• 1908 marked what is believed to be America’s transition into modern life
• America began to play a more dominant role in war affairs
• The country was continuously gaining confidence
• America had entered a time period of fast paced technological development
• Roosevelt’s journey with the Great White Fleet left a lasting imprint on America and how other countries viewed the U.S.
• People constantly pondered what the future would appear to be a century later
• The Wright brothers had run a successful test run of their plane
• People had first resented cars for their appeal to the rich
• Ford had manufactured affordable cars and became a success with the Model T
• The term melting pot was coined
• A black wrestler had defeated a long standing white champion in Australia

• The amendment stated that Spain would remove all military and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters
• The U.S. would involve themselves however necessary to make sure that happened
• Cuba would be independent and under its own rule unless a conflict with the U.S. occurred
• Cuba could not enter any foreign arrangements that would interfere with the independence of Cuba
• Cuba cannot make any unreasonable financial decisions
• The U.S. can interfere in order to aid Cuba
• United States acts are ratified in Cuba
• Cuba will maintain the agreements or laws necessary to keep disease at bay
• Cuba must sell lands to the U.S. that the U.S. may need economically
• This treaty is permanent

• Leon was an anarchist who shot William McKinley
• He had emigrated from Poland
• He believed that William was an enemy of working people
• He was a radical anarchist
• He had always been known to have a criminal past and a strong hatred for the U.S.
• He was constantly under careful watch and banned from groups of people
• McKinley was visiting close to his home in Buffalo and decided to kill him
• He had absolutely no remorse for his actions and was sentenced to death

• Although Wilson encouraged and held the peace conference in France, he did not feel the need to join it
• His presidency had a reputation of contradictions, like keeping the U.S. neutral until he put the country into the war
• He was convinced he had been doing what was truly right for the world
• He previously acted as a lawyer and then a teacher in writing
• Lincoln was one of his heroes
• Raised in a Christian household
• He made the school he worked at a well functioning university and became a well-known figure in the democratic party
• He spoke for the poor and those without much to live off of economically
• He had a trail of enemies and depressions throughout his career 
• He had never believed he could be wrong
• Wilson’s selection of commissioners outraged the country
• He did not like or trust republicans, which undercut his position in Paris
• The decision to go to war had been agony for him
• He was usually easy going but lost his temper at the peace conference
• He quickly married after the passing of his previous wife and was infuriated by rumors
• Vienna wanted explanation of the term but Washington and Paris never replied
• America tended to see their way of living as a model for others
• Before disillusionment many people were willing to listen to Wilson
• The US and France had a great love for Wilson
• Wilson had a stubborn opinion on the Treaty of Versailles as the country began to agree with its reservations
• Wilson’s health was also depleting
• Wilson had won the Nobel Peace Prize, even while stuck in his sickroom

• Woodrow Wilson had the nation’s best interest in mind and wanted to continue our pattern of isolationism
• He acknowledges the people who had come here from different nations
• There will be many passionate opinions of the war
• The war for America may possibly reside in the opinions of the war itself
• This may disrupt the nation’s current state of peace and that’s was Woodrow Wilson warned America of
• He wants to maintain a peace inside the U.S. as well and taking sides will do the exact opposite

• Louis’s father had abandoned him and his mother, while his mother then neglected him
• He was left in the care of his grandmother
• Music had surrounded him ever since he was a young child, and he followed it wherever it went
• He was arrested for supposedly aiming a gun at another boy, and was taken into a disciplinary living center
• He actually loved the consistent meals and discipline
• Armstrong joined a band while in the living, and was highly practiced once released
• Over time he worked random jobs to support his family and listened to bands at night
• He bought a used cornet and gained a regular spot in a band
• He slowly moved up north and made a personality of his won on stage
• Armstrong was loved by the audience, as he added different things like dancing and singing to his shows
• By the 1920’s, he was known as the foremost living jazz musician
• He was known as a “star” as he and his group began to do tours and radio talk shows
• By the end of the 1920’s his career fell apart because of his peers and manager taking advantage of him and his success
• He then came back on track by getting over his “white men are superior” attitude and hired a new manager
• He appeared on film and was the first African American to have his own radio show
• Unfortunately following WWII he was not so interested in producing great jazz but making money, and he was no longer a star in jazz
• He made a return to jazz and returned to the spotlight, but later passed away of a heart attack 

[Map of World War I battle positions in the Bruges region, Belgium].