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A government's strategy in dealing with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.

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A policy in extending a country's power and influence through force.

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The idea that the US should not be involved with the affairs of other nations.

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Annexation is taking control of something, mostly territories.

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The United States wants more money and resources

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Recognition as a World Power improved global status

Nationalism & Pride

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Countries were building up their military and improving the technology and equipment they used in the war. They were also building up branches such as the Air Force and the Navy to usher in this newer generation of war and fighting. America and other countries started doing this to protect the resources and domains they have by building up military bases there.

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- Racial & Cultural Superiority
- Spread religion (Christianity)

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The United States gained Cuba after the Spanish war and gained Sugar from them. Cuba was also protected by the United States and was not allowed to make treaties with any other nation. Cuba, later on, becomes independent but is still protected by the US.

Cuba - became independent

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The Spanish-American War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1898, which allowed the United States to purchase the Philippines from Spain for $20 million.

Phillippines because a U.S Territory until WW1 ended.

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Guam is ceded to the United States and becomes a United States territory. It is still a United States territory.

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Puerto Rico is ceded to the United States. It becomes a U.S. territory, and still is to this day

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A United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.

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It stated that after the Spanish-American war, that Cuba would be considered as an independent country and all US troops would be withdrawn from the country. However, it also stated that the United States will be able to control certain aspects of the newly made country.

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Created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. He declares that US would be International Police Force in the Western Hemisphere

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International negotiations backed by the threat of force. Roosevelt's idea of negotiating peacefully while threatening with the big stick (military) at the same time.

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Roosevelt believed a canal through Central America was important to American power in the world. The Panama Canal made it quicker to send the U.S. navy from one side of the world to the other, it would shorten the distance for trade.

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Why:Land expansion and trade.

Benefits:Made it easier to trade with Asia and gave the U.S a lot more land.

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- The US bought Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million

-Later on, the Klondike gold fields, oil, and great fishing were discovered in Alaska.

-Ultimately, Alaska expanded America's borders and reaped many natural resources.

-Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959.

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Benefits: Had many valuable sugar crops, opened the trading market into a foreign island, was used to store Naval bases.

Results: Became 50th state of US, held Pearl Harbor navy base, US gained sugar crops from the islands.

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Hawaii had valuable sugar crops, and served as a way point for sailors and shippers and the U.S. gained Pearl Harbor.

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M - Militarialism
A - Alliance System
I - Imperialism
N - Nationalism

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The “Spark” of WWI.  What officially started the War?- Taylor

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The “Spark” of WWI.  What officially started the War?- Taylor

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A spark that had set off on July 28,1914 when a young patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Officially started in 1914 of July

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Economic ties with Britain and France, Germany sinking the Lusitania (U.S. ship), and the Zimmerman Note.

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A ship with about 100 American on board, along with people for other countries, which Germany sank. This caused the U.S. to become involved in WW1.

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Tanks, Chemical Warfare, Machine Guns, Fighter Planes

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Where different sides attack and defend each other from systems of trenches dug into the ground.

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When a soldier's foot gets eaten away while they stand in the garbage in a trench.

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It was a peace treaty that was signed in 1919 ( the end of WW1) ending the state of war with Germany.

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The Treaty of Versailles’ Impact on Germany- Xiomara

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The Treaty of Versailles’ Impact on Germany- Xiomara

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The Treaty of Versailles made Germany claim responsibility for the war and had them give reparations to the Allied forces for all the damage against them. Germany had its colonies stripped away and its army severely restricted and limited in size/power.

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A policy that helped support foreign investment in order to ultimately grow the U.S economy.

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established an international protocol guaranteeing that all nations would have equal trading rights throughout China.  This policy would not infringe on China’s territorial and administrative integrity.

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An area or region over which an organization or state exerts some kind of indirect cultural, economic, military, or political dominance.

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A uprising against foreigners that occurred on china in the year 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government

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Note intercepted by British and US, in which Germany was attempting to ally with Mexico, and support them in invading the US through the South.

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A speech to congress by Woodrow Wilson to help advocate for the United States' joining of the League of Nations.

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An international organization to adress diplomatic crisis like those that sparked war

Now the league of nations is called the United Nations.