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Alfred Thayer Mahan
American naval officer and historian and an important naval analyists. Described to be the most important American 19th strategists -
Alaska
Alaska was purchased from Russia, giving the US fish, timber, oil, gold -
Hawaii Monarchy Overthrown
group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate -
Annexation of Hawaii
US wanted Hawaii for business so sugar could be sold duty free, the Queen opposed and McKinley convinced Congress to annex Hawaii -
Spanish- American War
US declared war on Spain -
Battle of San Juan Heights
US defeat the Spanish -
Spanish American War
Spanish Surrender at Santiago -
Treaty of Paris
U.S. acquires control over Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Significant: turning point -
Spanish- American War
US destroy Spanish fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba -
Protocol of peace
ending hostilities between Spanish and the US -
Battle of Manilla Bay
The US destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron
Significance: US victory -
Philippines
Philippines declare themselves as an independent state causing a war with the US
Significance: leads to Treaty of Paris -
Phillipne- American War
shooting on the outskirts of Manila
Significance: started the war -
Open Door Note
notes written by John Hey to Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Japan protesting equal economic access to China
Significance: All powers except Japan accepted causing Japan to pass Twenty- One Demands -
Boxer Rebellion
rebellion in China against foreigners
Significance: led to no formal division and Chinese had to pay compensation to world powers -
Big Stick Policy
policy asserting US domination when such domination was considered moral imperative
Significance: US became the police of smaller nations with unstable governments -
Panama Canal
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Significance: granted exclusion rights to the US -
Samar
Battle of the Philippine- American War
Significance: last organized resistance against US -
Big Stick Policy
brokered the Treaty of Portsmouth
Significance: ended the Russo- Japanese War -
Russo-Japanese War
Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy
Significance: turning point in Japanese history -
Dollar Dipolamcy
ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interests there
Significance: supported overthrow of Jose Santos Zeleya -
Panama Canal
construction project to link the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
Significance: expanded global trade routes -
World War I
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Significance:beginning of many military and civilian technologies -
World War I
Austria- Hungary declared war on Serbia
Significance: start of WWI -
First Battle of Marne
allied troops pushed Germans back to to north of the Aisle River
Significance: allied victory -
World War I
Sinking of Lusitania
Significant: US officially involved in war -
Gallipoli Campaign
Allied powers launched a large scale land invasion on Gallipoli Peninsula
Significance: allied lost causing a retreat -
World World I
Russian Revolution
Significance: halted Russia involvement in the war -
World War I
Treaty of Versailles
Significance: ended WWI -
Red Scare
people were very patriotic and social agitation of left-wingers
Significant: McCarthyism
