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Hawaii
hawaii was annexed by the united states in 1898 and sanford dole would later become the mayor of Hawaii. sugar and pineapple plantations were built by the US settlers. in response to the queen liliuokalani trying to take back political power, american land owners overthrew the queen -
Sinking of the USS main
The USS main was blown up and sunk in 1898 in the havana harbour. No one is for sure who sunck the USS main but cuba was being held responsible and this lead to the spanish american war. -
spanish-American
The war began when america got in the middle of cuba's independence movement. America wanted to purchase a 10 mile strip of land to build the panama canal but cuba said that in order to puchase it america would have to give a hand in recieving independace from spain. -
the spanish- american war.
America ended the war by allowing spain to sign an agreement saying they will grant cuba it freedom and that they have to hand over guam,philippines, and puerto rico. Now that america ownes these pieces of land, they now have a naval advantage. -
Guam
Guam was taken by the US in 1898, Guam was important to spanish ships crossing the pacific. -
open door policy
this policy states that all countries have trading righs in china. This was mainly used to open asian markets to US businesses. -
roosevelt corollary
Created by Teddy Roosevelt, the roosevelt corolarry banned european countries to collect debt using force. It stated that the US would act as an internatinal police force. -
dollar diplomacy
This dollar diplomacy was started by president Taft and this encouraged for countries to invest in caribbean countrues. Dollar diplomacy also stated that if a country owed money to the carribbean before american owed them, then that monry would have to be given to america or america would send in troops until they didi -
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavriolo Princip of serbia, this caused the start of world war one. -
Beginning of WW1
Because of the tangles of european alliances and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, WW1 broke out.
trench war fare / posion gas / machine guns / tanks and airplans are all used and results in a very deadly war. -
panama canal
The u.s wanted land in panama to build a canal. The united states bought the land and supported a revolution to get the 10 mile strip of land. President Roosevelt had a hand in getting the piece of land -
German Proclamation
the german proclamation was a public service anouncement saying not to sail in the britsh isles or else they would be sunk. This intervined with america because america traded with britain over seas -
sinking of the Lusitania
The lusitania was a british passenger ship and was sunk by the german submarines. more than 1000 people were killed and around 120 were americans. This gave america more of a reason to be involved in the world war, and possibly end it alot faster. -
sussex pledge
This was a pledge made by germany saying that they promise not to sink anymore merchant ships without warning, at this point germany dosnt want america to enter the war. -
Unristricted sub warfare continues
Germany continues to use submarines to sink ships and is not following their own pledge, this is tempting the united states even more -
zimmerman telegraph
the zimmerman telegraph is what makes america officialy involved in the war. it was intercepted by the british from the germans saying that they were planning to team with mexico to attack america and retrive the land mexico once owned. -
when the U.S. enters the war
when america joins the war they create a draft called the select service act. America joins the fight with great britian and france -
select service act
it was made on may 18, 1917. the draft requied men between 21-30 to enlist in the army and fight in the war. -
woodrows 14 points
these were points made by u.s. president woodrow wilson, and he believed that these points will resolve europes peace problem after ww1. -
end of ww1
germany loses and is punished with the treaty of versailles. woodrow wilson also decided to make give his opinion and made woodros wilson's fourteen points, which gave his opinion on how peace could be made in europe and how germany could be punished. -
signing of the treaty of versailles
the treaty of versailles ended ww1 and it basically said that germany is to pay for the war, finacialy, germany was to lose land and majority of thier land. woodrow saw this as too harsh but the treaty was still passed. -
Philippines
the philippines was purchashed by the US from spain for 20 million dollars. These philippines people were struggling for independence from spain and finally got it.
