AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the defeat of Japan.
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freedom of the seas
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the collection of reparations.
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the division of Germany into two countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When Britain entered the First World War its war aims were simple: to restore Belgian sovereignty (as it was obliged to do, by the Treaty of London, 1839), and to maintain the balance of power in Europe by defending France and chastening Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Freedom of the seas” is a principle of the laws at sea. The US demanded that Germany respect such international agreements which protected neutral ships from seizure or sinking. Germany’s ongoing contravention of this was key to the US Declaration of War in 1917.
Detailed explanation-3: -The conceptual underpinnings for “freedom of the seas” lay in the 1908 Declaration of London and the international law it established for the conduct of naval warfare.
Detailed explanation-4: -Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.