HIST 2057 : Unit II.docx
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Old role: americans foreign policy always was aimed at ensuring markets abroad, still a big part today we generate an excess, manifest destiny, access to markets overseas, exporting political ideas, democracy and capitalism. New activism: spanish-american war, war with the us and spain fought in cuba, cuba was a spanish colony. In the 1890s the cuban people began a revolution did to leave. Philippines, but we will only stay there to teach them democracy then we will leave: philippine war (1899-1902, brutal nasty gorilla war, cost the us 4,000 dead soldiers. 3: open door policy, we go to china with missionaries to convert them to christianity before we go there to conduct trade, european powers are already there in china (control ports, ex. Insuring a market doing it in a different way: confronting europe and japan and russia, latin america, caribbean, the monroe doctrine, powers can no longer establish colonies in our backyard iii.
