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Sinking of the USS Maine, Future 2
The sinking of the USS Maine united the American people against Spain. Spain was seen as treacherous and barbarious. The song by Mary Elizabeth Lamb helped further this feeling by calling for vengeance: "Awake! it is no dream; Dost hear the sailors scream? Comrades will you go? Avenge the cruel blow!" This represents future 2 because The United States is declaring war on Spain and invading Cuba as a direct response to an attack on our assets. -
Mckinley
U.S. wanted to help Cubans gains independence from Spain but also wanted to help our own interest.
“We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection and indemnity for life and property which no government can or will afford…”
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Miss CUBA
12/1898
Miss Columbia is trying to persuade Miss Cuba to become a state
“Won’t you join the stars and be my 46th?”
Future 2- we are asking them to be a part of our nation not allowing them to be truly independent and to benefit the U.S. -
Platt
America wants change in Cuba and trying to force democracy but rather than leaving the control to Cuba, like said in the Teller Amendment, they were forcing their rules upon Cuba.
“That said government should not assume or contract any public debt, to pay the interest upon which, and to make reasonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which, the ordinary revenues of the island, after defraying the current expenses of government shall be inadequate.”
Future 2 because the U.S. -
U.S. Foreign policy
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Exports of 1914
Giving more $ to the allies. Future 2 because we are protecting the united states interest. -
Wilsons declaration of neutrality
Best option is to stay isolated. Future 4 because we did not want to get involved at all -
Great Britain declares war on Germany
Great Britain is in a state of war with Germany. It was officially stated at the Foreign Office last night that Great Britain declared war against Germany at 7pm. The British Ambassador in Berlin has been handed his passport. Its future 2 because it decares war on another country -
Wilson changes attitude towards the loans
Our allies begin to pick sides. Future 2 because were -
German Admiralty Declaration Regarding Unrestricted U-Boat Warfare
If such a deplorable situation should arise, the Imperial German Government can readily appreciate that the Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial Government of Germany to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities, and to take any steps it might be necessary to take to safeguard American lives and property and to secure to American citizens the full enjoyment of their acknowledged rights on the high seas.
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“Peace Without Victory” speech by President Wilson
“Only a peace between equals can last, only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit”
Future 3 -
President Wilson’s War Message To Congress
“It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way.”
Future 2
Evidence: “But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts -- for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in t -
FDR on Europe War
It is right that I should recall to your minds the consistent and at time successful efforts of your Government in these crises to throw the full weight of the United States into the cause of peace. In spite of spreading wars I think that we have every right and every reason to maintain as a national policy the fundamental moralities, the teachings of religion (and) the continuation of efforts to restore peace -- (for) because some day, though the time may be distant, we can be of even greater h -
State of the union
What I seek to convey is the historic truth that the United States as a nation has at all times maintained clear, definite opposition, to any attempt to lock us in behind an ancient Chinese wall while the procession of civilization went past. Future 2 -
The Atlantic charter
No aggrandizement. Saftey within borders. -
Sources of soviet conduct
- On the principle of infallibility there rests the iron discipline of the Communist Party.
- Here caution, circumspection, flexibility and deception are the valuable qualities; and their value finds a natural appreciation in the Russian or the oriental mind. Thus the Kremlin has no compunction about retreating in the face of superior forces.
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Berlin Airlift
Event:Berlin Airlift
(1pt) Date:1948-1949
(2 pts) Description:
(2 pts) Evidence #1:The joint chief of staff recomended that plans should be made for attempting to supply Berlin by composite armed convoy so that we may be ready for such an event if when a developing situation and when they may be ready.
Future 3 U.S and allied countries supplied -
The Truman Doctrine
- President's Secretary's Files that outline Truman’s views on foreign policy. while conditions were less serious economically, the nation had been under constant pressure from the soviet government”.
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U2 Spy Plane Incident
"the president request, I advised General Twinning that the president has decided to disapprove any additional special fights by the u-2 unit in the present abnormally tense circumstance"
Future:2 it's protecting us because its stoping any further flights -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The CIA launched what it's leaders believed would be the definative strike: a full scale of invasion of cuba. "I believe Mr. Chairman that you should not recognize that free peoples in all parts of the world do not accept the claim of historic inevitability. Future:1&2 Tried to overthrow a comunist government. And the U.S. was protecting out government. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the soviet union engaged in a tense, 13 day political standoff in October 1962 over the installation . "we feel, o the basis of information that we presently have, that these are solid propellant, interial guidance missiles with eleven hundred mile range rather than the oxygen then the propellant. -
Nixon /China
As we look at the whole head of the world, and the balance of power in the world there is no reason for the peoples republic of china and the United States of America to be enemies" Future 2 & 3- stability in Asia willing to work in China -
Detente
"We head the most powerful nations... it is essationally that those two nations, where possible, work together.. if we decided to work together, we can change the world" Nixon Future 2- our best interest to work with soviet. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
"So the door to him coming to the United States was open in December and January of '78 & '79 primarily as an inducement to get him to sept down while there was still a chance of the moderate elements of the iranian government forming something less radical, less extreme than the khomeini government" Future 2 & 3- young iran students attack the US embassy b/c us help Ir Iranian leader w/ cancer treatments in US. -
Tear down this wall
Mikel Gorbachev/ Reagan had their first summit on November First, 1985
Chernobyl accident infected a lot of land with radiation
They met again in Iceland October 10th 1986
After the first morning Gorbachev wanted to reduce nuclear weapons and after the last minute the agreement fell apart
Future 2 because they were trying to come to an agreement on about the nuclear weapons being erased and no one being able to use them.