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Spanish American War and Foreign Affairs

Yellow journalism

The sinking of the USS Maine

U.S. gaining the Panama Canal

Missionary diplomacy

Imperialism

Anti-Imperialist League

The U.S. sent a warship, the USS Maine, to Cuba under captain Charles D. Sigsbee. The Maine's mission was purportedly friendly, its job to investigate the situation and provide an escape for American before things get out of hand. The real mission of the Maine was geared towards protecting U.S. interests. The true nature of the USS Maine explosion has long been one of the great mysteries of American history.

Woodrow Wilson's Missionary Diplomacy was basically devised to discredit and take away recognition from states who expressed conflictual arguments with the United States. By the United States' good will and morality, these missionary tasks were supposedly in order of improving the lots of developing nations.

The Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the U.S. and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United states. At first, yellow journalism had nothing to do with reporting, but instead derived from a popular cartoon strip about life in New York's slums called Hogan's Alley, drawn by Richard F. Outcault.

Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Later on U.S. and Great Britain negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to reign in rivalry over a proposed canal through the Central America Republic of Nicaragua. The French attempted to build a canal trough Panama advanced further.

The Anti-imperialist league formed to fight U.S. annexation of the Philippines, citing a variety of reasons ranging from the economic to the legal to the racial to the moral. It included among its member such notables as Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, William James, David Starr Jordan, and Samuel Gompers with George S. Boutwell, former secretary of the Treasury and Massachusetts, as its president. Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the league began to decline ad eventually disappeared.

Imperialism refers to a policy, typically implemented by a nation or strong central government, featuring the extensive use of power, often through military means. The goal of imperialism is to exercise economic and political control over a dependent territory.

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1899

1901

1898

1914

1800

Big stick diplomacy

Platt Amendment

The "Rough Riders"

Spanish American War

Dollar diplomacy

The most famous of all the fighting in Cuba, the "Rough Riders" was the name given to the first U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. The original plan for this called for filling it with men from the Indian Territory, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. After Roosevelt joined the group, it quickly became the place for a mix of troops ranging from Ivy League athletes to glee club singers to Texas Rangers and Indians.

It was a conflict a conflict between the U.S. and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulting U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. George Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, 1898, and destroyed the anchored Spanish fleet in a leisurely morning engagement that cost only seven American seamen wounded. By the Treaty of Paris signed on Dec. 10, 1898, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists

This refers to negotiating peaceably with other nations while simultaneously displaying military might. The term "Big Stick" diplomacy refers to Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, coined by the famous phrase: "speak softly and carry a big stick". Roosevelt attributed the term to West African, but the claim at it originated in West Africa has been disputed.

This showed the conditions for U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease or buy lands for the purpose of the establishing naval bases and coaling stations in Cuba. It barred Cuba from making a treaty that gave another nation power over its affairs, going into debt, or stopping the United States from imposing a sanitation program on the island.

The dollar diplomacy is the effort of the United States, particularly over President William Howard Taft, to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. Taft shared the view held by Knox, a corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate U.S. Steel, that the goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests

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Pancho Villa raids

During the year of 1916, several hundred Mexican guerrillas under the command of Francisco Pancho Villa cross the U.S. Mexican border and attack the small border town of Columbus, New Mexico. 17 Americans were killed in the raid, and the center of tow was burned. It was unclear whether Villa personally participated in the attack, but President Woodrow Wilson ordered the U.S. Army into Mexico to capture the rebel leader dead or alive.

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