<span>The Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was designed to prevent western (capitalist) incursion into the region, however this was bypassed by the US with the "Berlin Airlift". </span>
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The union was not seeking to end slavery.
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Hawaii had become an American territory during 1989 after the Spanish-American War.
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Along with Manifest Destiny, after the war, the United States had made an unofficial empire in the Pacific. With the Philippines as its biggest colony, Hawaii was much closer to home therefore it was annexed. Hawaii held a geographical strategic value and eventually in the future would turn into an economically prosperous state.
