spirit influence America?
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❖ The League of Nations ▪ The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
its commitment to active engagement in world affairs. ▪ Clinton’s Presidential successor, George W. Bush, initially spoke of a wish to build on Clinton’s internationalism.
Ⅰ Forming a Government
The constitution that was
created during the hot summer of 1787 was developed by a diverse group of men that consisted of farmers, military men, politicians, businessmen, statesmen, and schemers.
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▪ Non-Interventionism between the World Wars
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status, and its own colonial empire, was established in the 1890s. ➢ More significantly, the US received the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico.
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The US’s Road to War, 1937–1941
Hitler declaring war on the United States
on 11 December 1941
Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941.
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1 The Cold War
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3 Domestic Policy 1961-2001
4 Post-racial Politics
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▪ Reagan immediately showed his foreign policy colours.
▪ Reagan was trying to initiate talks with the USSR. ▪ The Clinton administration (1993-2001) declared
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Ⅰ Forming a Government ❖The Concept of the Separation of
Powers
▪ the Executive ; ▪ the Legislature; ▪ the Judiciary, or at least a Supreme Court
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❖A Federal Government of Limited Power
▪ The term ‘limited power’ needs to be considered carefully because limited power simply implies that there were rules created which restricted the scope of federal government, and it does not necessarily mean that federal government had little power.
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The End of the Cold War, 1980-2001
3. The US Politics 1930s-1940s
❖ ‘The Grand Alliance’
▪ The Grand Alliance was an alliance made during World War II, which joined together the United States (led by Franklin Roosevelt), the Soviet Union (led by Joseph Stalin) and Great Britain (led by Winston Churchill).
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➢ an adherence to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine ➢ It was in the Caribbean, however, that US world power
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❖Individual Rights under the Constitution
white males
females, Native Americans and blacks
in American political system? ❖2. What are the changes to the Constitution
since its implementation? ❖3. At the outbreak of the Civil War, what
situation was the minorities of America in? ❖4. How did Martin Luther King’s actions and
❖ Martin Luther King
▪ Born Michael King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
▪ Died April 4, 1968 (aged
39) Memphis, Tennessee, United States
▪ Monuments
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Memorial
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❖ New Frontier ▪ The term New Frontier was used by liberal Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him. The phrase developed into a label for his administration's domestic and foreign programs.