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Acquisition of Guam
The U.S. Navy sent a single cruiser, the USS Charleston, to capture the island of Guam, then under Spanish control. However, the Spanish garrison on the island had no knowledge of the war and no real defenses. They surrendered without resistance. -
Sinking of U.S.S. Maine
The United States battleship was blown up in an explosion which killed 260 men on board. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
Roosevelt Corollary
an addition to the Monroe Doctrine by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. The corollary states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European countries and Latin American countries -
Dollar Diplomacy
The effort of the United States—particularly during President William Howard Taft's term—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand is assassinated by Serb nationalists in 1914. This was the immediate cause of the War. Officials in Serbia, a neighboring Slavic State, secretly planned the assassination of the Archduke. -
Panama Canal
A ship canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The building of the Canal has helped to greatly increase trade flow and took over 33 years to complete. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sunk in 1915. A German Submarine was responsible for killing more than 1,000 passengers, including 128 Americans. This outraged the U.S. -
Sussex Pledge
The Germans promise that they will no longer sink any merchant ships without warning (this is after the sinking of the Lusitania), but they do not keep their promise. -
Espionage Act
It was intended to prohibit interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of U.S. enemies during wartime. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
Battle of the Argonne Forest was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Acquistion of Hawaii
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state.
