The U.S.'s Foreign Policy during 1898-1945
The U.S. has always seemed to be up to its neck in foreign policy, and 1898-1945 was no exception. The Spanish-American war was the starting point of U.S. foreign policy and World War II was the ending point for the U.S.'s foreign policy of this time period. Along with those wars and World War I another thing other than fighting that was apart of the U.S.'s foreign policy was the Panama Canal. In the Spanish-American war President William McKinley first tried to be a moderator between the Spanish and the Rebels in Cuba that were trying to gain their independence. Soon after McKinley tried to help the negotiat
Here, at first, our foreign policy was mainly just diplomacy and seeking a truce between our fellow nations, but then when Spain backed out and walked away from our open arms we turned to war. During the beginning of World War II we were again against getting involved with the war. In all of these instances I completely agree that that was the right amount of foreign policy whether it be war or whether it be helping some country. signed a treaty with Panama agreeing that Panama was a country and that the U. ions, Spain backed off and McKinley bowed under increasing pressure from the public and from the Congress to go to war with Spain for the freedom of Cuba. got permission from Britain to go ahead with building the Canal independently. When we did our foreign policy was that of beat the crap out of the axis scumbags that had the nerve to attack the world's greatest nation, the United States. In the Panama Canal we did that mainly for our own benefit even though it would benefit just about every major country that did any type of trade.
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