CHRONOLOGY

• – President Grover Cleveland nixes attempt to annex Hawai’i.

• – Cleveland enforces Monroe Doctrine in border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela.

• – U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor.
• – Congress declares war on Spain.
• – U.S. Navy destroys Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, the Philippines.
• – U.S. troops defeat Spanish forces in Cuba.
• – Treaty of Paris ends war with Spain.
• – United States annexes Hawai’i.

• – Secretary of State John Hay enunciates Open Door policy in China.
• – Boxer uprising in China.

• – European powers impose Boxer Protocol on Chinese government.