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World Power

Definition

police:

Reasons for that statement

  • a country that has significant influence in international affairs
  • a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
  • many interventions in the last centuries
  • US wants to democratize the world
  • want to stop the tyranny
  • Manifest Destiny and Monroe Doctrine

the civil force of a state, responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order

world police:

a military force, responsible for the solution of a conflict and the prevention of a war in another countries

USA

World Police?

Interventionism

Isolationism

from 1823 to 1917

from 1917 till today

  • The US occupied territories in the Pacific, like Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, Haiti ...

  • The US exerted dollar diplomacy

  • World War One / Two
  • The Americans focused on territorial expansion in North America (avoiding 'foreign entanglements')

  • Isolationist policy was fixed by the Monroe Doctrine in 1823:
  • The US wouldn´t interfere in international affairs, wars of European nations and existing European colonies

military and economic world power

Consequences

Conclusion

Reasons for the intervention

Content

The intervention

Reasons for the war

  • 4,483 American soldiers killed

  • Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed

  • Spend around $900 billion dollars

  • Dictator Saddam Hussein is death

  • Decreasing human rights, no religious freedom and a chaotic political system

John L. O'Sullivan(1813-1859):

editor of the United States Democratic Review

began to expand its armed forces, build defense plants

In 1939, the United States had about

In 1945, the United States had

  • German military successes in Europe and the Battle of Britain prompted nationwide American rethinking about its posture toward the war

  • On December 7th, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbour

  • On December 11th, Hitler declared war on the USA

Its US destiny to democratize the world

  • A duty to disarm a nation like Iraq

  • Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and should be brought to justice

  • Oil reserves are necessary to the world's economy

  • In 2003 George W. Bush admitted that there was no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11

  • 174,000 men in the Army;
  • 126,400 in the Navy;
  • 26,000 in the Army Air Corps;
  • 19,700 in the Marine Corps;
  • 10,000 in the Coast Guard
  • 2,500 airplanes
  • 760 warships

  • six million in the Army
  • 3,400,000 in the Navy
  • 2,400,000 in the Army air forces
  • 484,000 in the Marine Corps
  • 170,000 in the Coast Guard
  • 80,000 airplanes
  • 2,500 warships

Nuclear bombs

World War II

Manifest destiny

Iraq War

1939 - 1945

1845

2003

Today

Sources:

Vietnam War

World Police today

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/16-reasons-why-the-united-states-can-no-longer-afford-to-be-the-police-of-the-world

http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/world/uswwi.htmlb

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erster_Weltkrieg#Vereinigte_Staaten_von_Amerika

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/america_and_world_war_one.htm

http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/world/uswwi.html

http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/1-weltkrieg-usa

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1661.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II#Europe_first

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h255.html

http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/Uploads/Documents/PTW/GomezDeus%20Vult.pdf

http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/vietnamwar.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war

http://www.prüfung-ratgeber.de/2012/06/vietnamkrieg-zusammenfassung-und-verlauf/

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/vietnamwar/p/VietnamBrief.htm

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html

http://www.studyworld.com/Antiwar_Movement.htm

http://americanhistory.about.com/library/blreasonwar.htm

http://frrme.org/the-social-situation-in-iraq-today/

World War I

  • The U.S. military is in 130 different nations and it has about 700 military bases around the world
  • It costs 100 billion dollars each year to maintain these military bases

  • The US is bombing 6 countries
  • Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia

  • U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined

Syrian civil war

1964 - 1973

Obama promises to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and reduce America's oversized and overly costly military in the world.

1914 - 1918

Intervention

vs.

Isolation

Reasons for the intervention

  • Vietnam had been split into north and south (1954)

North Vietnam: communist government (Ho Chi Minh)

southern allies: Viet Cong (1960)

South Vietnam: democratic government (Ngo Dinh Diem)

  • The US backed Ngo Dinh Diem organizes the Republic of Vietnam and declared him president

  • North Vietnam was supported by communist China and Russia

Truman Doctrine

Domino theory

  • In beginning of the war in 1914, the US was neutral and tried to keep out

  • The US was heavily saturated with propaganda

Pro- British, against Germany

  • On May 7th, 1915, the 'Lusitania' sunk. 128 Americans were killed

  • On April 6th, 1917 the United States formally declared war on Germany

the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries

the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Communist insurrection

  • US lost the Vietnam War
  • because of well-supplied Viet Congs in the jungle (network of underground tunnels)

  • On January 27, 1974, a peace accord was signed in Paris ending the conflict

  • More than 3 million people were killed (58.000 Americans)

Consequences

Anti-War Movement

1965-1971

  • was the most significant

movement

  • By 1968, almost 7 million protestors
  • half being white youths in the colleges

  • 250,000 people demonstrate against the war in Washington D.C.

  • major factor affecting America's involvement in the war
  • August 2 and 4, 1964 North Vietnam torpedo boats attacked the US destroyer bombing of North Vietnam

  • March 8, 1965 First US combat troops reach South Vietnam

  • By 1969 more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict

  • The US used Agent Orange and Napalm

The conflict

Reasons for the intervention

The intervention

Consequences

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