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German Proclamation
On 19 July 1870, France declared war on Prussia. It capitulated at Sedan on 2 September. Prussia then invaded France. On 19 September, it besieged Paris and the first Prussian troops arrived in Versailles. -
sinking of the uss submarine
USS Maine (ACR-1), commissioned in 1895, was the first United States Navy ship to be named after the state of Maine. -
Acquisition of Hawaii
annexed as a territory in 1898, sanford dole would become governer. hawaii would become a state in 1959. it was created January 17, 1893. -
Open Door Policy
John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers. -
theodore roosevelt
The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. -
Dollar Diplomacy
the effort of the United States particularly during President William Howard Taft's term its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. From 1909 to 1913, President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.” -
Beginning of World War I
Battle of the Frontiers begins -
panama canal
August 15, 1914, marks the 100th anniversary of the official opening of the Panama Canal, the American-built waterway Pacific oceans. us wanted land in panama to build the canal, bought 10 miles of panama land. -
Failure of Diplomacy
A Japanese torpedo bomber over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. -
sussex pledge
The Sussex Pledge was a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war. -
Zimmerman Telegram
In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. -
U.S. Enters World War I
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. -
espionage act
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. -
battle of argonne forest
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.
