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America's acquisition of Alaska
The United states would pay Russia $7.2 million for the territory; the United states acquired 600,000 square miles of land -
Theodore Roosevelt and the World → his foreign policy and outcomes/impacts
Roosevelt’s Corollary; It stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors and did not violate the rights of the US; modernized the US Army and expanded the Navy -
American and Puerto Rico
An Unincorporated US territory; Congress established a popularity elected legislative branch and extended citizenship to Puerto Ricans; It does not exist independently of the US citizenship because Puerto RIco is not an independent sovereign nation -
America's acquisition of Hawaii
the Spanish-American War broke out, and the strategic use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the war convinced Congress to approve formal annexation -
America and China
U.S.-ChinaRelations Act; Formally an ally of the US; The US was allied with them -
America and the Philippines
Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States; Death of over 4,200 Americans and over 20,000 Filipino combatants -
Growth of American imperialism
Economic competition with industrial nations
Political and military composition
Belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon descent -
Woodrow Wilson and the World→ his foreign policy and outcomes/impacts
Wilsonianism; self-determination, democratic government, collective security, international law, and a league of nations.