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Worlds of War
Title: Worlds of War
Category: History
Details: Words: 262 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Worlds of War
1. Imperialism – a policy by which stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, or military; also called expansionism.
2. annexation – addition of a new territory to an existing country
3. most-favored nation – Trade status granting a nation the same trading privileges as other nations
4. banana republic – a central American country in the early 1900s that depended upon banana exports and whose politics and economy were dominated by American businesses
5. guerrilla – soldier who fights …showed first 75 words of 262 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 262 total…to prevent other fore4ign powers from intervening in the affairs of western hemisphere countries
10. dollar diplomacy – policy that increased unites states investments abroad to keep foreign societies stable; adapted by president William Howard Taft in the early 1900s
11. paradox of power – combination of contradictory attitudes toward a powerful country
12. Alfred T. Mahan – author who argued in 1890 that the economic future of the united states rested on new overseas markets protected by a larger navy
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