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The USS Maine, stationed in Havanna, Cuba, exploded with no warning.
People Involved: Captain James Forsythe
Impact: Started the Spanish-American War -
The US declared war on Spain in retaliation for the sinking of the USS Maine
People Invovled: Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst
Impact: The US and Spain went to war, Spain would lose. -
Hawaii was made an official territory of the United States.
People Involved: William Mckinley (President at the time)
Sanford Dole (mayor of the Hawaiian territory)
Impact: Gave the US large sugar and pinapple plantations. -
The US defeated Spain in the Spanish American War.
People Involved: Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, William R, Day.
Impact: The US acquired much Spanish Territory. -
The Treaty of Paris gave control of the Philippines to the US from Spain.
People involved: William R. Day (Chairman for the Treaty of Paris)
Queen-Regent Maria Christina (Queen of Spain)
Impact: Expanded US economic influence in the Pacific. -
Guam became a US Territory in the Treaty of Paris.
People Involved: William R. Dayy (Chairman of the Treaty of Paris)
Queen-Regent Maria Christina (Queen of Spain)
Impact: Guam became a naval outpost for the US, giving the US a military presence in the Pacific. -
China was allowed equal trade with other countries.
People Involved: Secretary of State John Hay
Impact: China was open to trade and investment. -
Roosevelt's amendment to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the US would intervene on European claims to Latin America.
People Involved: Theodore Roosevelt
Impact: The US was exercising its "international policing power". -
The US would use troops to protect investments if debts could not be repaid.
People Involved: President William Howard Taft, Secretary of State Philander C. Knox.
Impact: Gave the US a monopoly on Latin American resources. -
The US began directly funding investments to retain economic stability, ending the Dollar Diplomacy policy.
People Involved: President Taft, Secretary of State Knox
Impact: The US had lost several rebellions by locals, proving dollar diplomacy a failure. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austriaa was shot by Serbian Gavriolo Princip.
People Involved: Franz Ferdinand, Gavriolo Princip.
Impact: Caused WWI. -
Germany declares war on Serbia and Russia, starting World War One.
People involved: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicolas II
Impact: World War One began. -
The Panama Canal was opened for use, after a decade of construction.
People Involved: Theodore Roosevelt (commissioned it)
John Frank Stevens (Chief engineer)
George W. Goethals (Chief engineer after Stevens)
Impact: Made for a cheaper, shorter trade route for oceanic trade, gave the US control over the trade of European and Asian countries. -
Germany declares the waters around the British Isles a warzone.
People Involved: The German Admiralty, President Woodrow Wilson.
Impact: Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. -
The RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U Boat, killing 1,198, 128 of whom were Americans.
People Involved: Captain William Thomas Turner, Raimund Weisbach.
Impact: Brought the US closer to war. -
Germany pledges to not attack merchant or passenger ships without warning.
Impact: Restricted Sub Warfare. -
Germany goes back on the Sussex Pledge, and Unrestricted Sub Warfare resumes.
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A German telegram to Mexico was intercepted by Britian, revealing that Germany planned to have Mexico attack the US in exchange for land lost to America.
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