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Vebjørn

The Mexican-American War was primarily about a territorial dispute between the United States and Mexico. Tensions escalated, leading to a series of military engagements and eventually a full-scale war in 1846. The war concluded in 1848 and mexico lost a large portion of its territory to the United States.

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Sarah

The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest.

The price was $15 million, which could be called a bargain.

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Ada The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression

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Adrian

The New Deal was a set of reforms and regulations established and set into action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. The reason for this large enactment of policies was due to the great depression, which hit the U.S in 1929.
Examples of these programs were organizations to safeguard the banks and provide aid to both the elderly and the poor.

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The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism, is a global counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is also the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. Most prominent are the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Internationalism is the idea of embracing cooperation among states - this includes political, economic, and even cultural cooperation. This unification is founded on adopting shared aims, values and a desire for a common good.

The U.S. has been dominated by internationalism after WWII, with the creation of NATO, the UN and participation in several environmental agreements.

The U.S.' internationalist principle depends on who sits in power. Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from several international agreements, and Joe Biden re-joined.

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Kristoffer

Manifest Destiny was the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population.

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The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. Much used by President Howard W. Taft (1909-13) in Latin America.

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Lovise

Soft power refers to a nation's ability to influence others through non-coercive means, such as culture, values, and ideology, rather than through military force or economic coercion.

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Johanna
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. This was the dominant principle in U.S. foreign affairs, arguably until the end of WWII, when the U.S. adopted an interventionist strategy.

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Maria
Americanization is the influence of American culture and business on other countries outside the USA, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology or political techniques.

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Martin

Hard power is the method by which nations exert their power through force.

Traditional hard power is a way to show dominance.

Military and economic power are examples of hard power.

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Stine

A government policy or practice of doing things to directly influence the country's economy or the political affairs of another country.  Interventionism is characterized by the use or threat of force or coercion to alter a political or cultural situation nominally outside the intervenor’s moral or political jurisdiction.

Example: A country may invade or threaten to invade another in order to overthrow an oppressive regime or to force the other to change its politics. The U.S. has shown many interventionist tendenceies after WWII.

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Sander
The Containment policy, formulated by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan in 1947 during the early years of the Cold War. The aim was to prevent the spread of communism, particularly Soviet influence, by containing it within its existing boundaries rather than directly confronting it militarily. This strategy involved providing economic and military support to non-communist countries and establishing alliances, such as NATO, for further expansion.

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Kenan

The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics.