| American Imperialism | Was partly rooed in American exceptionalism the ideia that the United States was different from other countries due to its specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy |
| Alaska | Purchased from Russia; provide the United States with fish, furs and coaling stations for merchant ships in the Pacific |
| Hawaii | Became republic after Queen Lilliuokalani was forced to surrender her trone by american forces; annexed in 1898; a viral port for whalling and merchant ships as well as provided a strategic military bases in the Pacific |
| Spanish-American War | USS Maina (a U.S navy ship) exploded in Havana Haror and DeLome Letter contributed to conflict |
| Yellow journalism and Propaganda | News outlets printed wildly exaggerated stories and urged for the declaration of war |
| Treaty of Paris (1898) | Three main points including the US gaining territories the establishment of Guantanamo Bay |
| China Open-Door Policy | All nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China's territorial integrity would not be compromised |
| Progressive Presidents | Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Big Stick Policy turned out to be military intervention. |
| William Howard Taft | Dollar Diplomacy was a plan to “substitute dollars for bullets”, such as in Nicaragua. Forcing these countries to take loans from the U.S. at high rates, to take advantage of hese countries when they couldn`t pay the debts. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy - support was given to countries whose moral beliefs are
similar to that of the U.S.. E.g. US involvement in the Mexican Revolution, between 1913-1917. |
