history of the US on the world stage by Rayden Roberts

American Imperialism

raydenroberts — 2025-03-06 19:41:53 UTC

In the earlier days of America, they had many debates about whether they should "spread democracy" to the "less developed" and other countries, but ultimately, president Woodrow Wilson in 1916 decided to keep america neutral in the war

Affects to the US

raydenroberts — 2025-03-06 19:46:30 UTC

one big thing it affected was the annexation of hawaii, It let them have access to all ports. another big thing it did was start the spanish-american war

Spanish-American war

raydenroberts — 2025-03-06 20:03:09 UTC

The Spanish-American war first started on December 10th 1898. What started it was the USS Maine exploding in Cuba, resulting in America obtaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, which lead to the philippine revolution, which itself lead to the Spanish-American war

Big stick diplomacy

raydenroberts — 2025-03-06 20:15:22 UTC

The term "big stick" is used by many today, and was used even more back then, by historians who used it to describe the foreign policies President Theodore Roosevelt who said "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis"

yellow journalism

raydenroberts — 2025-03-06 20:19:11 UTC

Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. One of the biggest things it did was giving a perceived threat about the Zimmerman telegram, making headlines and stories about how it implied there was a threat to America and its security