friday november 5

[5ashton :)]

Mr. bruns is talking about chapter 10chapter 10-America claims as empire*imperialism-where a stong country would take over a weaker country for a lot of reasons*militarism-maintaining the use of military of or threatening to use the militay*nationalism-partiotic feeling to ethnic groups*diplomacy-how we deal with other countries*spheres of influence- any area of the world that we had a lot of control over*protectorate-a strong country protects/controls a weaker country*arbitration-settlement between disputes of countries*noninterventionist-the US did not intervene in foreign affairs especially Europe*isolationist-the US acted alone in foreign affairs as compared to working with other nations*passive and reactive-the US waited for events to occur and then acted accordingly-weak army and navy*new diplomacy1. impreiasltic-going out and comquering territory to creat an empire-alfred mahan, henry cabot lodge, teddy roosevelt2. stonger army and navy3. internentionist- especially in central and south america-becoming more involved in other countries affairs-monroe doctrine4.strong natonalism-having strong pride and confidence in one's country*imperialism and america-inperialism became very common with the major powers of the world-wwhich countries were the most powerful in 1990?great britian, france, italy, russia, u.s., japan, germany, austria hungary*why did the US and other countries look to imperialism?-brings mititary power and prestige to your country-naval bases and refueling stations-$$$$-for natural resources as weill as opening new markets to sell uour good (trade)-belief in curtural superiority-White Man's Burden-McKinley: "to take themall and to educate the Philipinos, and upleft and civillize and Christianize them."-Taft: we must he;p of "little brown brothers" on the Philippines*Ch. 10.2-the spanish american war-by 1900, spain was a dwindling empire-Philippines, guam, cuba, puerto rico, and a few colonies in africa _morocco and western sahara)-the US had been interested in cube for a long time-US tried to buy cuba in 1854-cubans had veed revolving against spain frequently (1868, 1878, 1895) wanting independence