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Good imperialism allowed for the spread of culture, technology, and language to take place around the world. Hawaii, Alaska, and The Panama Canal were three places that the United States imposed their imperialist actions on. Hawaii became a state that the U.S. controlled and protected through economic treaties. The United States choose to get involved with Hawaii to have a place to control closer…

How did the Cold War affect the breakup of Yugoslavia? After the end of the Cold War, Yugoslavia lost its strategic importance it once had when it was a neutral territory lying in between the two blocs. The collapse was caused by the diminishing support from both the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) who no longer competed to strengthen their influence over Yugoslavia and the ongoing downfall of their economy and socio-political stability. Yugoslavia was created after the First…

at the end of the 1800s in Europe. The need for natural resources grew. The United States was eager to join the competition…

June 1945, the United States was preparing for a massive scale invasion of mainland Japan. Military leaders in America were planning an initial invasion of Kyushu with 750,000 US soldiers and an additional 1.5 million troops to complete the invasion of Japan. The estimates from Navy and Air force generals said that it would have taken months to complete the invasion and there was also a chance the the US would lose. If only there was another option to end the war faster and without all the lives…

favored, however, I favor the Patriots because I want America to gain their independence and land from Britain. The Patriots were people who wanted the American Colonies to gain their independence from Britain and wanted their own country called the United States. People in America felt they were not…

growth. While quality of life has skyrocketed across the world, new challenges have arisen. Serge LaTouche, a French economist, states that geometric economic growth cannot be sustained forever in his chapter “The Territory of De-Growth” from his book Farewell to Growth, calling for controlled economic growth to ensure a successful future. In the chapter “The Territory of De-Growth”, Latouche distinguishes the difference between his proposed de-growth and negative growth by defining de-growth…

28, 1914. On August 4th, the same day Germany declared war against Britain, President Wilson declared the United States’ neutrality. The United States was morally, economically and politically justified in entering the first world war because Germany was killing innocent people, international trading rights, and “The Zimmerman Telegram” that was sent to Mexico from Germany. The United States was justified in entering the first world war against Germany morally, because Germany was attacking…

The start of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Second World War began a series of standoffs and conflicts between the two superpowers. This conflict however, did not remain in the two countries and because both desired dominance over one another but did not want all out war, the conflicts were played out in weaker or smaller countries and regions of the world such as in the Middle East. The United States was attracted to the Middle East due to the containment…

Rio Grande. It started after the Mexicans fired upon the Americans on the Rio Grande, and President Polk, the U.S. president at the time, saw it as a reason to go to war. However, was the U.S. really justified in going to war with Mexico? The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because of the Manifest Destiny, the growing population, and because Mexico provoked America first. One reason the Mexican war was justified was the Manifest Destiny. In document A, John L.…

our modern day society. It was viewed differently by the imperialist and the colonies imperialized. H.G. Wells, Liang Qichao, Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani, and Rabindranath Tagore all lived through the new age of imperialism and saw what was done to the states across the globe. As a result, each of them developed and shared ideas on their views on imperialism. H.G Wells and Liang Qichao were both against imperialism. Through his book The Time Machine the time traveler met with the “two natives…