Do you think the United States had become an "Imperial America" (the text chapter's title) by 1900? If so, what events persuade you that America had become imperialistic? If not, explain why imperialism is an unsuitable label for American fore
policy in the late nineteenth century.
Imperial: Since 1865, the United States had acquired Wake, Midway, Guam, Samoa, Hawaii, and the Philippines in the Pacific, and Puerto Rico and a protectorate over Cuba in the Caribbean. It had also conducted its diplomacy in an "imperial" manner with Chile and Venezuela.
Non-imperial: This was an aberrant burst of colony gathering that did not continue after 1900.
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A) It had very little effect because it was not carried out effectively. B) It inspired the Soviet Union to continue to expand its communist empire. C) It succeeded in forcing the Soviet Union to stop expanding its communist empire. D) It failed to revive the sagging postwar economies of Western Europe. E) It sparked a successful financial recovery in Western Europe.
The Soviet Union demonstrated the high cost of ________
A) rapid industrialization B) consumerism C) tight environmental controls D) collectivization
In 1920, just after the end of _________, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed and women won the right to vote. a. World War II B. the Industrial Revolution C. World War I D. the Progressive era
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The Thirty Years’ War started as a struggle over religious issues but became a wider conflict due to political motivations.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)