In the 1890s the Frontier was ceasing to exist. Up to that time the Frontier had been a an essential part of of the American dream of freedom and opportunity.
Thus began the imperialistic policy of the USA, almost as a compensation for the loss of the internal frontier.
In 1898 the USA annexed the Hawaian Island and in the same year waged a short war against Spain in Cuba, to defend the economic interests on the island. However Cuba became a free republic a few years later.
In 1903 the President Theodore Roosvelt obtained the lease of the Panama Canal Zone Thus enlarging the American territory with strategic positions.
George V reigned from 1910 to 1936.
Life until the World War I was in many ways the British counterpart of the continental Belle époque: Victorian habits were continued and the upper class still thought of itself as the centre of the civilized world.
World War I put an abrupt end to all this.
The son of Queen Victoria, Edward VII came to the throne in 1901.
In 1906 was held a general election and the LIberal Party won.
The Edwardian Age (1901-1910) saw the culmination of the process hat had characterized British social life for the past two centuries: a widespread industralization; the growth of urban areas; an increase in population; the extension of the transport network.
