Why did America become an imperialist power in the beginning of the 20th and what evidence supports this conclusion? Why did the American government promote action in Vietnam? Jimmy Carter tried to continue Detente with what policy? How did the Cold War cause for nuclear deterrance? ...
Why did countries scramble for Africa in World War I and what were the outcomes? How has the invasion of Poland contributed to the start of WWII? What factors brought the United States into World War II? Why did America become an imperialist power in the beginning of the 20...
In general, I half expected everyone to run away upon the sight of us, or ignore us completely out of fear of being associated with an evil imperialist (which coincidentally, is my new AIM screename). But at times, people were surprisingly bold. After laying flowers at the statue of the...
At one point in time, China and Japan originally rejected the idea of increasing trade at the demands of the Europeans and Americans, China’s government was unable to push its country to become powerful and modern because they proceeded to resist western pressure to open trade, which caused ...
Thomas on the stump. The "gentleman socialist"—the man who supported America's imperialist meddling in Vietnam— had some insalubrious subterranean connections. Like social democratic parties in other countries, the Socialists opposed communism in the name of democracy. But Thomas could not have ...
Why did businesmen want the United States to expand into the Pacific? Manifest Destiny: Manifest Destiny was a motivating factor in America's westward expansion. Many Americans felt that they had a god-given right to take vast stretched of North America that did not originally belong to...
Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reinelt was someone who wanted to leave the world a better place than she found it, and she ...
If my impressions are accurate, such a population, in a meritocracy like America, should quickly rise to positions of responsibility and wealth and become quite influential. If so, would this not at least partially account for U.S. leanings toward protecting Israel? Having said that, I've he...
t absurd. The Chinese government at the time did do some serious thinking and noticed that multi-party systems suddenly introduced with no existing traditions led to civil wars and had failed in Latin America. The big trouble was that everybody knew that Yuan had a long history of betrayal ...
This informingbackground may help, at least partially, to account, not only how such murder-ous conclusions could be reached but also how and why such a worldview couldbecome accepted–or at least vaguely plausible and not resisted–to millions ofpeople.Of what did these new building blocks ...