Korea, for example, saw the American troops as means of economic gain. ... Racist stereotypes of Asians within American society are strongly correlated with sexist stereotypes of Asian women. These notions foster American participation in Camp-Town prostitution. ... The American military displays their patriarchal tendencies through justification of social manipulation of Asian societies. ... Several reasons have been presented as to why American military men feel as though they can use Asian women to fulfill their sexual desires. ...

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American Imperialism The United States became an imperialist nation in the very late 1800's, the Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destiny. ... America came out of the Spanish-American War as a major naval power. ... This sparked the great confidence in America. ... After achieving power of the Philippines the United States became an "Asian Power", and they hoped to take advantage of this trading empire emerging in China, however china was becoming fed up. ... The enforcement of the Roosevelt Doctrine was the basis of America's stance on wa...

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The focus is on the rise of Asian nationalism. Embittered by the failure of the victorious powers to dismantle their imperial empires in the Pacific, their peoples racked by poverty, famine and cultural ferment, Asia's leaders sought new strategies for change. ... Sentimental Imperialists: America in Asia This video examines American attitudes toward Asia from 1776 to the present: the merchants, missionaries, and Marines who-however well-intentioned-often saw in Asia and Asians what they wanted to see, rather than the realities of those cultures and peoples. ... Taft later became an A...

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Johnson broad military powers, the Vietnam War became Americanized with the first American combat troops arriving and the first continuous bombing of North Vietnam. Although never declared an official war by the United States, it was "entered" by the Americans in order to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. ... Although many Americans supported this at the start of the war, as the fighting progressed it came to divide the United States as no other event had since the Civil War. ... Many returning soldiers faced apathy or antagonism from an embittered America. ...

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The Spanish American War of 1898 One hundred years ago, in 1898, the United States was fighting the Spanish-American War. ... Spain was by this time a decaying, weak empire, and no match for a vigorous, muscular American military kept in shape by killing American Indians. ... After a brief bombardment, the 1st American Volunteer Cavalry began its assault. ... Slowly the two American warships gained on the Colon. ... The battle between the American fleet and the Spanish Fleet was decidedly one-sided in favor of the Americans and resulted in an overwhelming American victory. ...

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The American Revolution marked the beginning of a new nation. ... Early American leaders wanted to free themselves from monarchical rule. ... They maintained a large Army and Navy and had colonies in India, Asia and North America. ... The Americans fought a long war for their independence. ... American leaders began to implement their values in a new government. ...

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Throughout the history of the United States of America the intense and controversial view of "equality" has been a hot topic. ... As a human being and especially as a citizen of the United States of America, I believe that civil rights are a very intricate part of our existence. ... And since, the affirmative action programs focused on minority groups that were determined by the federal government such as: Asian or Pacific Islander-Persons having origins in any of the original people of the far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. ... Black (not of Hispanic Or...

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Many corporations that are, or shall we say were, truly patriotic, genuinely domestic, and authentically American, are outsourcing to various Asian countries. ... When all the people who work in the computer departments are laid off in the near future, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be taken from American hands and transferred to other countries. Assuming that each of these people that will be laid off have a family to support (with the average American family household of five), outsourcing is going to leave more than one million Americans to fend for themselves. ... When you look at outs...

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Pritzker stated to reporters while touring in Asia that U.S. is political deadlock and jitters over its debt (Gangopadhyay & Ng, 2013). ... In addition, Pritzker reporting to Asia that U.S. debt will not deter long-term investors from investing in the biggest world economy. ... The main conclusion in this article is foreign investor are having a difficult time investing in America. ... The TPP will regulate U.S. every move and we will loss all our human rights as citizen of United States of America. ... U.S. may need to rely on the printed words they put on all the American money that quotes...

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Adlai traveled extensively in America and Europe and was educated at the Choate School, Princeton, Harvard, and Northwestern University. ... He defended Truman's foreign policy of containment, but rejected the President's "give 'em hell" approach instead of "talking sense" to the American people. ... He stressed two themes---discontinue using the arms race and encourage economic development in Asia and Africa. ... No matter what, he resisted pressure from others to resign, and he openly defended American policies. Before his death of a heart attack on July 14, 1965, in London, h...

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Most Americans simply assume that the United States is a democracy. ... In his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." ... It has also been speculated that Roosevelt instigated the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor by refusing to trade with Japan until it stopped its military exploits in Asia (Hargrove 102). ... A president's actions can help support the American democracy also. ... Yet Reagan's steadfastness proved that he was willing to support the American people's goals and thus be working part of American democracy...

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Most Americans simply assume that the United States is a democracy. ... In his campaign Johnson promised American voters "that American boys would not fight Asian boys in Vietnam." ... It has also been speculated that Roosevelt instigated the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor by refusing to trade with Japan until it stopped its military exploits in Asia (Hargrove 102). ... A president's actions can help support the American democracy also. ... Yet Reagan's steadfastness proved that he was willing to support the American people's goals and thus be working part of American democracy...

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The American people were outraged by this increase. ... He sent envoys to European, Asian, African, and Latin American capitals carrying a message of America's desire for peace. ... When the end of 1967 approached the American public support for the war had dropped to only 39%. The president's performance was not being approved by the American public. ... I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam. ...

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Americans became concerned when the Latin American nations came into debt with European powers because they were often poor nations that were unable to pay and prone to revolution. ... This policy warned the Latin American nations to keep their affairs in order or face American intervention. ... The protests involved American goods and money and Germany's submarine policy threatened American's lives. ... Five American ships were sunk as a result of these attacks. 4. ... It divided up the German colonies in Asia and Africa. ...

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Just recently, an 8.1 earthquake devastated West Korea, a small country in the Eastern regions of Asia. ... Furthermore, helping a rebuilding process also instills valuable knowledge into the American government. ... They fear that after a certain number of natural disasters, the American economy will be severely weakened and the citizens will have to bear the consequences. ... Together, Japanese and American forces helped those in need, and solidified the friendship between our two great nations for generations to come" (Ruch). ...

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The principal goal of the expedition was to locate such a route and survey its potential as a waterway for American westward expansion. ... The vicious murder of President Kennedy had various effects on America and on the world. ... The American Football League postponed its games. ... After a century of friendship, Americans and Russians quarreled over Asian questions in the 1890s, and became enemies in 1917 when the Communists seized power, established the Soviet Union, and declared ideological war on the capitalist nations of the West. ... Truman opposed Stalin's policy and moved to un...

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This reason was a valid one because it was the American policy to stay neutral in any affairs not having to with them unless American soil was threatened directly. ... Why risk going to war, when it is contrary to American policy which most if not all Americans were in agreement with and not mentioning the fact that the American military was in shambles. ... American investments in Germany increased by forty per cent between 1936 and 1940 America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had diminished during World War 1. The real concern of American business was not "the rights or wrongs o...

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At the root of the Cold War was the American fear of the spread of communism throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and eventually mainland USA. ... Americans were so fearful of a communist foothold in Latin America that a statement with echoes of the Monroe Doctrine was made asserting that any spread of communism in the Americas was a direct threat to the sovereignty and independence of the American people, endangering peace. ... If communism was allowed to slip into the continent, it was only a matter of time before it spread throughout the landmass, up into Central America and on the Americ...

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Theodore Roosevelt appealed greatly to the American nation. ... He believed that America should spread out throughout Europe and to the rest of the world. As the President, Roosevelt looked out for the best interest of the United States and " flexed America's muscle abroad" Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to acknowledge " that a nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglement of its past" When war broke out between the U.S. and Spain when Cuba attempted to achieve their independence, Theodore Roosevelt formed a group called th...

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Theodore Roosevelt appealed greatly to the American nation. ... He believed that America should spread out throughout Europe and to the rest of the world. As the President, Roosevelt looked out for the best interest of the United States and " flexed America's muscle abroad" Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to acknowledge " that a nation's future trade posture must be toward Asia and away from the Old World entanglement of its past" When war broke out between the U.S. and Spain when Cuba attempted to achieve their independence, Theodore Roosevelt formed a group called th...

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It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. ... in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... The first year he was president, Nixon created the Guam doctrine, which allowed him to remove ground troops from South Vietnam, but continue sending aid to the Asian nations fighting communism. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war...

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Such events were the rising into power of the United States of America and the success of its Marshall Plan or the European Recovery Program which was an effort to rebuild Europe from the ravages of war. It was a theory of development based upon the successes of the West and was prescribed to developing newly-decolonized nation-states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ... It should also be noted that Macapagal tried to seek better relations with our Asian neighbors, Malaysia and Indonesia. ...

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This man was not an Irish-American; he was an Irishman who became an American. ... Wilson argued that any American ought to be defined as American, and not taking into account their place of origin (Irish-American, Jewish-American ...) when they vote they are all Americans. ... The leaders of the different groups of immigrants as Italian-Americans, the Jewish-American, or Hungarian-American, demanded explanations for the comments made by Wilson in his book. ... Wilson's long campaign for immigration, his meetings with the different ethnic groups in America, his speeches defending the ...

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Though Americans were not fighting the Koreans or the Chinese in Vietnam, the Americans were still fighting communist forces. ... Links between both the American and Communist forces strategies were plain to see, tactics were not however the key to America changing its policy on War. ... Johnson called the Americans being sent to the Southeast Asia military Advisors. ... Like the Presidents before him Bush upheld Americas policy of limited war. ... It was these actions that shaped the future policies of America's conflicts....

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He was most concerned with America's liberty in the use of the country's national resources. In his ideas concerning women and African Americans Roosevelt was not as progressive as his economic policy may have made him seem. ... He believed that it was the duty of white Americans to help the less-capable other races, including Asians and Native Americans. ... While Roosevelt passed many laws on the regulation of trusts, Wilson set out to destroy them and believed that they caused most of the problems in America's economy. Roosevelt believed that the trusts supported the ...

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