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United States Foreign Policy
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McKinley, Future 2
Explains why the U.S should inase cuba and how it will benefit the U.S economy. -
Teller, Future 1
The response of the U.S to get involved to free the people of Cuba -
Platt, Future 2
That the government of cuba consents that the U.S may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the U.S now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba -
Declaration of Neutrality, Future 4
The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men's souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another. -
Protest Against Maritime Warfare
The present condition of American foreign trade resulting from the frequent seizures and detentions of American cargoes destined to neutral European ports has become so serious as to require a candid statement of the views of this Government in order that the British Government may be fully informed as to the attitude of the United States toward the policy which has been pursued by the British authorities during the present war. -
Wilson addresses the Senate about Peace Without Victory
Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last, only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. —Peace Without Victory -
Wilson’s War Message to Congress, Future 1
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts -- for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. -
President Wilson's 14 Points, Future 3
"In regard to these essential rectifications of wrong assertions of right we feel ourselves to be intimate partners of all the governments and people's associated together against the imperialists." -
President Wilson's 14 Points, Future 2
"we had entered this war because violations of right had occured which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against the recurrence". -
Lodge's Case Against League of Nations, Future 2
A group of Nations trying to promote peace aross America after the war
"I am as anxious as any human being can be to have the U.S render every possible service to the civilization and the peace of mankind". -
Covenant off the League of Nations, Future 1, Future 4
wanting peace throughtout all the dfferent nations
"all members of the league recognizes that maintenence of peace requires the reduction of national arguments".
"League shall take any action that may deemed wise and effectual" -
Fireside Chat on the European War, Future 4
He is trying to keep things neutral between the countries.
"Let no man or woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its armies to European fields. At this moment there is being prepared a proclamation of American neutrality." -
On Lend Lease, Future 3
This decision is the end of any attempts at appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to get along with dictators; the end of compromise with tyranny and the forces of oppression. -
Day of Infamy Speech, Future 2
They believed that democracy, because of its profound respect for the rights of man, would never arm itself to fight.