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Following to the Monroe Doctrine, Taft would not allow foreign investors into Latin American markets.
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New York attacks the sweatshops by prohibiting cigar manufacturing on premises occupied as a residence.
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In the early 1900s, there is little regulation of the food or drugs that are available to the public, which goes on until 1905
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The Northern Securities Company, owned by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hll, controlls most of the railroads in the northwestern United States
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Congress passes the Newlands act, which allows the Federal government to sell public lands in the desert western states and devote the proceeds to irrigation projects.
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Congress passes the Elkins Act, which levies heavy fines on companies that engage in illegal rebating
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Eugene V. Debs, William Haywood, and Mary Harris Mother Jones organize the Industrial Workers of the World
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Which greatly strengthens the Interstate Commerce Comerce Commission
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Dollar diplomacy - the one goal was to preempt foreign powers from gaining or enlarging an investment.
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The deal was to propose that american bankers and industrials would purchase the Manchurian railroads from Japan and Russia, and would go back to Chinese control. The offer was refused.
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People were led by the radical Francisco Madero.
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Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives in a landslide vicorty in the congressional elections
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The Mexican revolution is led by Francisco Madero, and in 1911 they gain control of Mexico and appoint Madero president.
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American bankers and investors reorganize the Nicaraguan financial structure and begin to manage its customs service.
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Woodrow Wilson removes governmental support for American businesses operating in the Caribbean and China.
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The U.S. and five other nations offered the new Chinese Republic a huge loan.
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only the second Democratic President since 1861
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A group of 2,500 marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a rebellion, and they remain for 13 years due to continued instability.
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Roosevelt triumphantly return and announced himself as a challenger for the Rupublican presidential nomination
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The DOCL splits into two separate entities, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor
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Another revolutionary group in Mexico assassinates Madero: the leader of the coup, General Victoriano Huerta, then assume the presidency
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American investment in Mexico is well over a billion dollars, including significant ownership in railroads, oil resources, and mines.
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In an unprecedented move, Wilson personally appears before Congress to call a special session to discuss tariffs
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---allows the government to closely inspect companies engaged in interstate commerce, such as meatpackers and railroads
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The U.S. begin supplying weapons to Huerta's rivals, Venustiano Carranza and Francisco Pancho Villa. After intense internal and external pressure, President Huerta steps down as ruler of Mexico.
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The tensions in Europe that had been growing for many years culminate with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist organization.
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Outbreak of World War 1, Germany declares war on Russia.
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Trade between the United States and Germany drops off dramatically.
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The Haitian people are outraged by the oppressive nature of their President, so they rebell
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Germany sinks the British steamer Falaba, German submarine sinks Lusitania, Germany sinks the Arabic, another British liner, killing two Americans.
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Wilson signs the Jones Act of 1916, which promises the Philippines independence as soon as they are able to demonstrate that they have a stable government.
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Trying to end the military stalemate in Europe, Germany declares that they will wage unrestricted warfare against all shipping vessels in the war zone.
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United States enters war against Germany.
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The U.S. government establishes the Espionage Act of 1917.
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Wilson recalls General John J. Pershing and his men from Mexico.
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Congress passes the Sedition Act of 1918.
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Socialist Eugene V. Debs is convicted under the Espionage Act and is sentences to 10 years in a federal penitentiary for giving an anti-war speech.
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In August 1928, the Kellog-Biand Pact was signed in Paris.
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On January 30, 1933, Hitler became chancellor, and embarked on the plan he created in his autobiographical book, Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations.
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The Platt Amendment gives U.S. oversight authority over Cuba
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Helmuth Englebrecht's and Frank Hanighen's, The Merchants of Death
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The first Neutrality bill passed Congress with little debate in August 1935.
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The Third Reich begins re-armament program
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The Second Neutrality Act added an additional sanction to the first law, prohibiting loans to belligerents.
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By the time both Neutrality Acts were due, the Spanich Civil War was breaking out.
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The Third Neutrality Act kept the basic restrictions in cases of "civil strife".
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In an effort to settle the crisis, Hitler met with Chamberlain and Daladier at Munich in late September 1938.
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In November 1938, Americans were surprised by the news of "kristallnacht", -Nazi thugs, spurred on by black-shirted SS, rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods.
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After six weeks of bitter debate, the Fourth Neutrality law was passed over Republican protests.
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The Second World War commenced in Europe when German troops invaded Poland.
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The United States strengthened hemispheric defenses with the Declaration of Panama, drafted in October 1939
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During the ensuing "Battle of Britain", the German Luftwaffe rained destruction on the major cities in southern England.
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In January 1941, President Roosevelt urged further support to those nations fighting tyranny and fascism.
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By the fall of 1941, the Unites States was engaged in an undeclared naval war with Germany, Roosevelt ordered the navy to "shoot on sight" any German submarines after an American destroyer.
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French government recognizes Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh government as a 'free state"
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The America grants the Philippines independence.
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Chinese leaders agree to a settlement that ends the aggression in Korea.
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Operation AJAX forces Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh from power.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
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National Liberation Front stages attacks on South Vietnamese government.
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Khrushchev and V.P. Nixon have the "Kitchen Debate" at the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Moscow.
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1964, Civil Rights Acts
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