Answer the following questions: Using the Handout, “The Apostle of American Sea Power” answer the following questions in your notes: (1) What do you find interesting about the handout? (2) What was the thesis statement of his great work “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?” (3) What ideas had been around for a while in which Mahan’s work gave more force and coherence?

(1) What do you find interesting about the handout? (2) What was the thesis statement of his great work “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History?” (3) What ideas had been around for a while in which Mahan’s work gave more force and coherence?

“The Apostle of American Sea Power”: What was Mahan’s doctrine (third column, top of page)? “That America, home of a superior race, must penetrate world markets. It must build a merchant marine to carry the goods, and a two-ocean Navy to protect them and to defend its strategic and commercial interests in Samoa, Hawaii, the Caribbean and the Isthmus of Panama." ** Anglo-Saxonism ** Ethnocentrism

Alfred Mahan’s influence upon other countries: “Arguably, Mahan’s writing had one malign result. He reinforced the Kaiser’s inclination to pursue German colonies and naval domination. This, in turn, proved a stimulus to the European arms race, and to the suspicions that culminated in World War I.”

How did naval power influence U.S. Imperialism?

How did naval power influence U.S. Imperialism? The desire for a stronger Navy is a major influence of U.S. Imperialism abroad.

Read pages 423 - 427 [1] Causes of U.S., European, and Japanese imperialism? [2] Extractive economies? [3] What does Albert Beveridge’s quote here mean? [4] By 1900, how does U.S. Navy rank (connection to Mahan)? [5] What was the theme of the book Our Country? [6] What did advocates of Turner’s thesis urge, now that the frontier was closed? [7] Summarize U.S. involvement in Japan, Latin America, and Hawaii.