America Becomes A World Power

By Chuck_H7
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    America becomes a world power

  • McKinley Tariff

    Raised prices of sugsr, this effected proffitable Hawaiian sugar.

  • Baltimore Crises

    U.S. almost goes to war with Chile over two deaths of American sailors.

  • Cuban insurrection begins

    Cubans revolt against Spain.

  • Battleship Maine exploded

    The cause was unknown, Spanish investigators suggested it was caused by an accidental explosion, but the America didn't beleive it and wanted to fight Spain.

  • Roosevelt tells Commodore George Dewey to take the Philipines

  • McKinly asks congress to Declare war aginst Spain

  • Teller Amendment

    Promised to give Cuban freedom after the U.S. overthrew the Spanish.

  • Hawaii is annexed

  • Spain signs Armstice

  • American troops capture Manila

    Worked with Filipino insurgents led by Emilio Aguinaldo.

  • Filipinos rebel against America

  • McKinley is elected

  • McKinley assasinated

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Construction Panama Canal begins

  • Theodore Roosevelt reelected

  • Aldrich-Vreeland Act

  • Taft becomes president

  • Panama Canal Tolls Act of 1912

  • Revisions to Panama Canal Tolls Act of 1912

  • Archduke Ferdinand Assasinated

    Spark to start World War I

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

    The official start to WW I

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France

  • England declares war on Germany after their invasion of Belgium

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia

  • Serbia declares war on Germany

  • Panama Canal officialy opened

  • Battle of Tannenberg begins

  • Battle of Marne begins

    Trench warfare begins.

  • Battle of Ypres begins

  • Unofficial Christmas Truce is declared

  • Second battle of Ypres begins

    First battle in which Germans use poison gas.

  • Battle of Gallipoli begins

  • Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat

  • Battle of Verdun begins

    Longest and one of the bloodiest battles of WWI.

  • Battle of Jutland

    This was the major naval battle of the war.

  • Battle of Somme begins

    This battle is when tanks are first brought into battle.

  • Treaty signed with Haiti

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Germany sends a message to Mexico to convince them to join the war, the message is intercepted by the British.

  • Jones Act

    Puerto Ricans become U.S. citizens.

  • Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark

  • America declares war on Germany

  • Third Battle of Ypres begins

  • 17th Amendment passed

  • Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace

  • Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk

    This is a peace treaty between Russia and the Central Powers.

  • German Red Baron is shot down

  • Second battle of the Marne begins

  • Germany signs armistice at Compiegne, France

    This is when the fighting stops, though the war isn't officially over.