Similarities Between WWII And The United States

America has had many interferences with foreign nations, some good, most not so good. There was a “war” that included Russia, or the USSR, it’s also known as The Cold War. It was a basically a series of proxy wars in different countries to prove who’s government would fall first and who was the true global superpower. Next we transition to the 1940’s and the 1910’s with both World War I and World War II. To make it as simple as possible, WWI was America and Great Britain vs Germany, and WWII was Russia plus Great Britain, with America coming in later, vs Germany, again. German lost both World Wars and had to surrender all the land that they took over after both wars ended. On March 4, 1933, President Roosevelt stated in his inaugural address, …show more content…
Let’s start with World War I, fought from 1914 to 1918, World War I started after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in June 1914 (diffen.com). World War II was from 1939 to 1945, and begun after Adolf Hitler invaded Poland was was told not to. Over 20 millions deaths in WWI and almost 80 million deaths in WWII as in both wars, America, Britain, and the good guys won. After WWII ended nations decided to form a group so a war like this would not break out again, NATO was founded in 1949. Founding members of NATO were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States (nato.int). After the formation of NATO the USSR decided to form its own group of nations called the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Both of these are examples of Collective Security, the basic definition of Collective Security is, if one country that is in NATO or the Warsaw Pact gets invaded or attacked, the other nations that are in the group have to help out the country in distress. NATO still exists today and now has 26 members, including Russia, and the Warsaw Pact disassembled in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s …show more content…
“In the fall of 1898, President McKinley stated his desire for the creation of an "open door" that would allow all trading nations access to the Chinese market. The following year, Secretary of State John Hay sought a formal endorsement of the concept by circulating diplomatic notes among the major powers, enabling the secretary to be credited with authoring the Open Door policy” (The Open Door…). What John Hay did was he divided China into territorial pieces and allowed foreign countries to come in and use China’s resources to create goods or to spread religion. Countries were allowed to use China’s resources but they could no ruin their landscape to respect China’s culture. America, Great Britain, Germany, and Italy were big name countries that took a slice of China. In addition, many religions were spread all throughout China, Christianity was a big one, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, and Buddhism were introduced to the Chinese people. All was good and fine until the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, where 14,000 Chinese rebels attacked the British portion of China and took hostages (Boxer