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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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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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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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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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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VICT port has recently awarded with ''Emerging Container Terminal" Award by Lloyd's List Maritime Asia, a prestigious magazine specialized in shipping and maritime related issues such as port operation and management. ... The company did honorably welcome the visit of Former American President Bill Clinton on October 19, 2000. ...

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