provoke war between Wilson and Carranza.
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German foreign secretary secretly proposed a German-Mexican alliance.
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Wilson's famous speech; his primary purpose was to reel Russia into war.
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the communistic Bolshevics withdrew their country from the war. This released hundreds of thousands of battle-tested Germans from the eastern front facing Russia for the western front in France, where they were developing a dangerous superiority in manpower.
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The German juggeraunt threatened to knock out France when smashing to within forty miles of Paris. American troops were thrown into the breach at Chateau-Thierry. This marked the first significant engagement of American troops in the European war.
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American men participated in a Foch counteroffensive. This marked the beginning of a German withdrawal that was never effectively reversed.
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Nine American divisions joined four French divisions to push the Germans from the St. Mihiel salient.
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Germany lays down their arms and their Kaiser was forced to flee to Holland, where he lived the remainder of his life. Americans rejoiced as the war to end wars was finally over.
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Resulted in a nationwide crusade against left-wingers whose Americanism was suspect.The Attorney General Palmer earned the title ¨Fighting Quaker¨, who ¨saw red¨ too easily, rounded up about six thousand suspects. This was a drive to root out radicals.
