The leaders of the U.S. feared that if we let communists have Korea, or Asia, they could gain momentum and take Europe. This "domino theory" played a big role in U.S. foreign policy. As the Truman Doctrine stated, it was the "policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures." ... The $17 billion in aid also helped U.S. exports and markets for the future. The Berlin Airlift saw U.S. and Royal Airlift planes bring supplies to Berliners, breaking the Russian blockade. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. ... These three components shaped America history for immigrants. ... One of the most significant steps in the rights of Chinese in the U.S. would also take place in 1870, in which congress would debate whether Asians should be eligible for naturalization. ... The history of the Chinese people has been long and strenuous. ... The Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first time in history that an immigrant group was excluded on the bas...

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But then in the sunset decades of the nineteenth century, a momentous shift occurred in U.S. foreign policy. ... Strong trumpeted the superiority of Anglo-Saxon civilization and summoned Americans to spread their religion and their values to the "backward- people. ... The development of a new steel navy also focused attention overseas, during both centuries. (19th and 20th) captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. ... Some anti-imperialists argued a moral position: it was ...

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Therefore, people may wonder which group of people really rooted from this land, and the answer is really obvious -- Native Americans. ... There are so many questions coming out from people's mind. ... Stearn claimed that "it not only decimated the native population for four centuries, but so demoralized the tribes through the terror it spread among them that it has been considered by many authorities to have been an important factor in their comparatively easy subjugation by the whites"(D' Errico). ... Till today, the population and the magnitude of their lands are fewer a...

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Rios-Bustamante, an assistant professor and research coordinator of Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona, states, "`We"re thought of as a working-class people, and there is an idea that because we are a working-class people, we are uninterested in education."" ... Since the implementation of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, school districts across the nation have created programs that allow non-English speaking students to participate in intensive English language courses while learning other subjects, such as math, history, and science, in their native languages. ...

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