Imperalism

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The word Imperalism connoted that a country tries to broaden their influence on other countries. In this way Imperalism is the pursuit of hegemony. The U.S. became involved in it in the early 1900's. With the win of the Spanish-American war (1898), the U.S joined the circle of the imperalism global power. With the aquirement of the Phillippines and Puerto Ricos and throw the capture of Cuba and the building of the Panama Canal they are a step futher to compete with the Europien empires. However the goal of the United States was to allocate economic- and military tags.===== 

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In my oppinion people think absolutly different about the American Imperalism. Not only the different sides, like Americans and Irans(for example ), I mean in generall. People from one nation think different about this topic how our debate showed in the last lesson. A lot of us could feel with the other country. With that inhabatians who had nothing to do with that fight that the U.S. had with Iran about natural resorces (for example: Oil). About those who lost their own life, family members, friends or all their belongings. Others in class could totally agree with the war. In their opinion war, the dead of people, belongs to life. When it helps to archieve more power and something like oil. If we would give every single person who died, a personal story and a face would they still hold their though? When they would reolized that they did not thought of humen when they made their thought, when they would reolize that they treated men like chessmen. Would they still hold their mind? But the other question is how much is a men life in fact of something bigger? In this way there is no generall solution of the question how people feel because there are always two sides of thinking.=====

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Spanish-American War: Was a militarian argument between the USA and the kingdom of Spain. In the end the USA won and Spain had to give all islands to them and the Philippines were delievered to the USA for 20 million Dollar. In this way, America gained a lot o power because they could tax the people, could sell their nature resources and got them by self for less than normal. So their economy got a little boom. With the help of the Panama Canal which is a waterway that connects the Atlantic and the Parcific for the shipping America earned even more power. Now they can controll who is allowed to use it. In this way they can put others under pressure because the waterway is shorter than the normal way and thereby cheeper because as a user one safes a lot of time and money. This underlines another time that Imperalism means for a country a lot of power and power is always good because a country that has power finds a lot of ways to benefit from something. The Phillipine Insurrection was a fight to independence from the Philipines that they not archieved untill 1946. It was a bloody guerrilla war that the US won. They were still owners of the territory. The Americans had the power over the country and his resources. In this way, the Imperalism helped them here also to benefit more.===== An other way to benefit is the term that describe the international relations is the Open-Door Policy, it is in one way the opposite of Imperalism, its allowed countries with equal opportunities to trade with colonial or developing countries, not only with one. This has a lot of advantages for both sides because more countries can get use of something and the country that is bargaining can get the best deals out of it. Roosevelt Corollary and Dollar Diplomacy was another way to gain power without having a military war. The Dollar diplomacy seeks to extend a nation's business interests in other countries through superior economic power instead of war.