Imperialism

 Monroe Doctrine- A principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.                                                                                                                                                               

 

 Spanish American War- A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba.
                                                      

 

Roosevelt Corollary- was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03.

 

 

Panama Canal- a canal about 50 miles (80 km) long, across the Isthmus of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its construction, begun by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1881, was abandoned in 1889 and was completed by the US, 1904–14. Control of the canal remained with the US until 1999, when it was ceded to Panama.

 

 

Santa Anna and Mexico- Antonio Lopez lópez De Santa anna was A mexican politician and military leader who Was president Of mexico eleven times from 1833 to. 1855 he was a disastrous president For, mexico losing First texas and then much of the Current american west to The United. states.

 

 

Benito Juarez- born March 21, 1806, San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico—died July 18, 1872, Mexico City) national hero and president of Mexico (1861–72), who for three years (1864–67) fought against foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian and who sought constitutional reforms to create a democratic federal republic.

 

 

Pancho Villa- Mexican revolutionary; born Doroteo Arango. He helped Venustiano Carranza to overthrow the dictatorial regime of General Victoriano Huerta in 1914, but then helped Emiliano Zapata to rebel against Carranza's regime.

 

 

 Emiliano Zapata- a Mexican revolutionary. He attempted to implement his program of agrarian reform by means of guerrilla warfare. From 1914, he and Pancho Villa fought against the regimes of General Huerta and Venustiano Carranza.