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Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. William Howard Taft followed this idea -
Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
The United States battleship was blown up in an explosion which killed 260 men on board. They blamed the spanish but did really exactly know who it was or what is was that cuased teh explosion -
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Spanish American War
Demands by Cuban patriots for independence from Spanish rule made U.S. intervention in Cuba a paramount issue in the relations between the United States and Spain. Henry Cabot Lodged wanted to influnce of the us to spread to other nations -
Acquisition of Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines
In the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. -
Open Door Policy
A policy that gave equal trading rights to all foreign nations in china. Secretary of State John Hay had followed the idea of open door policy -
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Panama Canal
President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal, to decrease the distance and time voyages have to travel -
Roosevelt Corollary
It is an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Gavrilo Princip assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war. -
Start of wwi
The assassination led directly to the First World War -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank -
German Proclamation
General von Graevenitz in his proclamation he announced that selected men and women living in Lille were to be deported to surrounding areas for the purpose of working in the countryside -
Sussex Pledge
Was a promise made during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. to stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships -
Zimmerman Telegram
A telegram from germany to Mexico asking to form an alliance between them and to attack the US and in return prior to the war that they would get the land they lost california, through new mexico. -
U.S. Enters WWI
U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. And Germany sunk a civilian Boat -
Selective Service Act Passed
requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with locally administered draft boards for military conscription by national lottery. President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly accepted the recommendation for the new draft law by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker -
Espionage Act
provided penalties of 20 years imprisonment and fines up to $10,000 for those convicted of interfering with military recruitment this was protecting the United States against "the insidious methods of internal hostile activities." -
Wilson's 14 Points
outlined Fourteen Points for peace and the end to World War I. Wilson wanted lasting peace and for World War I to be the "war to end all wars." -
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Battle of Argonne
The final battle that the French and American forces saw an opportunity too end the war. The French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the Allied forces, ordered massive attacks against the Germans all along the western front -
End of WWI
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.