Historians of the United States

This investigation will study the question: to what extent did the United States involvement in Mexico impact Mexican economy? The years 1900-1920 will be the focus of this exploration to allow for an analysis of United States relation with Mexico before the revolution and during the Revolution as well. The first source which will be evaluated in depth is an article called, “Mexico-United States Relations” written in 1991 by a publishing group called Houghton Miffin. The origin of this source is

developmental stage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and it was interpreted to be many things, including controversial to the original colonial beliefs. The United States rapidly took up the sport of becoming involved with foreign nations, and it was clear that through influence on these nations, the United States would grow in both territorial size and power in the global sense. America helped many Polynesian, Latin American, and Asian nations during this period, and most of the conversed

educational system most everyone has talked about the Second World War in great detail. The European and Pacific Theaters were the main focus of many historians and their writing, because war pertained to the audience of the time. WWII revolved around the idea of freedom and liberating the fascist governments of Europe, the homefront back in the states was the war machine that kept the war churning. Millions of pages have been written about the experiences and battles during WWII, and still continue

accounts come to light in the years following its events, historians have more information to make assessments, and as a result there are clear differences in the writings of three historians in three different points of time. Shortly after the events of the Spanish-American War, the blame of the war was mostly placed on the Cubans, with a focus on military strategy. The textbook, An American History, published in 1911, references a United States that was fixated on the military angle of relations with

In Nicaragua, the people were confronted with a war against the United States and resisting the Somoza regime. They had to overcome these obstacles in an attempt to finally establish peace in society. However, their journey towards peace was only complicated by political stratagems by western powers for Cold War supremacy; in other words, Nicaraguans were not only at war with themselves but also with western expansion. The United States government’s obsession with halting the spread of communism and

The United States has had fifty-six presidential elections with forty-three men chosen for the position of President of the United States. The authors' present in their journal article that boldness and fearless dominance associated with psychopathy are valuable predictors of presidential job performance. Their article discusses how brave dominance, linked to low social and physical apprehensiveness, appear to associate with higher-rated presidential performance for leadership, persuasiveness

in Europe on July 28, 1914; President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaimed that the United States would remain neutral on August 4, 1914. However, the United States did not stick to this proclamation, and eventually became involved in the war efforts. This investigation aims to evaluate the reasons the United States violated their neutrality in order to join the war. In inquiring into the reasons of the United States’ entry into the war, the Zimmermann telegram will be assessed. Primary sources, Message

displayed a lack of trustworthiness, evident in the Yalta conference during February 1945, and spread communism into eastern European states. This led to mutual distrust between the USSR and the United States. In 1948, Stalin further escalated tensions between himself and the United States, by enforcing the construction of the Berlin blockade, created to weaken the United States supplies in West Germany. Stalin was a strong believer in militarism, because of this Stalin ordered the creation and consolidation

When historians discuss the Cold War, there are a number of categories amongst which there are heated debates. These include, but are not limited to, who the primary aggressor was, what were the motivations of the aggressor, what lead to its end, and whether or not the Cold War happened at all. Within these arguments, there are various camps among whom the beliefs are contested. There are the orthodox historians, such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., that imagine the Cold War as “the brave and essential

Historians are influenced by countless features of their lives. As a part of any race, gender, religion, nationality, time period, political identity or social class they have a unique world view. These factors may help them see a primary or secondary resource in a new light and gain a fuller understanding of the situation. Their views can also cause historians to overlook important features in resources or fail to recognize a particular side of the issue. Historians can broaden their horizons