Imperialism Timeline

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  • Treaty of Kanagawa

    This opened trade with the US with Japan
  • William Mckinley

    He created the Open door policy
  • Spanish American war

    It officially started due to the sinking of the USS Maine
  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris was an agreement that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire, especially Cuba, and ceding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States
  • Boxer Rebellion

  • Open Door Policy

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt was an author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States
  • Panamanian Revolution

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    This kept the European powers out of the Dominican Republic
  • Portsmouth treaty

    The treaty that officially ended the Russo-Japanese war
  • Great White Fleet

    US naval fleet that completed a journey around the globe
  • William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft
    Elected
  • Mexican Revolution

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
  • Panama canal

    Opened in 1914, it was a canal created to connect the atlantic and pacific oceans
  • Poncho Villa Raids

    Several hundred Mexican Guerrillas under the control of Poncho Villa crossed the US Mexican border
  • Annexation of Hawaii and Alaska

    Both Hawaii and Alaska were declared the 49th and 50th states of the United States