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  • ...the Far East. The United States engaged in trade and investment in China. American missionaries representing many denominations worked within the region. The * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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  • ...of humanitarian aid as a form of diplomacy, and reinforced the belief that American security was linked to the economic progress and stability of other nations ...AID symbolized Kennedy’s invigorated approach to fostering the economic, political, and social development of recipient nations.
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  • * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: Japanese-American Relations at the Turn of the Century, 1900–1922
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  • ...re also a mainstay of the Republican Party, which dominated the Washington political scene after the Civil War. After the Democrats, who supported freer trade, To provide protection for American farmers, whose wartime markets in Europe were disappearing with the recover
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  • Lyndon Johnson’s presidency witnessed the transformation of the American role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ...aw UNEF from all its positions, including Sharm al-Shaykh, which would put political pressure on Nasser to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Nasse
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  • ====American Officials more concerned about Japan's invasion China==== ...ated the situation. Unable or unwilling to control the military, Japan’s political leaders sought greater security by establishing the “Greater East Asia Co
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  • Beyond its activities, the SEATO charter was also vitally important to the American rationale for the Vietnam War. The United States used the organization as i * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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  • [[File:London_Naval_Conference_1930.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Members of the American delegation to the London Naval Conference in 1930]]__NOTOC__ ...key naval officers concerned that the naval limitations would inhibit the American ability to defend its control of the Philippine islands. Then the United St
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  • ====Britain stopped US merchant ships and impressed American sailors into the British Navy==== ...utral commerce. Madison made the issue of impressment from ships under the American flag a matter of national sovereignty—even after the British agreed to en
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  • ...ound itself with an explosive legal and diplomatic case that would pit the American system’s ability to provide justice for all on its shores against the fed ====American officials seized the Amistad after captured Africans mutinied====
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  • ...Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, resolved these frictions in Anglo-American relations. On April 4, 1842, British diplomat Lord Ashburton arrived in Was ...bellion of 1837, several participants fled to the United States where some American adventurers joined them. This band occupied a Canadian island in the Niagar
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  • ...shed full colonial rule over the Philippines in 1900 during the Philippine-American War. ...he United States was a recognized world power with substantial commercial, political, and military interests and territorial holdings throughout the Pacific reg
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  • ...enth-century Europe, shaping historical interpretations and fomenting both political and social passions. ...more than the American Revolution, the French movement raised fundamental political questions.” (Popkin, 43) Questions concerning the French Revolution’s l
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  • ...’ obligation and right to extend its rule and liberties across the North American continent. The Oregon Territory stretched from the Pacific coast to the Roc As early as 1818 British and American Commissioners had fixed the border between the United States and Canada at
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  • ...e Japanese military victories, Roosevelt worried about the consequences to American interests if Japan managed to drive Russia out entirely. ====American public supported Japanese position====
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  • ...rst of these trips was conducted in great secrecy and only revealed to the American public during a dramatic speech by President Nixon. Kissinger’s second tr * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
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  • ...importance of democracy, a unified military, and equality for all Chinese political parties. The truce was tenuous, however, and, in spite of repeated efforts ====Nationalist government fled to Taiwan and American Policy towards China Flailed====
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  • ...the nations of Western Europe to become concerned about their physical and political security and the United States to become more closely involved with Europea ...the Truman Administration considered the possibility of forming a European-American alliance that would commit the United States to bolster the security of Wes
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  • ...h were desperately poor, altered the composition of the United Nations and political complexity of every region of the globe. In the mid to late 19th century, t ...the creation of numerous states lacking geographic, linguistic, ethnic, or political affinity.
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  • ...mmunity. Until the fall of 1973, the President and Kissinger held that any American diplomatic initiative would have to wait until after Israel’s elections t ...o the same for them. Not wanting to see Israel defeated, Nixon agreed, and American planes carrying weapons began arriving in Israel on October 14.
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