America’s Changing National Interests

Andrés LópezDiana MartínezNatalia Dávila

Crown: Powers of the

British government.

1776

Independence

“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”

SpainFrance

U.S.A

1782

Manifest Destiny“If we didn’t take it,

someone else would”Fo

rce/

Cas

h.

1793 neutrality.

1794Mon

roe

1823

ImperialismIs the amassing of

new lands using military or

economic means.

Imperialism

Goal

New Markets Resource

s

1914-1918World War I Conflict

Austro-Hungarian

EmpireSerbia

President Wilson

Isolationism.• The United States avoids foreign involvement.

World War II• Started in 1939 and showed

that Isolationism was wrong.

Franklin Roosevelt

• Roosevelt’s strategy was to help Britain without alarmingthe American Isolationist.

The Cold War.• F. Roosevelt revived the “Wilsonian Idealism.”