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The infulence of sea power upon history
It details the role of sea power throughout history and discusses the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet. Scholars consider it the single most influential book in naval strategy; its policies were quickly adopted by most major navies
Teller amend
in reply to President William McKinley's War Message. It placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba. According to the clause, the U.S. could not annex Cuba but only leave "control of the island to its people."
Platt amend
The Amendment ensured U.S. involvement in Cuban affairs, both foreign and domestic, and gave legal standing to U.S. claims to certain economic and military territories on the island including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Filipino insurrrection
Which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following annexation by the United States
John hay's open door policy
Which usually refers to the policy around 1900 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country
Big stick policy
The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military
Roosevelt corrallary
Extention of monroe doctrine
Gentlemen's agreement
Limits the number of japanese imigrnats
Insular cases
Erning the status of territories acquired by the U.S. in the Spanish-American War (1898)...is it part of the constitution to get these territories.
Moral diplomacy-wilson
Moral Diplomacy was the idea that the United States would support only Latin American governmentsthat were democratic or otherwise supported United States interests
Dollar diplomacy
To further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
Treaty of paris
Cuba is free. we get puerto rico, guam and maybe philpinnes
White man's burden
A characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise. (a poem)
Zimmerman note
Intercepted note from germany saying germany will help mexico get their land back
Kellogg-briand pact
The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defence.The pact was the result of a determined American effort to avoid involvement in the European alliance system