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US National Interests Who decides the answer?
What are the threats to the US? What should be the US role in the world? Who decides the answer?
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(liberalism/Wilsonianism)
Theories? Isolationism vs. Internationalism Realists Idealists (liberalism/Wilsonianism)
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Pre-WW II Policies: US as a Regional Power
Manifest Destiny Free Market economics Open access for US investment Spreading Democracy* Nervousness about Commitments
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1. Manifest Destiny
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2. Free Markets: “Our” Hemisphere
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Commodore Perry in Japan, 1853-54
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Open Door Policy: China
Hay Notes
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3. and 4. Wilsonianism and League of Nations
Wilson’s Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles League of Nations Covenant
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Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
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FDR
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