international relations ch2; america’s changing national interests
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America’s Changing National Interests
Andrés LópezDiana MartínezNatalia Dávila
Crown: Powers of the
British government.
1776
Independence
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”
SpainFrance
U.S.A
1782
Manifest Destiny“If we didn’t take it,
someone else would”Fo
rce/
Cas
h.
1793 neutrality.
1794Mon
roe
1823
ImperialismIs the amassing of
new lands using military or
economic means.
Imperialism
Goal
New Markets Resource
s
1914-1918World War I Conflict
Austro-Hungarian
EmpireSerbia
President Wilson
Isolationism.• The United States avoids foreign involvement.
World War II• Started in 1939 and showed
that Isolationism was wrong.
Franklin Roosevelt
• Roosevelt’s strategy was to help Britain without alarmingthe American Isolationist.
The Cold War.• F. Roosevelt revived the “Wilsonian Idealism.”