Ask this question again, you're going to need a more specific time the president has done this. however, if you are asking about WWI, the USS Lusitania, the Zimmerman Telegram, German U Boats targeting American ships, and so on.
They where big trading cities that many people wanted to control and because of it geographic location it was used as a cultural hearth
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By 1900 the United States had overtaken Britain in manufacturing, producing 24 percent of the world's output. After 1870 both Russia and Japan were forced by losing wars to abolish their feudal systems and to compete in the industrializing world.
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