United States History: 1877 to 1912 Essentials by Salvatore Prisco

Author:Salvatore Prisco
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780738671550
Publisher: Research & Education Association
Published: 2012-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

4.4.5 The Pacific

The United States intervened in the Hawaiian revolution (1893) to overthrow the anti-American government of Queen Liliuokalani. President Cleveland rejected American annexation of Hawaii in 1894, but President McKinley agreed to annex it in 1898.

CHAPTER 5

WAR AND THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE WORLD, 1897 – 1902

In 1900, an Englishman named William T. Stead authored a book entitled The Americanization of the World in which he predicted that American productivity and economic strength would propel the United States to the forefront of world leadership in the 20th century. The Spanish-American War and the events following it indicated that the U.S. would be a force in the global balance of power for years to come. Few, however, would have predicted that as early as 1920 the U.S. would achieve the pinnacle of world power as a result of the debilitating policies pursued by European political leaders during World War I (1914 – 1919). One question remained: Would the American people be prepared to accept the responsibility of world leadership?

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