USA HISTORY

Use the quote below to answer the following question.England’s naval bases have been in all parts of the world and her fleets have at once protected them, ..and therefore, the surest means of supporting abroad the sea power of a country ____ Britain’s power was everywhere that her ships could reach ____ Alfred Thayer Mahan’s “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History", 1890What did Mahan believe the US needed to do in order to succeed as an imperial power?

(A) build a large air force

(B) build a large standing army

(C) build army bases throughout Europe

(D) ** build naval bases throughout the world

Concept note-1: -Alfred Thayer Mahan also argued that modern navies needed repair and coaling stations. Those facilities would not be dependable if controlled by other nations. This reasoning inferred a rationale for American acquisition of port facilities throughout the world.

Concept note-2: -Mahan argued that British control of the seas, combined with a corresponding decline in the naval strength of its major European rivals, paved the way for Great Britain’s emergence as the world’s dominant military, political, and economic power.

Concept note-3: -In The Influence of Sea Power upon History, Alfred Thayer Mahan studied the rise and fall of naval powers. He concluded that supremacy at sea was essential for a nation’s political and commercial success.

Concept note-4: -In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.