Cuba was an excellent place, since the U.S. already had investments there. ... (Zinn, 303) Cuban rebels began conflicts with Spain in an effort to gain independence. ... Basically, the only ones who were profiting from the war were the businessmen and the government. ... (Zinn, 410) Zinn also points out that Pearl Harbor was "not really sudden or shocking to the American government." ... In WWI, the public fought for something only the government and industrialists would profit from. ...

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Yes, the US may have been fighting for a noble cause but the treatment of the Filipinos during the war was similar if not the same, as the Spain's treatment of the Cubans. When the US eventually won the war, they did gain the freedom of the Cuban people, but this also came with Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands, which was paid for, in the Treaty of Paris (Doc B). Not only did the US acquire control of these countries, they also watched over the Cubans during the construction of their constitution, and the US ended up owning a naval base called Guantanamo Bay that was situat...

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They had different ideas about economics and government. ... In 1959, Cuba became a communist country and the Soviets secretly put missiles there. ... He sent warships to surround Cuba. ... This conflict was called the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... Our world wouldn't be the same if Hitler hadn't decided to try and take over Europe, or if the Russians hadn't planted missiles in Cuba. ...

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Months later, Admiral William Sampson repeated with a victory over the Spanish in a battle off Santiago, Cuba. ... He also recommended that they preserve China's territory and its government. ... If every country washed by the Carribean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt Amendment, Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all questions of interference by this nation with their affairs would be at an end. ...

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The United States had an interest in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Panama Canal. ... The policy stated that to win American recognition, they must not only exercise power but reflect "a just government based upon law, not upon arbitrary or irregular force." ...

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The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and p...

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Fearing the danger of Spanish control of Cuba, Teddy strongly advocated war against Spain; but McKinley was doubtful of starting the war, waiting for public opinion to lead him what to do. ... Roosevelt also wanted to start the first Voluntary cavalry regiment that would be sent to Cuba to fight. ... They were one of the first regiments to land in Cuba, and their greatest victory was the taking over of San Juan Hill, that would later lead them to Santiago. ... The Hepburn Act gave the government power to set freight rates. ...

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Fearing the danger of Spanish control of Cuba, Teddy strongly advocated war against Spain; but McKinley was doubtful of starting the war, waiting for public opinion to lead him what to do. ... Roosevelt also wanted to start the first Voluntary cavalry regiment that would be sent to Cuba to fight. ... They were one of the first regiments to land in Cuba, and their greatest victory was the taking over of San Juan Hill, that would later lead them to Santiago. ... The Hepburn Act gave the government power to set freight rates. ...

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I will also go over an example of each and get a grasp of what our government's two political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, say about these. ... In fact, the United States got involved eight times from 1904 to 1934, then again in the affairs of Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the destruction of the leftist government of Brazil after the second world war. ... Kennedy not only began the counterinsurgency force called the Green Berets to stop communism, but also invaded Cuba and posed the question of war with Russia. ... All this support was for naught though, fore in Ja...

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Woodrow Wilson President Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country"(Internet 1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted i...

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A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ... The American government after the war, realized it was in a very profitable position, with many of the smaller countries having to choose whether to side with the reds or the red white and blue. ...

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