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  Empowers US to build Isthmian canal.
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  Teddy Roosevelt introduces corollary to Monroe Doctorine
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  Agreement recognizes Japanese Power in Korea.
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  Agreement vows to mantain status quo in the Pacific.
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  Bryan negotiates "cooling-off" treaties to end the war.
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  World War I begins.
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  US Marines take Veracruz.
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  Finished in 1914.
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  Japan issues 21 Demands to China.
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  Germany declares water around British Isles a war zone.
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  Lustiana ship was torpedoed.
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  Robert Lansing becomes secretary of state.
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  Germany issues the Sussex Pledge.
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  Pershing leads unsuccessful punitive expeditiuon into Mexico to seize Pancho Villa.
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  Wilson wins the re-election.
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  Germany resumes unrestired U-boat warfare.
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  Congress passes. Provides registration for all American Men between the ages of 21 and 30 for a military draft.
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  War Industries Board: Oversaw production of all American factories.
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  Wilson outlines Fourteen Points for peace.
 Fourteen Points: Far reaching, nonpunitive settlement of WWI.
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  Ends the War.
 Germany appealed to Wilson for the armistice, and signed it on november 11 to get out of the war.
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  Defeated in the Senate.
 One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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  Warren G. Harding elected president.