America as a World Power

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What are some others?)</div> <div>      Perry and Japan, 1854</div> <div>      China; The Boxer Rebellion</div> <div>      The Open-Door Policy</div> <div>      Taft, Dollar Diplomacy</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Reasons for U.S. Imperialism</U></b></div> <div> <B>Economic</b> - colonies for new markets and new raw materials</div> <div> <B>Political/military</b> - desire for military strength</div> <div> Alfred Thayer Mahan, <I>The Influence of Sea Power on History</I> (1890)</div> <div>           Shipping lanes</div> <div>           Naval bases - to refuel ships</div> <div> <B>Cultural</b></div> <div> Manfest Destiny, sense of Anglo-Saxon Superiority</div> <div> Josiah Strong, Social Darwinism, continuation of "frontier"?</div> <div>      Context of Global Imperialism</div> <div>           "White Man's Burden"</div> <div>           "The sun never sets on the British Empire"</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Causes of the Spanish-American War</U></b></div> <div> <B>Cuban pol and econ instability</b></div> <div> Jose Marti, Cuba Libre</div> <div> <B>Yellow Journalism</b></div> <div> William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer - newspaper tycoons, trying to outsell each other.</div> <div> WR Hearst to artist Frederic Remington "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."</div> <div> <B>The de Lome Letter - incited Americans</b></div> <div> Spanish minister to US, de Lome, called McKinley a weak president - intercepted by Cubans</div> <div> (TR called McK "a white-livered cur with no more backbone than a chocolate éclair!")</div> <div> <B>The </b><I><B>Maine</b></I><B> cause of the SpAm War, Feb. 15, 1898</b></div> <div> McK sent USS <I>Maine</I> to Havana harbor (Amer consul in Havana requested it, fear of rioters).</div> <div> Explosion - cause unknown, but WR Hearst's Journal reported, "Maine split in two by an enemy's secret infernal machine" and reward of $50,000 for capture of Spaniards who did it.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">McK asked Congress for the right to use mil and naval forces… Congress agreed.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>The SpAm War, 1898</U></b></I></div> <div> Philippines</div> <div> Admiral George Dewey attacked Spanish forces in Philippines</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">381 Sp casualties</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1 US casualty - an overweight engineer who died of heat exhaustion</div> <div> US forces joined by Phil rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Spanish surrender to Americans.</div> <div> Cuba</div> <div>           TR and Rough Riders - 1<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >st</FONT> Volunteer Cavalry Regiment</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">polo players, Indians, cowboys, sheriffs from AZ, Harvard grads…</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">San Juan Hill legend (charge really up Kettle Hill)</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Results of SpAm War</b></I></div> <div> "Splendid Little War"</div> <div> (Mike Ferrarin, "We kicked their @$$es; it only took one day.")</div> <div> <B>Debate w/in US</b> - Is imperialism American?</div> <div>      Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams - NO</div> <div>      Samuel Gompers - afraid Philippinos would take US jobs</div> <div> <B>US acquires an empire</b>:</div> <div> 1. US got <B>Philippines</b>, promised to pay Spain $20 million</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Philippine rebellion, 1899-1901</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1936 indep after 10-year trial period as commonwealth</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">1946 Philippines becomes independent  republic</div> <div> <B>2.  Cuba</b> becomes a protectorate</div> <div> <B>Platt amendment</b> - Cuba not make treaties which limit its indep,  Cuba not allow foreign powers to control any part of it, Cuba can't go into debt, US right to make naval bases, US can intervene in Cuba for its protection.</div> <div> 3. <B>Puerto Rico</b> becomes a commonwealth</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">makes its own laws and handles its finances, US takes care of defense and tariffs, Residents move freely between PR and US, are citizens of US</div> <div> <B>4. Hawaii</b></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">US business interests encourage US mil presence, deposes Queen Liliuokani</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">(Sanford B. Dole, pineapple - President of the Republic of Hawaii)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Aria006c002d00f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="48" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Queen Liliuokalani asks US to restore her; US waffles until SpAm War, US agrees to take on HI as a territory.  HI becomes 50<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> state, 1959.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>World War I, 1914-1918</U></b></div> <div>      U.S. Restraint and Involvement</div> <div>      Neutrality</div> <div>      <B>MAIN Causes of WWI</b></div> <div>           Militarism</div> <div>           Alliance Systems</div> <div>           Imperialism</div> <div>           Nationalism</div> <div>      <B>Immediate Cause</b>:   June 18, 1914, Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by </div> <div> Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip</div> <div>      <B>Reasons for U.S. Entry into WWI (on side of Allies)</b></div> <div>           Lusitania</div> <div>           Zimmerman Telegram</div> <bR> <bR> <div>      <B>WWI and Civil Liberties</b></div> <div>           Court Cases</div> <div>                <I>Schenck v. United States</I>, 1919; "clear and present danger" doctrine</div> <div>                <I>Debs v. United States</I>, 1919</div> <div>           Red Scare</div> <div>           Espionage and Sedition Acts</div> <div>      <B>WWI Technology</b></div> <div>      </div> <bR> <div>           <B>Effects of Technology</b></div> <div>                Dehumanization of the war experience</div> <div>                Stalemate</div> <bR> <div>      <B>Major Events of WWI</b></div> <div>           Battle of the Marne</div> <div>           Battle of the Somme</div> <div>           U.S. Entry, April 1917</div> <div>      <B>WWI as Total War</b> (Impact of war on the Homefront)</div> <div>           Victory Gardens</div> <div>           War Bonds</div> <div>           Propaganda</div> <bR> <div>      <B>WWI as Global War</b></div> <div>      </div> <div> The Peace Settlement</div> <div>           <B>The Fourteen Points</b></div> <div>                Key points:</div> <div>           <B>The Treaty of Versailles</b></div> <div>                The Big Four</div> <div>                Wilson's Role</div> <div>                Reparations</div> <div>           <B>The League of Nations</b></div> <div>                Henry Cabot Lodge</div> <div>                Senate's response:</div> <div>           Washington Naval Disarmament Conference, 1920s</div> <div>           Dawes Plan</div> <div>           Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>