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Annexation of Hawaii
A treaty exepted Hawaiian sugar from U.s Tariffs. In exchange, Hawaii promised not to grant territory or speical privlileges in the islands to any other country, even though the U.S wanted Pearl Harbor. -
Annexation of the Philippines
It was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the United States which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following annexation by the United States. The war was part of a series of conflicts in the Philippine struggle for independence, preceded by the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish-American War. -
The Maine Incident
The battleship Maine was attacked by an unknown explosion. The Americans had no doubt in their mind that it was the Cuban people. -
Spanish-American War
The mysterious siking of the battleship Maine created powerful political pressures -
The Boxer Rebellion
In the spring of 1900 the Boxers attacked Western missonaries and traders in northern china, killing more than 200 people. -
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, that established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. It was named after its two primary negotiators, Phillipe Bunau-Varilla, the French diplomatic representative of Panama, and United States Secretary of State John Hay. -
Rooselvelt Corollary
President Theodore Roosevelt's addition to the Monroe Doctrine; stated that the United STates would police affairns in the WEstern Hemisphere to keep Europeans from interventing in the region. -
Building the Panama Canal
The resulting Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty secured American rights to construct and maintain the canal in Panama. Bunau-Varilla, now a wealthy man, returned to his native France. Roosevelt would later boast about the signal event of his presidency by proclaiming, “I took Panama.” Colombia was understandably outraged by the United States' naked manipulation and other Latin nations viewed the northern giant with mounting suspicion. -
The Great White Fleet
The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the Unted States Navy battle fleet that completed a cicrumnagivation of the Globe from December 16th ,1907 to Feburary 22 ,1909 by order of U.s President Theodore Roosevelt. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squardrons, along with various escorts.Roosevelet sought to deomostrate growing american Military power and blue-water navy capability. -
Dallar Diplomacy
The term used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.It was also used in Liberia, where American loans were given in 1913. It was then known as a dollar diplomacy because of the money that went into being able to have sol have soldiers paid without any fighting, as most people would say was quite small wages -
Occupation of Vera Cruz
On April 21, 1914, before the U.S. Congress had the opportunity to approve President Wilson’s request for authority to intervene in Mexico, the president acted. Wilson had received word that a German ship was approaching the port city of Vera Cruz and was laden with a huge arms shipment for the Victoriano Huerta regime. The president ordered the immediate occupation of Vera Cruz. Fighting was fierce; more than 300 Mexicans and about 90 Americans were killed.
