Foreign Policy Challenges (1900-1929)

 

 

 

68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901 of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution, filmed in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines, showing troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events, from the American Memories Collection, L.O.C:

 

The Nation's Forum Collection (from L.O.C.)--59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders from 1918-1920. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing.  

 

The Spanish-American War:

 

"Footholds in the Pacific":  American involvement in the Hawaiian Islands in the late 1800's and overthrow of native Hawaiian monarchy:

 

Joint Resolution for Annexation of Hawaii to the United States (July 7, 1898):

 

Panama Canal Act (1902):

 

Colonel House's May, 1914 Report to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson about the situation in Europe (excerpt):

 

German Declaration of War on Russia (Aug. 1, 1914):

 

Belgian Refusal of Free Passage (Aug. 3, 1914):

 

British Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey's Speech to the House of Commons (Aug. 3, 1914):

 

French President Poincaré's War Message (Aug. 4, 1914):

 

Clemenceau Calls France to Arms (Aug. 4, 1914):

 

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality (Aug. 19, 1914):

 

German Lieut. Weddigen's Account of the U-9 Submarine Attack  (Sept. 22, 1914):

 

President Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (Feb. 10, 1915):

 

Wilson's First "Lusitania" Note to Germany (May 13, 1915):

 

President Wilson's War Message (Apr. 2, 1917):

 

President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" Address to Congress (Jan. 8, 1918):

 

The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points (Nov. 5, 1918):

 

The New York Times Reports the End of the War (Nov. 9-11, 1918):

 

The Peace Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) (including The covenant of the League of Nations):

 

Wilson's address to Congress on the League of Nations:  

 

League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, signed in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 2, 1920:

 

Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva, June 17, 1925):

 

 

 

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