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S.A. should intervene to this conflict mainly to insure its positions in the region and to provide "humanitarian aid" to local population struggling for independence. As a result this war turned into war against all Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere (including Guam, Puerto Rico and Philippines in the Pacific).
The declaration of war to Germany had a lot of similar premises to the war with Spain. First of all the U.S.A. was an economical donor of Allies in this war, as it declared neutrality after the war began in 1914. But undeclared u-boat...
were directed on destabilization of American positions and could have serious consequences for the U.S.A. In case Germany won the war. By 1917 Central powers had big chance to win the war, especially after Russia, led by Bolsheviks, singed peace treaty with Germany. That's why uneasy decision of the U.S.A. To enter the war was a duty of a nation to preserve civilized world from catastrophe.
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Such reasons were both common for entering WWI and war with Spain, in addition there existed serious objective premises to start the war. The war with Spain was declared after the contraversary and mysterious sank of battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor, 1898. The decision to declare war was also strengthened by public opinion in the U.S.A., which was very anxious about instability in Cuba, which was in prolonged war with Spain. Poverty, famine, cruelty of Spanish soldiers and inability of American companies to penetrate on Cuban market created universal opinion that the U.S.A. should intervene to this conflict mainly to insure its positions in the region and to provide "humanitarian aid" to local population struggling for independence. As a result this war turned into war against all Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere (including Guam, Puerto Rico and Philippines in the Pacific).
The declaration of war to Germany had a lot of similar premises to the war with Spain. First of all the U.S.A. was an economical donor of Allies in this war, as it declared neutrality after the war began in 1914. But undeclared u-boat war of German submarines, which led to, sank of Lusitania liner and political intrigues with Mexican government to declare war against the U.S.A. were directed on destabilization of American positions and could have serious consequences for the U.S.A. In case Germany won the war. By 1917 Central powers had big chance to win the war, especially after Russia, led by Bolsheviks, singed peace treaty with Germany. That's why uneasy decision of the U.S.A. To enter the war was a duty of a nation to preserve civilized world from catastrophe.
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Even the success in the Spanish American war of 1898, which turned the U.S.A. into a "young empire" as it received such possessions as Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines and unlimited control over "independent" Cuba didn't make the U.S.A. A world power, as the world politics until 1918 took place mainly in the Old World. High economical potential, which the U.S.A. acquired, by the beginning of the World War allowed it
S. Therefore, it is fairly evident that U.S. foreign policy certainly aided in worsening the political situations in much of Latin America during the Cold War. It did so by serving as a source of enmity for many nationalist groups that arose to oppose its domination in the area, by attempting to undermine the reform measures of governments erected in place of those that it favored, and by formally supplying weaponry,
In 1915, after some work with other physicists, Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, in a form still used today -- explaining gravitation as a distortion of the structure of space-time by matter. (Isaacson, 2008). Einstein spent the World War I years in Berlin, continuing to publish and gain attention from the worldwide scientific community. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "for his services to
U.S. Approach to Terrorism U.S Approach to Terrorism Post 2001 The incidence of September 11, 2001 led to an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of U.S. And was called the war or terror. Since 2001, U.S. government has taken several steps to maintain security and counter terrorism by implementing certain strategies at national and international level. These approaches and steps, whether useful or not have been discussed in this paper. President Bush's Justifications
U.S. Reliance of the National Guard The National Guard is a private army (militia) of the United States of America. The United States' Constitution has authorized this militia and has also specified the different functions and roles of the National Guard in the federal and state governments. According to the Article 1 of the Section 8 in the United States' Constitution, the Congress has been granted the authority "to call forth
Moreover, both viewed the distinctive opportunities afoot in helping the world to define itself along either capitalist or communist lines. To this extent, the period following World War II may actually be defined as a transitional phase necessary encumbered by brutal conflict. The end of feudalism and colonialism in Europe, marked most officially by the end of the WWII and the need for each European nation to look inward