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introduction
During this time period we had a lot going on containing to the military and the relations between other countries. For instance we had many conflicts during this period with other countries that we even went to war over. For example, Banana Wars (1898-1935) this occurred in Latin America, Morro Rebellion (1899-1913) this was an armed insurgency between Muslim Filipino tribes in Southern Philippines, Mexico (1910-1919) Mexican Revolution involved a civil war that U.S. president Woodrow Wilson sent U.S. forces, World War I (1917-1918) insisted on its right as a neutral party to immunity from German Submarine attack, Russian Revolution (1918-1919) added them since we were alliances during the World War I we also wanted democracy, 1920s Naval Disarmament the U. S. sponsored a major world conference to limit the Naval armaments of world powers, including the U.S., Britain, Japan, and France, plus smaller nations, and finally the 1930s Neutrality Acts after the costly U.S. involvement in the World War I, isolationism grew within the nation and Congress refused membership in League of Nations. As you can tell we had upset many other countries but we had again may friends/alliances through those wars. This was a great thing for America to have alliances so if we ever got into trouble they can help us out like we helped them out. Many other things also happened including the Platt Amendment, Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War against Germany, and other amendments. This time period was packed with great and not so great things.
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain, that ended Spanish colonel rule in Americas. It also resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the Western Pacific and Latin America. The War originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which begin in the 1895. Spain brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically shown in the United States public by several sensational newspapers, and American sympathy for the rebels grew. During this time this letter was written by Spanish Ambassador to the United States, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd. Publication of the letter helped generate public support for a war with Spain over the issue of independence for the Spanish colony of Cuba. This only made America greatly upset so the United States sent down troops to help the rebellion fighters but that was a bust since we had an unexplained sinking in that ship and many thought that the Spanish had thrown a bomb into the ship to blow it up, when it was only a malfunction in the engine. Nonetheless America soon after declared war on Spain. Once we had won the war we made agreements with Spain were they had to leave Cuba and the Philippines. With much debate and arguing Spain finally agreed and left Cuba and the Philippines. This relates back to the main topic of foreign policy because we had originally had the Monroe Doctrine and the Spanish had completely disregarded this and we helped Cuba gain their independence and Philippines away from Spain. This was our first time having to go against the Spanish and it turned out to be a success for us and Cuba. Also this showed us what we could do when we came into a problem with another country and it ended very well.
This first picture is the Platt Amendment. This explained that the United states would end its military occupation of Cuba and "leave the government and control of the island of Cuba to its people." We would give the Cuban people their independence with their alliance with the United States.
The second picture shows the Zimmerman telegram that we had interfered with since it was supposed to go to Mexico. It had explained that Germany would send Mexico supplies so they could invaded the Untied States so we wouldn't enter the World War but we had gotten it before Mexico did. The third and final picture is the German Advertisement that stated if they say any ship that was alliances with Great Britain that they would sink it. This was a major problem for us since we had ships leave and within 20 miles from the dock we were finding our ships at the bottom of the ocean. These all showed how we weren't in good relations with over countries during this time period. |