Republicans‐ Incumbent William Taft
Democrats‐ Woodrow Wilson
Progressives/Bull Moose Party‐ Teddy Roosevelt
Socialist Party‐ Eugene V. Debs
• Philippe Bunau‐Varilla: Columbian‐Panamanian revolutionary, and subsequent minister of newly independent Panama in 1903
• Roosevelt Corollary‐ declared that the United States now had the right to send in “international police power” to maintain peace and order throughout Central America
• Russo‐Japanese War 1904‐1905
• Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907:
• Japan would not issue passports to Japanese male laborers planning to emigrate to America • Roosevelt promised to take a stand against anti‐
Japanese discrimination
Central Powers/Triple Alliance
Included: Germany, Austria‐
Hungary, Italy
Allies/Triple Entente
Included: Great Britain, France, Russia
Assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand (Heir to the Throne)
unlimited submarine warfare Vs. freedom of the seas
Zimmerman Note/Telegram: proposing an alliance between Mexico and Germany should American enter the war on the side of the Allies
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare: German subs will sink any ships attempting to provide supplies, or move through British waters U.S. declared war on Germany, April 6th 1917
• Used techniques from the emerging field of Public Relations
• Became a sophisticated aggressive agency aimed at promoting the war
‐“Four Minute Men”
‐Anti‐German campaign