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sinking of the u.s.s maine
*it was sent to cuba, to protect u.s citizens during the cuban war of independence
*William randolph hearst published "Remember the main ! to hell with spain
*Hearst influence america by the uproar caused by the desruction of maine
*yellow press exploited the story, whipping the u.s into an anti spanish frenzy
*people would yell out "remeber the maine -
Open Door Policy
*Cause-they wanted to build an empire
*united states did not have a sphere of influence of the economic activites.
*protect american businessmen & investors that american would shut out of china by the european powers
*u.s participation would oppose any attempt by other nations to use the boxer rebellion as an excuse to dismember china -
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Dollar Diplomacy
*promote american foreign policy
*make america more money
took place in caribbean region
* u.s bankers baned money to latin america countries if they couldnt repay loans u.s marines were sent in to asure repay payment by force' -
Sinking Of Lusintina
*2:12 p.m. on May 7 the 32,000-ton ship was hit by an exploding torpedo on its starboard side0
*When it was sunk in 1915, the ocean liner was on the return leg of its 101st roundtrip voyage across the Atlantic. -
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Stanford B Dole
*his relation w/u.s.- Him & His family made the dole pineapple company *effects-played a prominet & active role in the overthrown of queen liluokalomi
* Gov 1900-1903
*connections - family had pineapple plantations
led the provisional Gov. while it workedout plans for the u.s to annex the island durning spanish american war -
Roosevelt Corollary
*was created by the Theodore Roosevelt
*Convinced that all of Latin america was vulnerable to European attack
*President Roosevelt dusted of the Monroe Doctrine and added his own carollary was used to justify US blocked further expansion of the Europe in the western Hemisphere Was used to justify Us intervention through the Hemisphere -
Expanding World Power
*In this time period. America Cahnges thier view frominternal expanision and domestic issues to becoming both a global force both economically and military -
Spanish-American war
*Was conflict between the US and Spain
*The War Was to end Spanish Colonial rule in the us and a chance -
Espionage Act
*The law was extended on may 16 , 1918 by the sedition act of 1918 - actually a set of admendments to the espoinage act - which prohibited many from spain -
Fourteen Point Plan
*The fourteen point plan ideas were distributedworld wide by the government
*Millions of copies of booklets and phamphlets that explained wilsons plans were distributed to allied nations and dropped from planes of germany
*allies agreed to agreed to accept the fourteen points as the basis for the country peace negotiations if wilson would agree to two reservations -
Henry Cabot
*served as U.S Representatives
*Imperialism
*he felt that to safe guard its own interest U.S had to skate out spheres of econmic influence
*Lodge had influence to the senate to expand elect and essential security -
Battle Of the Argonne Forest
*Battle 1918 near the Belgian border
*it was 600,000 soilders and 40,000 of artillery
*It shatterd the German defense and open a hole in germany lines
*was final and most important battle of the AFF
*The overall was the several Medal Honors awarded at the battle -
German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
*germany being starved or food and raw materials by the britsh naval blockade that had been in place since august 1914
*u.s industrial production capacity which couold be turned over wholly to war production for the allies
*U.S man power which would provide millions new troops for america armies on the western front -
San Juan Hill
*Was a decicisive Battle of spanish-americn War
*The San Juan heights was a North-South running elevation about 2 kilometers east of santiago De Cuba -
Rough riders
*A Volnteer force known as rough rider
*they defeted spanish forces at San Juan in cuba
*in 4 months -
Zimmerman Telegram
*Inteernal diplomatic communication issued from the Germany Forien office in jan 1917 -
The American Expeditionary Force
*Consisted of the unitedd states army forces sent to europe
*under the commending general john, pershing in 1917 to help ww1
*they were called the dough boys
*the commanding general was john j pershing -
Alvin York
*was ordered to take his squad on a suprise attack
*his heroic actions help lead to the ending of the battle of arogonne forest to sergeant
*Honors and awrded the congressional medal or honor -
Schneck V. U.S
when america entered world war 1 congress passed a law called the esponaige act violating the first admendment schneck was convinced for distributing lititure thst encouraged men to resist the draft schneck claimed his first admendment right to freedom of speech had been violated. supreme court ruled that there were limits to free speech had been violated -
Panama Canal
*colombia owned it first
*reason they needed the canal laws because it provided a new route for international trade and military transport
*22k people died -
Sussex Pledge
*Germany Attack ship and killed more than 50 people
*germany pledged not to sink anymore ocean liners with out warning or providding help for passengers but broke this pledge by sinking the lusintinia -
WW1
*leading mid august to the outbreak of ww1 which pitted germany austria-hungary and the ottoman empire
*MAIN
*militarism,alliances,imeralism,nationalism:was occuring in europe while lead to the beginning of ww1
*but the assination of arch duke franz fernandiaz was the spark that statred ww1 -
Supreme Court
*the first admendment violated when congress makes a law that punishs opinons against the war
*congress passed a law called to esponaige act which said that durning war time obstructing the draft was a crime
*the court ruled that there are limits to free speech is not protected from falsely should "FIRE' crowded theater and causing panic -
League of nations
*intergovernmaent organization as a result of paris peace conference
*purpose was to maintain world peace
*weakness-lacked there own armed forces they depended on the great powers but they were reluctant to help
*the leauge serverly weakedned major powers, such as russia failed to join