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Spheres of influence
________- Economic competition + defense.
Spheres of influence
Economic competition + defense
1890
The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Cuba
Sugar + tobacco + coffee
1895
Cuban slave revolt w/ modern weapons
General Valeriano "Butcher" Weyler
Cuban concentration camps
"Yellow journalism"
Sensationalize news → Boost circulation
Havana, Cuba
Maine protects Americans
1898
Destroyed + sunk in explosion
Yellow journalism
"Remember the Maine! "
1898
Teller Amendment (US doesnt want to interfere in Cuban affairs)
1901
Platt Amendment
1893
American sugar + fruit planters overthrew Queen Liliuokalani
McKinley
Pro-annexation
1898
Annexed Hawaiian islands
Coaling stations
US islands stocked w/ coal
1899
John Hay
Boxers
Wanted to overthrow Qing Dynasty
Boxers
Kill all foreigners in China
1904
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (allowed canal zone)
1914
Completed
Mexican Revolution (1911)
Guerilla fighter
Imperialists
Gain Pacific Ocean territories
Teddy Roosevelt
Panama Canal + Great White Fleet
Imperialism Debate
The great debate over American overseas expansion saw the two main strands of exceptionalist belief come into direct conflict with one another
Spheres of Influence
A diplomatic term denoting an area in which a foreign power or powers exerts significant military, cultural, or economic influence
Alfred Thayer Mahan
A United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century"
Cuban Revolution
The revolution led by Fidel Castro and a small band of guerrilla fighters against a corrupt dictatorship in Cuba
Spanish-American War
A war between the United States and Spain in 1898
Joseph Pulitzer
A Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World
USS Maine
A United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April
Teller and Platt Amendment
Proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba
Rough Riders
A nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat
Hawaii
The largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks
Coaling Stations
Repositories of fuel that have been located to service commercial and naval vessels
Insular Cases
A series of decisions by the justices beginning in 1901 concerning the constitutional rights of residents of U.S. territories acquired in the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War
Filipino Insurrection
An armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899, to July 2, 1902
Open Door Policy
Called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity
Boxer Rebellion
An uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government
Roosevelt Corollary
Stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries
Panama Canal
A ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States
Great White Fleet
The popular nickname for the group of United States Navy battleships which completed a journey around the globe from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909 by order of President Theodore Roosevelt
Dollar Diplomacy
Diplomacy influenced by economic considerations
Pancho Villa
A key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced out President Porfirio Díaz and brought Francisco I. Madero to power in 1911
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