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Seward Folly or Seward's Icebox
A treaty with Russia minister to purchase Alaska with 7.2 M dollars with the secretary of state to annex Alaska into the united states Keeping up with the Monroe Doctrine by removing foreign powers -
Fighting the S.A.W
First shot were shot at manila bay in the Philippines far away from Cuba, only lasted a couple months were the U.S won without fail and was called a splendid little war -
Open door Policy
Sphere of influences which had all world powers stationed in china for commerce and trading ports.
Hayes second round notes-Preserve china's integrity. Equal and impartial trade with all of china -
Causes of war S.A.W
Jingoism(An intense form of nationalism calling for aggressive foreign policy) was spreading a muck within the society and wanted the U.S to become a world power like Europe as well -
Alfred Thayer Mahan (The influence of sea power upon history)
The most important american strategist who suggested that having a strong naval power allowed for the british to become a world power -
Yellow Press S.A.W.
Pulitzer and Randolph spread exaggerated false atrocities of the Spanish on Cuba which caused the people to urge the u.s to intervene and stop the suffering -
Cuban Revolt S.A.W.
Cuban nationalist came up with the idea of sabotaging the plantations so either Spain withdraws or the U.S gets involved, Spain counters by sending troops led by Valeriano Weyler -
McKinley's Annexation of Hawaii
McKinley and congress saw the opportunity of annexing Hawaii to the U.S. one the war with the Philippines was underway -
De Lome Letter
This letter was by the Spanish minister who was very critical on McKinley which was put on the front of newspapers and seen as an insult to the U.S -
Sinking of Maine S.A.W.
Battleship Maine exploded which killed 260 Americans which was then blamed on the Spanish as on purpose, later to be found that it was an accident -
McKinley's war message S.A.W
Put end to Horrible treatment on Cubans.Protect the lives of U.S citizens in Cuba.Injury to trade and commerce.Menace to the peace from the disorders in Cuba. -
Teller Amendment
The U.S would not intervene and take political control but instead let the Cubans control over their own government once the peace is restored. -
P.A.W beginning
The Treaty of Paris was signed were the U.S spent 20M to allow the cession from Spain into a U.S territory as it became annexed, which caused the Filipinos to become irritated and rebelled for their own freedom -
Hawaii Territory
Hawaii now became a territory of the united states after overthrowing of the queen. -
Boxer Rebellion
Xenophobia, Chinese nationalist-society of harmonious fists, attacked foreign settlements and murdered dozens of Christian missionaries, Troops rushed and marched into Peking and succeeded to tranquilize the rebellion -
Big Stick Policy
Theodore Roosevelt's aggressive foreign policy trying to build a reputation of the U.S as a world power -
Big Stick Caused the Roosevelt Corollary
Adapted to the Monroe Doctrine, to show that the U.S can be represented as a world power, U.S stood up to Britain as it was after debt in Venezuela and said that they would deal with it instead sending gunboats to collect taxes to repay Britain. -
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
A treaty to cancel another treaty that was once added which was a joint Brit-U.S control, this new treaty allowed the U.S to build the canal without British involvement. -
The End of the P.A.W
Emilio Aguinaldo once fought with the united states for freedom but then rebelled as they soon found out that they would be apart of the U.S not gaining their freedom. Took 3 years as they used guerrilla tactics -
Revolution in the Panama Canal
Due to the in-acceptance that Colombia had and not wanting to give up land, The U.S supported a rebellion which was backed by the U.S which Caused Colombia to give up -
Russo-Japanese war
Japan and Russia agrees to the treaty of Portsmouth after the Japanese won but the Japanese nationalist blame the U.S for not being able to claim all that they wanted from Russia -
Dollar Diplomacy
William Taft made a policy that was to adopt a foreign policy that was to promote U.S trading by supporting American enterprises abroad. -
Tampico Incident
To aid the revolutionary faction fighting Huerta, the U.S set up a blockade to remove the damage but soon some american sailors were arrested on the land then release but with no apology U.S was Mad. -
Economical links with Britian and france
Since britains blockade did not allow trade with Germany, the U.S had a stronger will to trade with the allied powers qaudroupling their trade while the german trade dwindled this also caused J.P Morgan and other bankers to Loan the allied powers 3B -
Public Opinion
Most people were for nuetrality but they were mostly favoring there homeland which germans in the U.S faced towards germany but the onslaught of British Propaganda made the public opinion favor in their side by giving false atrocities of what german did not commit -
Submarine Warfare
Luisiana crisis where the germans torpedoed a british ship where 128 americans were killed and strongly worded letter was sent by wilson causing the secretary of state william jennings to quit due the sense of war that the message carried -
Pancho Villa & U.S Expeditionary force
Villa led raids that killed lots of people in Texas and New Mexico and President Wilson sent out his expeditionary forces to retrieve Villa but failure to do so and an imminent growth of going to WW1 -
Selective forces Act
Secretary of war Newton D. Baker was devised to get all people of the population to get into a lottery that once called them to join the army forces and head to war -
Espionage and sedation acts
it was imprisonment for anyone who opposed the army and the draft and also a year later imprisoned people who talked bad about the government -
Declaration of war
Wilson proposed that the submarine policy was warfare against humankind which led to the congress to vote yes to war and that The world must be safe for democracy -
The Red Scare
Anti-German turned to Anti-Communist Hysteria
Palmer Raids-Mass arrests and deportation of anarchist, socialists, and labor agitators, most were foreign born -
Peace
The fourteen points where they made the seas fair trade for everyone and that a new league of nations would arise.
The treaty of Versailles where they limited the rights of the german and the other opposing forces and held them countable for starting the war. -
Hawaii State
Finally Hawaii has been completely engulfed and has became the fiftieth state of america in the union
