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A 5 page paper tracing US involvement in Asia during this 100-year period. By 1950, the US was wary of the new communist government on mainland China, but it maintained the position as a benevolent protector of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, which promised strategic positioning. The US represented a largely silent threat to dictatorial forces in Asia, a force that promised to lie dormant unless there was need for it to arise. With the memory of World War II so very fresh, none of the more oppressive forces in Asia doubted that the US would act if it believed action to be necessary. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShistUSPolAsia.rtf
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foreign policy toward most of the world changed dramatically in the 100 years between 1850 and 1950. In the earliest years of this 100 years, the United States was
expanding rapidly to the West. It maintained relations with other world governments of course, but its primary focus was internal. That internal focus was heightened by the Civil
War, and the United States did not significantly look outward again until Reconstruction was well underway. Before the Spanish-American War, the focus of
the US government in matters of foreign policy were largely confined to the Western Hemisphere. US leaders determined that it was the responsibility and right of the US government
to have a voice in matters occurring close to its own borders, and whether individual nations agreed with that position was largely immaterial. The Spanish-American War changed that stance,
however, forcing the US government to take an active stance in Asia. Conditions in Asia Several Asian nations had direct, active and not
altogether pleasant contact with the West in the last half of the 19th century. The first Opium War between Britain and China had resulted in defeat for the Chinese
that would be followed by Chinas self-strengthening movement and ultimately by another Opium War with Britain in which China would lose control of Hong Kong until 1999. Japan underwent
many structural changes during the period as well. The Samurai had been unhappy with Japans feudal system for some time; that displeasure was made manifest in the last half
of the 19th century to usher in the Meiji Restoration. As China turned inward to assess its inability to stand before the tiny nation of Britain, Japan began looking
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