us expansionism timeline

  • german procolmation

    german procolmation
    when they declared war on purassia and capture it and move on to france and russia but the made a procolomation to give it back
  • open door policy

    open door policy
    made the equal tradeing withchina so other contents could trade with them
  • philippines

    fought against the u.s fo there indipendence and ended loseing
  • roosevelt cerollary

    was made by roosevelt to show other countries that they walk quietly and carry a big stick
  • dollar diplomacy

    dollar diplomacy
    it gave loans to other countries and wich then caused intrest and then they had influnce over them
  • assasination of archduke franz ferdinand

    assasination of archduke franz ferdinand
    the arch duke was assasinated by an assasin from siberia causeing an outbreak in war
  • start of ww1

    start of ww1
    was started because of the assasination of the arch duke there fore they attacked siberia and then russia got involved and the the british did to causeing outbreak of war
  • panama canal

    panama canal
    was created to make transportation easyer a gift from panama it cost 400million to build it and 1000 lives also took 10 years to build
  • end of wwi

    world war 1 ended because of the treaty of versi that they singhned and also germany had to pay 300 billion in reperations and take the blame for the whole thing
  • sinking of lusitina

    sinking of lusitina
    german u boat sunk british passenger ship killing 120 americans therfore causeing the u.s to get mad and maybe declare war
  • sussex pledge

    sussex pledge
    was a pledge the germans made and promissed to stop sinking ships and but they still kept doing it afterwards
  • zimmerman telegram

    zimmerman  telegram
    british intelegence interceppts telegram from germany to mexico witch says if mexico started a war that they would give them back there land
  • u.s enters ww1

    u.s enters ww1
    joins because of of the sinking of the lusitina and the telegram sent from germany to mexico
  • selective service act

    selective service act
    it was the draft used to get citizens in the army because we had a strong navy but not that much of an army
  • wilsons 14 points

    wilsons 14 points
    were rules made to keep countries at peace but the us did not join the leage of nations because they thounght we would have to go to war unneserly if on of the members went to war