1. Comparative History By: David Fry

2. Imperialism For Imperialism there is the world of those who took and have and the world of those who lack and want. Whether a powerful nation extended its control, its influence, or merely its advice over another people, those so controlled or so advised not unnaturally resented the controller. Most Americans hoped to make the colonial societies over in the American model so that they could qualify for self-government or for admission into the Union itself.

3. Imperialism The roots of the later period of American expansion overseas lie in the pre-Civil War past, for it was then that the American idea of a national mission developed. Because the United States had a continent to conquer, it developed its first empire internally, incorporating territory into the body politic in a way that European nations having to seek overseas outlets for their energies, their people, their goods, their investments, and their doctrines, could neither understand nor attempt.

4. Imperialism No European power gave any colony independence before the end of World War II. But the United States released Cuba from its administrative embrace in 1934and promised in the same year to give the Philippines independence after a decade’s transition period, a promise kept immediately following World War II.

5. Imperialism Puerto Rico was offered independence or statehood and chose neither, so that today it is a unique commonwealth, within the American nation, self-governing, and in part untaxed. The United States rejected empire in 1945. Victorious, wealthy, clearly the most powerful nation on earth, the United States insisted upon retaining much, had 19th century doctrines of power been operative.

6. Imperialism Distinct elements of U.S. colonial rule significantly shaped Philippine protest and resistance. Most particularly, without a coherent national elite leadership, Philippine protest tended toward limited and localized mass expressions or more civil demonstrations to demand broader voice or resources within existing or proposed arrangements.

7. World War II It is a commonplace that if Britain and America had stood up to dictators in the 1930s the Second World War would have never happened. Winston Churchill dubbed it “the unnecessary war,” and the first volume of his war memoirs took as its theme “how the English-speaking peoples, through their unwisdom, carelessness and good nature, allowed the wicked to rearm.” By the early 1930s the world economy had collapsed into depression, and threats to peace were already apparent.

8. World War II In 1931 an expansionist Japan had taken Manchuria on the mainland from China. Hitler came to power in January 1933, as he rapidly rearmed Germany and planned a vast Aryan empire in Europe and beyond. The Italian dictator Mussolini invaded Ethiopia virtually unchallenged in 1935. Britain and America watched these events from the sidelines. Both countries were preoccupied with recovery from the depression.

9. World War II In 1938 Hitler invaded Austria and then threatened Czechoslovakia. By September war seemed inevitable. On the night of August 31, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, and three days later Britain and France declared war. In April of 1940 Germany invaded Scandinavia. On May 10 the German army invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France.

10. World War II Hitler did a surprise attack on Russia in 1941, but Russia had a good defense that put the main thrust of the war for the moment in Eastern Europe. In July 1941 Japan overran the remainder of Indochina; Americans reacted by imposing an oil embargo and strengthening their forces in the Philippines.

11. World War II On the morning of Sunday December 7 Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, sinking eight American battleships and leaving 2,400 dead. America declared war on Japan, and Hitler, in return declared war on America. After this there was racism in the United States towards Japan, which was depicted in parades, magazines, and other print.