Interested in Hawaii because of sugarcane

1875 treaty developed for sugarcane, no one else could get some

1887 had navy rights to Pearl Harbor

1890 planed to take over Hawaii

January 1893 hawaii was annexed under Harrison

Cleaved revoked the annexation

1867 purchased Alaska

1878 got rights to a coaling station in Samoan Islands

(1894-1895)

Japan won an easy victory

but started problems between the Great Powers

was an naval officer, was on a rickety ship going to Latin America

read history

made America think about the role in the world

believe the oceans were not barriers but highways

said that coaling stations were needed

constructed a canal across Central America

wanted to annex Hawaii to put US in the Pacific

Imperialist 

wanted large foreign policy

nationalist interest

caused an open door policy

said that China should be able to trade with every country

so there would be no trade wars

national revolution in Cuba (Spain owned)

US was always interested in Cuba

only 90 miles away from Key West

could have been an easy invasion

used for coaling and sugar cane

but wanted Cuba to see its own potential

started by the sinking of the USS Maine

Spain surronds

we aquire the philapnees quam and puerto rico

but did not get Cuba (wanted independence)

fully armed

in the harbor, taking coal

it explodes

was in Cuba

made war the first thought

1914-1918

called World War 1

countries had treaties and alliances

the Great Powers declared war on each other over night

-draft so males between the ages of 18-21 were in the war

a generation was lost in Europe

war was started but thought to end shortly

started trench war-fare

beginning of the machine gun

chemical war-fare

US profited from the war (stayed neutral)

Wildrow declares war

2 ditches

the middle was no mans land

mines located in the middle

had barwire

horrible conditions

always wore a gas mask

elected in 1914

wants to stay neutral

provided weapons to both sides

provided food to both sides

sent money to France and Britian

1916 wins reelection

then declares war

Lusthina

passenger ship that was sunk

had mostly children and women on it

since most men were in the service

this was going to bring families together

Committee On Public Information

(CPI)

regulation of news

started propaganda here and over seas

George Creel

was the first zar of news

1917

collecting information and sending it to the enemy (a spy)

treason

could be passed at any time during a war 

Sedition Act

1918

could not talk about the government badly

governments could pass it during war

cant stop any selling of equipment during a time of war

arrested under both the Espionage and Sedition Act

told young man to resist the draft

put circulars in the mail

said the draft was against the 13th Amendment

the Supreme Court upheld his conviction 

serves 10 years in jail

editor of german newspapers

wrote about his disagreement with the war

it was one week after Scher

wrote "why are we fighting the war"

labor union party

sociolist (the president of the party)

caused mutiny within the arm forces

he believe the war was a capitalist plot

sentenced to 10 years in jail

ran for president from his jail cell

the rising of the 2nd KKK

came together in 1950

they were: anti-black, anti-jewish, anti-immigrants, anti-catholic, and anti-greek orthodocs 

wore the American Flag, and the Protestant Flag

to display strong nationalism

fear of foreigners

we would lose our culture 

high school biology teacher

taught evolution (illegal)

he knew it was wrong but the civil liberties group said they would rescue him 

served jail time

dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana

US demanded it was solved

The US involved was not consented with Venezuela

the British backed off

discovered that it needed to be part of the Great Powers

A theory widely held in the late 19th centry that the English-speaking peoples were racially superior, and for that reason, justified in colonizing and dominating the peoples of less-developed areas of the world

just like Social Darwinism it fueled expansionism

February 4, 1899

fighting broke out between Americans and Filipino patrols at the edge of Manila

American wanted Annexation 

There was a rebel leader named Aguinaldo showed that his country wanted independence

citizens were put together in towns

corps and villages were burned

ended in 1902 since we helped develop a civil administration