1898
Spanish American War
Yellow Journalism, USS Maine,
Imperialism, Platt Amendment, Imperial Power
1901
Big Stick Diplomacy
Causes: Theodore Roosevelt
Effects: Imperialism, Panama Canal
1903
Platt Amendment
Causes: Imperialism, Spanish-American War
Effects: Cuban Tension
1904
Roosevelt Corollary
Causes: imperialism, countries need debt repayment
Effects: Monroe Doctrine protected
1905
The Jungle is released
Causes: Muckraking
Effects: Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act
1911
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Causes: unsafe building
Effects: safer conditions
1912
Election of 1912
Effects: Wilson Wins based on Moral Diplomacy/ New Freedom
1914
Outbreak of WWI
Cause: death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1915
Lusitania Sinks
Causes: German Submarine Warfare
Effects: desire by some to join war, Sussex Pledge
1918
18th Amendment
Causes: Income tax, sober workforce for war
Effects: crime goes up, 21st amendment
1917
Zimmermann Telegram
Causes: Germany fear of US joining the war
Effects: the United States joins the war
1919
Treaty of Versailles defeated
Causes: Irreconcileables/ Reservationists
Effects: League of Nations weak
1919
Schenk v. United States
Causes: Espionage and Sedition Acts
Effects: Ruled constitutional
1920
19th amendment
Causes: Women’s participation in the War
Effects: League of Women Voters
1929
Stock Market Crash
Causes: Credit, consumerism, farm failures, wealth gap, global debt, etc
Effects: The Great depression begins; Hoover and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
1933
FDR’s 100 days and the Good Neighbor policy
Causes: need for domestic and foreign relationship stability
Causes: EBRA, Platt amendment and Roosevelt Corollary gotten rid of
1935
Neutrality Acts
Causes: America-First and other isolationist desires
Effects: Cash and carry, Lend-Lease, other ways to avoid “breaking the act”
1937
Court packing and Quarantine Speech
Causes: inevitability of war
Effects: anti-interventionist sentiment increases as entrance into the war apears more and more likely
1941
Lend-Lease program
Causes: Britain Joins the War
Effects: economic relation; Atlantic Charter
1941
Pearl Harbor
Causes: Oil Embargo
Effects: US joins WWII
1942
executive order 9066
Causes: japanese espionage skepticality
Effects: Korematsuu v. United States
1942
Battle of Mid-way
Causes: Japanese expansion
Effects: US on the offensive, J-expansion ended
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1944
D-day invasion
Causes: Tehran conference
Effects: Battle of the Bulge, V-E day
1945
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Causes: Kamikaze soldiers + estimated length/casualities of Op. Downfall
Effects: V-J day, surrender on USS Missouri