The Fateful Year 1898: The United States Becomes an Imperial Power The Fateful Year 1898: The United States Becomes an Imperial Power The Great Debate Over American Overseas Expansion By John Ries and Mark Weber Most Americans have come to accept as entirely normal the readiness of their government to send troops to faraway lands. In recent decades, such military adventures have included President Johnson's Vietnam fiasco, President Reagan's ill-fated dispatch of Marines to Lebanon, President Bush's massive Gulf War against Iraq, and the Somalia intervention of presidents Bush and Clinton. It wasn't so long ago when most Americans firmly rejected global adventurism. Implicit in the following essay is a question: Would America, and the world, be better or worse off today if the United States had decided against overseas expansion and imperialism in the late 1890s? Many students of history trace the beginning of America's readiness for overseas military intervention to one of two presidential decisions: The 1890s Manufactured War Hysteria "Remember the Maine!
Illegal drug trade International drug routes. History[edit] Chinese edicts against opium smoking were made in 1729, 1796 and 1800.[2] Addictive drugs were prohibited in the west in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3][4][5] An illegal drug trade emerged in the early 19th century. In 1868, as the result of the increased use of opium, the UK restricted the sale of opium in Britain by implementing the 1868 Pharmacy Act .[7] In the United States, control remained a state responsibility until the introduction of the Harrison Act in 1914, following the passing of the International Opium Convention in 1912. Between 1920 and 1933, alcohol was banned in the United States. Since drugs traded on the black market can provide a secretive source of money, they have long been used by organizations such as the U.S. Legal penalties[edit] Drug trafficking is widely regarded as the most serious of drug offenses around the world. Effects of illegal drug trade on societies[edit] Violent crime[edit] Profits[edit]
Social Studies - FREE Lesson Plans Activities Games Powerpoints Handouts - for Kids and Teachers Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (/kəˈmɛər ˈruːʒ/; French for "Red Khmers", French pronunciation: [kmɛʁ ʁuʒ]; Khmer: ខ្មែរក្រហម Khmer Kraham) was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. It was formed in 1968 as an offshoot of the Vietnam People's Army from North Vietnam. It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge and Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, in 1978. By 1979, the Khmer Rouge had fled the country, while the People's Republic of Kampuchea was being established.[3] The governments-in-exile (including the Khmer Rouge) still had a seat in the UN at this point, but it was later taken away, in 1993, as the monarchy was restored and the country underwent a name change to the Kingdom of Cambodia. Historic legacy[edit] Flag used by Khmer Rouge during their 1975 campaign. Ideology[edit] Name history[edit] Origins[edit] Early history[edit]
Alexander Street | Publisher of streaming video, audio, and text library databases in music, counseling, history, business, and more Introduction to the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies). As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people. Further Reading Bergen, Doris. Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy War in Darfur The War in Darfur[12][13] was a major armed onslaught in the Darfur region of Sudan. It began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups took up arms against the Government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population. The government responded to attacks by carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur's non-Arabs. This produced the deaths of tens to hundreds of thousands of civilians and the indictment of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir for genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. Estimates of the number of human casualties range up to several hundred thousand dead, from either combat or starvation and disease. The Sudanese government and the JEM signed a ceasefire agreement in February 2010, with a tentative agreement to pursue peace. Origins of the conflict[edit] There are several different explanations for the origins of the conflict.
The American Revolution - US History Scene The American Revolution was by no means a purely American-British conflict. The fight for American independence piqued the interest of Europe’s most powerful colonial powers. The result of this conflict would not only determine the fate of the thirteen North American colonies, but also alter the balance of colonial power throughout the world. Setting the Table for Revolution: The Seven Years’ War “The Seven Years’ War was in its origin not an European war at all; it was a war between England and France on Colonial questions with which the rest of Europe had nothing to do” – Arthur Ropes, late nineteenth century British historian The Seven Years’ War was in many ways the capstone conflict for an eighteenth century riddled with imperial competition. But, what were the outcomes of the Seven Years’ War and how did it change the landscape of colonial power on the eve of the American Revolution? British victory, however, came with a heavy price tag. Europe’s Imperial Motives France Spain Germany
Slavery in America The American Revolution The American Revolution was the struggle by which thirteen colonies won independence from Great Britain, to become what we now know as The United States of America. The thirteen original states that joined together in the American Revolution against the mother country were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The American Revolution came about primarily because the colonists had matured. The French and Indian War had a lot to do with the American's sense of separation from Britain. In this group report, we will present information about the American Revolution, its causes and consequences. There are Positive as well as Negative Consequences of the Revolution. The American Revolution had a tremendous impact not only in The United States, but also in Europe and the rest of the world.
Armenian Genocide In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared. The Ottoman Empire was ruled by the Turks who had conquered lands extending across West Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe. In its heyday in the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a powerful state. In response to the crisis in the Ottoman Empire, a new political group called the Young Turks seized power by revolution in 1908. The deportations were disguised as a resettlement program. Resistance to the deportations was infrequent.
Proclamation Line of 1763, Quebec Act of 1774 and Westward Expansion - 1750–1775 The British won vast territory in North America after the Seven Years’ War, but with the land came numerous problems of how to govern it. Conflicts arose from the inability of British officials to balance the interests of colonists and Indians, which led to colonial dissatisfaction with imperial rule and, ultimately, to the causes of the American Revolution. The Proclamation Line of 1763—between the red colored colonies and the pink territories The Treaty of Paris of 1763 that ended the Seven Years’ War provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains. The settlement of the lands west of the Appalachians brought inevitable tension and conflict between settlers and indigenous peoples. British officials made the situation worse by alienating American Indians who had been allied with France during the Seven Years’ War. War with the Indian tribes continued from 1764 into 1766.