Foreign Policy Challenges
(1900-1929)
- Places
and regions
- Change
- Independence
- Government
- Citizenship
and civic life
- Human
Rights
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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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