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as a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." wrote the book the inflence of sea power upon history
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The U.S, wated hawaii for thier sugar
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The United states claimed Hawaii on Jan. 17, 1893
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Queen Liluokalani opposed US relations before being overthrown by Sanford Dole.
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The Spanish–American War begins. War is officially declared by the United States and by Spain.
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The U.S. Congress declares war on Spain.
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In the first battle between Spanish and American Forces, U.S. Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
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U.S. forces defeat the Spanish at the Battle of San Juan Heights.
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U.S. forces destroy the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba.
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The Spanish surrender at Santiago
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U.S. troops land in Cuba.
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The U.S. and Spain sign the Protocol of Peace, ending hostilities between the two.
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The Treaty of Paris is signed by representatives from the U.S. and Spain. After extensive debate, the treaty is ratified by the U.S. senate on February 6, 1899. Under the treaty, the U.S. acquires control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
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Spain ratified the Treaty of Paris when the Queen Regent María Cristina signed the agreement to break the impasse of the deadlocked Cortes
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the boxer rebellion
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Open Door Policy statement of principles initiated by the United Statesn 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
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refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."
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Added to the monroe doctrine and was called the Roosevelt Corollary
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William Taft, take the U.S. dollar and invest it in other countries
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Mexico primarily was known as a place for American financial investment and as a land of frequent political turmoil.
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Germany invades Belgium, beginning World War I.
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Following the failure of a French construction team in the 1880s, the United States commenced building a canal across a 50-mile stretch of the Panama isthmus in 1904. The
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President Theodore Roosevelt got credit for the canal even though he waas no longer president when the project was over
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A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.
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First Tanks The British employ the first tanks ever used in battle, at Delville Wood. Although they are useful at breaking through barbed wire and clearing a path for the infantry, tanks are still primitive and they fail to be the decisive weapon, as their designers thought they would be.
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U.S. Enters War
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A "Red Scare" is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
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Zimmerman Telegram
British intelligence gives Wilson the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. -
Posion gas, trench throwers, subs
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An Armistice is signed ending fighting on the Western Front.
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good neighbour policy
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mperial Japan; constitutional policy with the emperor as reigning monarch; industrialization, urbanization, and an increasingly mobile society; drive for international status and world power, including imperialism in Asia and finally war with the United States.
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alaska was declared a state on january third 1959
