US Expansionism-Stephanie Ibarra

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    US Expansionism

  • Sinking of the USS Maine

  • Spanish American War

  • Acquisition of Guam

  • Acquisition of Philippines

  • Acquisition of Hawaii

    Extented U.S territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power.
    -Sanford Dole would become mayor
    -Sugar and pineapple plantations made by US settlers

  • Open Door Policy

    -Policy that states, all countries have trading rights in China -Used to open Asian markets to US busnisses

  • Start of WWl

  • End of WWl

  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

  • Panama Canal

    A large canal connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Its considered a major engineering feat but also reflects the United States aggressive foreign policy during the early 20th century.

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    -An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902-03

  • Dollar Diplomancy

    -The effort of the United States particularly during President William Howard Taft's term to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Beginning of WWI

  • German Proclamation

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • Unrestricted Sub Warface Continues

  • Sussex Pledge

  • Zimmerman Telegraph

  • When the US entered WWI

  • Selective Service Act of 1917