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| Political Obligations/Ambitions of U.S. |
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| Manifest Desitiny- Start to want to be involved in the world's affairs after 1898. |
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| ordained by God: to expand territory and influence remain alive in teh decades after the Civil War. |
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| Business Ambitions/Obligations of U.S. |
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- Get strong policy to protect U.S.
- Help the world in order to advance business
- U.S GOV, BACK UP U.S. SOIL.
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| How the Spanish American War started |
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| Revolt in Cuba agains Spanish Authority which led to the battles of Manila Bay and San Juan Hill |
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| Who declared Spanish- American War |
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| Why McKinley Declared Spanish American War |
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| USS Maine blew up on April 21st --- seen as attack |
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| U.S. destroyed the feleet without casualties with the use of modern guns--- first decisive victory for US |
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| Led to Teddy Roosevelt becoming a hero |
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- Consequences of San Juan Hill and Spanish - american war
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- Cuban independence
- U.s. Power gained by guantanamo base, phillipenes, and other territories
- Was U.S. A NEW WORLD POWER? ---- brits noticed them now.
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Wrote "Our Country"..... "Our Country: Its possible Future and our present crisis"
Protestant, evangelical, minister. |
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| Principles of "Our Country" |
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- Political-- Dominate Europe with Civil Liberty (u.s. = octopus?)
- Religious- Anglo Saxon race is supreme, pure spiritual christianity
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| Remain Netural in other countries' affairs |
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| writer of "Our blundering Foreign Policy" |
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| Points of Henry Lodge's Our blundering foreign policy: |
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- Credit to Monroe Doc & Neutrality (washington & hamilton)
- Compete with Britain
- Have a strong Navy
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| Dynamics of American foreign Policy |
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- Widespread Democracy
- Economic spread access to tomorrow's material
- open markets to plant business
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| Why U.s. Had confidence in peace |
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- industry had made better technology so war wasn't thought of
- each power had different advantages which made a neutrality balance
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| Cause of beginning of War |
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| Arch duke Franz- Ferdinand assassinated by Blackhand Terrorists from Serbia at Sarajevo |
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- Continuous Stalemates
- Western front was muddy, soldiers, and trenches
- Soldiers, artillery, and battle of attricians.
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| try to destroy the others defensive mechanisms first |
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| Raised the question of who would collapse first, no one wanted to back down, even with over 300K killed. |
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| claimed neutrality in 1914 which made u.s. hapy, and farms and factories were helping french |
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zimmerman's telegram scandal
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| cause americans to jump into war |
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| German's role in the race/ |
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| Concentrated on knocking Russia out of the war, take troops to western front to smash franch and british |
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| raise army to intervene Germans |
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| Year that the ending of the war began to start as the Germans collapsed on teh Western front |
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| U.S. Secratary of State involved in Paris Peace pact of 1928 |
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| Foreign Minister from France involved in the Paris Peace Pact of 1928 |
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| Basic Concepts behind Paris Peace Pact |
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| Basic renunciation of war |
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| Covenant of the League of Nations from the Versailles Treaty |
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Basic Points include:
- German responsibility--pay reparations
- Give up any hints of war
- collective security
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| wrote the 14 points to promote peace |
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main ideas include
-no alliances, no trade barriers, and a league of nations
don't punish the germans, and get similar religions together and away from Russia |
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| speech by woodrow wilson to change the terms of wars, alowing a new sense of foreign policy. Community of power, and following the Monroe Doctrine to advance the american agenda and promote peace. |
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Eurpoean empires were dismantled,
war guilt laid on german
Fear of Communism at home--Red Scare |
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| fear of Communists in home land |
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| Warren G. Harding, whose like McKinley in his pro-business attidue |
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| Cause of the stock market crash |
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| Gold Standard, High Tariffs, ati-trust laws |
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff on imports
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| key trigger to stock market crash. |
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| believed in marxism, dedicated to violent and communist dictatorship. |
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| Fascist Italy leader, with a view of national politics, not international. |
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| led to a widespread strike and Mussilini's marhc on Rome |
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| jailed during the Red Scare for political speeches, ad was a socialist |
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| Governor from Louisiana designated as a facist with a concern for economics and enemy of roosevent |
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| Head of KKK "Imperial Wizard from 1922" |
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| wrote the "Socialist Alternative" |
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| Blames the machine and private ownership |
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solution is one party/one union, everyone must be a socialist, and power must shift to people.
international "to win the world" |
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Problem was that wealth was too concentrated.
debt and unemployed raised, and there was a lack of education |
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solution:
equality for family wealth, elderly & veteran care, and education to fix financial dependence on parents |
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| wrote "the klan's fight for americanism" |
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| problem: Amrica had social and moral collapse, and strayed from religion and white anglosaxon normality |
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Solution:
warfare "one cross at a time" to show force on liberals (city folk, catholics, and immigrants) |
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