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Mexican American
- The U.S. wanted to expand its territory so they went to war with the Mexicans
- At that time, only about 75,000 Mexican citizens lived north of the Rio Grande
- Nonetheless, annexation procedures were quickly initiated after the 1844 election of Polk, who campaigned that Texas should be “re-annexed” and that the Oregon Territory should be “re-occupied.”
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Civil War
- the Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery
- In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s northern and southern regions.
- The confederates (North) ended up the victor after four bloody years
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WW l
- known as the 'The war to end all words'
- The U.S. joined the war in 1917
- Hitler was a soldier in WW l
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World War ll
- The U.S. entered the war in 1941 after pearl harbor
- Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany
- Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical
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Vietnam War
- The U.S. joined the war in 1965
- The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam
- The United States entered the war to prevent the spread of communism