America becomes a World Power Chapter 20

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America becomes a World PowerChapter 20
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Spanish / American War1898

• Cuba - Colony of Spain
• Yellow Journalists / War Hawks
• William Randolph Hearst
• Remember the Maine

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Spanish / American War1898

• The War
• Philippines, Cuba
• TR Rough Riders
• Treaty of Paris Post War
• Spain gives up Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and
  Philippines

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US Involvement in Asia

• China - Open Door Policy (1900)
• Boxer Rebellion
• Russo-Japanese War (1904)

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Central America

• Panama Canal
• France Fails
• Location Problems
• Bunau -Varilla deals with TR
• World Impact
• Roosevelt Corollary