AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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to remove threat of future wars.
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to prevent nuclear proliferation.
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to help the US gain more territories.
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to help promote prohibition in other countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most important for Wilson, the League would guarantee the territorial integrity and political independence of member states, authorize the League to take “any action…to safeguard the peace, ” establish procedures for arbitration, and create the mechanisms for economic and military sanctions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The League of Nations was established at the end of World War I as an international peacekeeping organization. Although US President Woodrow Wilson was an enthusiastic proponent of the League, the United States did not officially join the League of Nations due to opposition from isolationists in Congress.
Detailed explanation-4: -Unfortunately, the League failed miserably in its intended goal: to prevent another world war from happening (WW2 broke out only two decades later). The idea was for the League of Nations to prevent wars through disarmament, collective security, and negotiation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”