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Chapter 23: The United States and the Old World Order |
1901 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty: authorizes U.S. to build canal across the Central American isthmus
1902 Platt Amendment: U.S. reserves right to intervene in Cuba
1904 Roosevelt Corollary: U.S. assumes right to police Caribbean affairs
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth: ends Russo-Japanese War
1907 "Gentleman’s Agreement:" U.S. agrees to mutual restriction of immigration with Japan
"Great White Fleet:" U.S. battle fleet embarks on world tour
1911 Mexican Revolution
1914 Invasion of Vera Cruz: U.S. Navy invades Mexican port
World War I: set off by assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
1915 Lusitania torpedoed: 114 Americans die when German submarines sink British liner
1916 U.S. invades Mexico
1917 "Peace without victory": Wilson calls for negotiated peace
Germany resumes unresticted submarine warfare
Zimmerman telegram: Germany promises Mexico territory in return for Mexican declaration of war against U.S.
Russian Revolution
U.S. enters World War I
1918 Fourteen Points: Wilson announces his peace plan
Influenza epidemic: global pandemic kills more Americans than die in combat
1919 Paris Peace Conference: victors convene at Versailles
Schenk v. United States: upholds Espionage Act
Red Summer: nation erupts in race riots
Treaty of Versailles: Senate rejects Paris Peace Treaty
1920 Palmer raids: Attorney General orders arrest and deportation of radicals, igniting nationwide Red Scare
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