Imperialism and WW1

  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War
    Dupuy de Lome was a Spanish minister in Washington who wrote a letter that described McKinley in decidedly unflattering terms. The resulting uproar after Heart publicized this private letter forced his resignation, further infuriated the American public, and helped spark the Spanish-American War.
  • Alaska

    Alaska
    Alaska was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan

    Alfred Thayer Mahan
    Alfred Thayer Mahan published The Influence of Sea Power upon History
  • Hawaii

    Hawaii
    Queen Liliuokalani opposed the US wanting Hawaii for business so Sanford B.Dole overthrew her
  • Hawaii

    Hawaii
    US wanted Hawaii for business and so Hawaiian sugar could be sold in the US duty free.
  • Spanish- American War

    Spanish- American War
    Cubans began to fight for independence from Spain
  • The Spanish- American war

    The Spanish- American war
    The Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain
  • Hawaii

    Hawaii
    William Mckinley convinced congress to annex Hawaii
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War
    American battleship dispatched to keep a friendly watch over Cuba in early 1898. It mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, with a loss of 260 sailors. Although many Americans eager for war insisted that it was the fault of the Spanish submarine mine
  • China

    China
    Boxer Rebellion a rebellion in Bejing started by a secret society of chinese who opposed the foreign devils
  • Philippine-American War

    Philippine-American War
    Armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899 to July 2, 1902.
  • Philippine-American War

    Philippine-American War
    The ensuing Philippine-American War lasted three years and resulted in the death of over 4,200 American and over 20,000 Filipino combatants.
  • China

    China
    Spheres of influence china was heavily controlled by foreign nations who dominated ports
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War
    The Foraker act gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government. The first comprehensive Congressional effort to provide for governance of territories acquired after the Spanish-American war, it served as a model for a similar act adopted for the Philippines
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War
    A badly divided Supreme Court ordered in these cases that the constitution didn't follow the flag; in other words, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos wouldn't necessarily enjoy all American rights. This was known as insular cases
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    the US successfully pressured the Cuban government to write this amendment into its constitution. It limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled its debt, and stipulated that the US could intervene militarily to restore order when it saw fit. This was called the Plat Amendment
  • Big Stick Diplomacy

    Big Stick Diplomacy
    Refers to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy: "speak softly, and carry a big stick."
  • Panama canal

    Panama canal
    Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal.
  • Big Stick Diplomacy

    Big Stick Diplomacy
    The Great White Fleet is a group of american warships, that toured the world inn a show of peaceful strength is a leading example of Big Stick Diplomacy
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Dollar Diplomacy
    This refers to the use of diplomacy to promote US commercial interest and economic power abroad by guaranteeing loans made to strategically important foreign countries.
  • World War One

    World War One
    A global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
  • World War One

    World War One
    World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.
  • World War One

    World War One
    July 28th 1914 Austria declared War on Serbia
  • World War One

    World War One
    August 1st 1914 Germany declared war on Russia
  • World War One

    World War One
    August 4th 1914 Britain declares war on germany
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    Was built to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa.
  • Mexico

    Mexico
    An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American army to seize the port of Veracruz known as Tampico incident
  • World War One

    World War One
    May 23rd 1915 Italy declared war on Austria and Germany
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    The name given to a period of anti-radical hysteria and the fear that anarchists,socialists, and communists were conspiring to start a workers revolution in the USA
  • Mexico

    Mexico
    President Wilson sent this man John Pershing with his army to Mexico to Pancho Villa
  • World War One

    World War One
    Treaty of Versailles signed by germans
  • Japan

    Japan
    Japanese Internment camps were established by Franklin Roosevelt through his executive order 9066