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Title: US National Interests


1
US National Interests
  • What are the threats to the US?
  • What should be the US role in the world?
  • Who decides the answer?

2
Theories?
  • Isolationism
  • vs.
  • Internationalism
  • Realists Idealists
  • (liberalism/Wilsonianism)

3
Pre-WW II Policies US as a Regional Power
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Free Market economics
  • Open access for US investment
  • Spreading Democracy
  • Nervousness about Commitments

4
1. Manifest Destiny
5
2. Free MarketsOur Hemisphere
6
Commodore Perry in Japan, 1853-54
7
Open Door Policy China
  • Hay Notes
  • 1899-1900

8
3. and 4. Wilsonianism and League of Nations
  • Wilsons Fourteen Points
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations
  • Covenant

9
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
10
FDR
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