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us military intervention in nicaragua
US military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began in 1912, even though there were various other assaults by the U.S. in Nicaragua throughout this period. American military interventions in Nicaragua were designed to stop any other nation except the United States of America from building a Nicaraguan Canal. The US and Nicaragua now have a major economic connection with one another. -
American motivations for war
Germany’s resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary motivation behind Wilson’s decision to lead the United States into World War I. The military wanted to defend their nation and also survive. -
International Investment
According to the U.S Department of Commerce Figures, the US had invested $61.4 million in Japan. -
U.S. Isolationism
the Great Depression led the American people to become isolationists. Isolationists advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics. -
Appeasments
Appeasement was the policy followed primarily by Britain in the 1930s in attempting to settle international disputes by satisfying grievances through compromise and negotiation. One of the most famous examples of this policy is the negotiations between Chamberlain and Hitler in the lead up to World War Two. It has been argued that in pursuing such a policy, Britain and France encouraged Hitler’s aggression. It is widely accepted that appeasement -
Government Programs- Rationing & Controlling Prices
During World War II fewer manufactured goods were available because of military needs. Government programs for rationing and price controls were administered by the Office of Price Administration (OPA) whose activities were especially important at the local level and affected virtually every household in the United States. -
Opportunities/Economy-cost-plus contracts
The government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage of the costs as profit. Under the cost-plus system, the more a company produced and the faster it did the work, the more money it would make. The US needed lots warfare to have mobilization. -
Propaganda
United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history. Lots of propaganda was made to get people to join the war. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was the most important American naval base in the Pacific and home to the US Pacific Fleet. In strategic terms, the Japanese attack failed. The United States now needed to go to war. -
Executive order 9066
President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Manhattan Project
It was a government research project that produced the first atomic bombs. The start of nuclear weapons not only helped bring an end to the WWII but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war, the Cold War, would be fought. -
D-Day
The Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
Island Hopping
The US military implemented "island hopping" to defeat Japan. The US would skip over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance.