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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1886

  • U.S. begins building modern battleships
1892

  • U.S.-backed planters overthrow Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani
1895

  • United States arbitrates border dispute between Britain and Venezuela

  • Guerrilla war against Spanish rule begins in Cuba
1898

  • War between United States and Spain

  • United States annexes Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam
1899–1902

  • U.S.-Philippine War, ending in U.S. occupation of Philippines

  • United States pursues open door policy in China
1900

  • United States helps suppress nationalist rebellion in China (“Boxer Rebellion”)
1901

  • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
1902

  • Platt Amendment gives U.S. exclusive role in Cuba
1903

  • U.S. recognizes Panama’s independence from Colombia
1905

  • Russo-Japanese War; Roosevelt mediates peace
1908

  • Root-Takahira Agreement
1914

  • Panama Canal opens

  • U.S. military action in Veracruz, Mexico

  • World War I begins in Europe
1916

  • Jones Act commits United States to future Philippine independence
1917

  • United States declares war on Germany and its allies, creates new agencies to mobilize economy and promote national unity

  • Espionage Act
1918

  • Sedition Act

  • World War I ends

  • Beginning of two-year influenza pandemic that kills 50 million people worldwide
1919

  • Schenck v. United States and Abrams v. United States

  • Wilson promotes Fourteen Points at Paris Peace Conference

  • Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles
1920

  • Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: On the timeline above, identify at least five events that demonstrated the rising global power of the United States. Compare their consequences. If you had been an observer in London or Tokyo, how might you have interpreted the United States’s actions in each case?