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The Monroe Dorine of 1823 stopped European countries from colonizong the Americas because the US wanted the Americas to be their land.
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The Opium war was started by the chinese in 1839 over Opium rights. THey faught against the British because the British had tryed to take contorl over Opium but soon the Chinese lost.
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In 1853 Commodore Perry arrived in Tokyo with three ships. Tokyo was frightened that the US were going to threaten them into giving them unterritorial rights.
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The Spanish American war was between the Spanish colonies in the Phillipines and the US over mainly Cuba and in 1898 the US won.
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The Mexican revolution was mainly about overthrowing their "dictator" Diaz to regain their independence and in the end they successfuly overthrow him.
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The opening of the Panama canal in 1914 would be important because it would save time and money because people would no longer have to go around the Americas, they could go through them.
