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This is a good overview of how America's power grew in the world over time, 1776-present.

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the modern United States is the most powerful country in human history with over 800 military bases and 37% Global military spending the US has become the leader of a vast interconnected global system this help usher in an era of fascinated prosperity and low levels of conflict understand America's position in the world and why it's so pivotal for World Politics as we know it you have to go back to the country sounding back to one America wasn't a global power in any sense of the word during the first years of its existence in both territory and influence North America eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean in a wave and expansionism that resulted in the wholesale Slaughter of the indigenous people of popular to the come early Americans were deeply divided us weather country should expand beyond the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans this became a major debate after the Civil War when some leaders like post-war Secretary of State Seward argued that America should push to become a global power Seward succeeded in pushing a plan to purchase Alaska from Russia what is the temp to buy Greenland and Iceland as well as Annex territory in the Caribbean are all blocked by Congress that's because some Americans including many on Capitol Hill had a strong and time. I spent these people worried about America getting more involved in will Politics as well as having any great populations from quote-unquote inferior races and the supposition implied major checks on the imperialist arch to expand but something was happening in the late 1800s that would change the debate about American expansionism the Industrial Revolution explosive economic growth and the bigger US economy required a more centralized State and bureaucracy to manage the growing economy power became concentrated in the federal government making it easier for expansion is President's like William McKinley to unilaterally push American influence abroad the key turning point came in 1898 when President McKinley Drive the country into war with Spain over Cuba despite some intense domestic opposition the rising United States easily defeated the moribund Spanish Empire acquiring Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines lacrosse over the next two years the US would Annex the Kingdom of Hawaii Wake Island and American Samoa a few years later the US to control the Panama Canal Zone and send troops to occupy the Dominican Republic it also purchased the American Virgin Islands this. Of rapid position of far-flung territories put the US on the map as a truly Global power during this time America also began using its influence to protect its growing Commercial and Military interests abroad installing Pro American teams in places like Nicaragua and playing a major role in turn a call the policy regarding the Western presence in China World War 1 show just how much America's influence of ground Not only was American intervention a decisive factor in the war's end the President Wilson attended the Paris peace conference which ended the war and its set the terms of the peace he spearheaded America's most ambitious foreign policy initiative yet and international organization of the League of Nations designed to promote peace and cooperation globally a wholesale effort to remake politics show just how ambitious American foreign-policy to become isolationism most of a Major Force in the United States Congress block the United States from joining the League of Nations dooming Wilson project during the Great Depression in the rise of Hitler the US was much more focus on its own region then on European Affairs ultimately America's ever-growing entanglements abroad made it impossible for it to stay out of global Affairs entirely in East Asia the growing Japanese empire direct threat to American possessions and troops in Japan of the conflict this culminated in the Pearl Harbor attack bring the United States into World War 2 presents forever United States with the old major power to avoid economic ruin during the war it was the sole country equipped with atomic weapons as such it was in a unique position to set the terms of the peace and with the aim of preventing another war in mind it took advantage the most famous example of the the creation of the United Nations Charter set up a system of international law prohibiting Wars of Conquest like the ones wage by the Nazis in the Japanese it also serves as a forum in which the International Community could weigh in on disputes and help resolve them this way. Harkins helped powers can resolve their differences through compromise and law rather than more call the UN is the most famous of the post-war institutions it isn't the only one 730 delegates from all 44 Allied skin together on a small vacation Haven in New Hampshire their goal to establish a Global Financial system that would prevent another Great Depression and World War II call the Bretton Woods agreement ultimately came the backbone of the global Finance system resulting in the world bank and the international monetary fund The Crazies institutions in the United States committed itself to being deeply involved in the world's problems tissues what's second largest power the Soviet Union saw things differently allies out of the democratic and communist East in the fight against Hitler but I couldn't last the United States I'll Soviet expansion Eastern Europe and elsewhere as a direct threat to its vision of a trading Democratic world to a substantial degree and one farmer another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon our own liberty fearful of Soviet intentions worth Western Europe the Us and other European nations created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization a military Alliance meant to stop Russia from invading other countries in Europe globally the US come into strategy called containment so called because it was aimed at containing the spread of Communism everywhere on the globe this new Global struggle meant the US had to exert influence everywhere all the time instead of disbanding the massive time machine created from World War II the wheels turning this had two main results first the US was pulled into unlikely alliances with countries like Saudi Arabia Israel and South Korea sing each of them as bulwarks against communist influence in that region secondly do us begin intervening often secretly in dozens of countries to contain Soviet influence sometimes the snow probably have some thetic dictators like a neuron other and then supplying rebels of arms and money like in Afghanistan in 1979 and Nicaragua in 1985 over the course of the Cold War us intervene in hundreds of disputes around the globe ending up with a complicated sound of a lion suspension relationships and basically every corner of the Earth touch of the Berlin Wall fell could have withdrawn from the system severing ties with its allies and drawing down the size of its military and while the US did decrease military much of the military infrastructure and alliances from the Cold War remained President George HW Bush and Bill Clinton decided that it was in both America and the world's interest for the United States now the sole superpower on Kurt to continue actively managing Global affairs we should be and we must be peacemakers NATO created solely as a tool for countering Soviet Union State together and even expanded a way of keeping European nations United in the absence of the Soviet threat Washington support for countries like Israel in Japan stayed intact ostensibly as a means of preventing war and their respective regions the global system of alliances and institutions created to keep the peace during the Cold War became permanent after the American Military and political coup it's necessary to keep them running the system remains in operation today and no leading American politician since the cold war is seriously called for dismantling it except perhaps for Donald Trump is a contradictory things about these commitments but he's consist argued that American Allies are not paying the US enough for its protection and question the value free trade that calls in NATO and even the World Trade Organization to question at some point we have to say you know what we're better off if Japan protects itself against this Maniac in North Korea with better off frankly if South Korea is going to start to protect his Saturday Raven absolutely policy since 1945 and something closer to the eye lesions on the Kindle for it so Will President Trump Acton Summit Canada Trump's ideas and reverse decades worth of institution building and alliances will find out soon enough

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