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