global issues amend 2007
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- interdependence
- relying on other countries to be connected through trade
- historical turning points in United states foreign policy
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1. the spanish american war
2. World War I
3. Post World War II - arguments for imperialism
- would serve military and commercial interests, allow us to promote American democratic values in foreign lands
- arguments against imperialism
- everyone has the right to govern their country as they feel fit. That's why we founded our country.
- Who's idea was the League of Nations?
- woodrow wilson
- Why didn't we join the League of Nations?
- the senate voted against it. They argued the treaty would require League members to come to the defense of nay member under attack
- Iron curtain
- The Soviets cut off Eastern Europe from it's western neighbors
- United states foreign policies
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1. containment
2. deterrence
3.preemptive military strikes - containment
- control the expansion of soviet communism through rehabilitation of the economic structure of europe
- deterrence
- the use and making of nuclear weapons to counter attacks on western europe
- preemptive military strike
- going to war with a country just because we think they have weapons or are building them
- Reasons for fear of globalization
- cultures and traditons of countries will be overwelmed by value, popular culture, technologies and lifestyles of the us