The Progressive Era is considered from 1890 to 1920. The major role of the United States in global affairs during this period of time was its involvement in the war.
The military affairs of that time included the war with Spain, the war to conquer the Philippines and the entry into the First World War.
Until the beginning of the 20th. century, political affairs in the US used to follow Washington and Madison, guidelines of neutrality and nonintervention.
But in those times, European nations turned into imperialism, establishing colonies in different parts of the planet. Time passed by when Theodore Roosevelt, influenced by <em>The Influence of Sea Power Upon History</em>(written by Admiral Alfred Thayer in 1890), understood the potential of investing money in other countries, securing the interest of the U.S.
In the 1910-1920's, the United States government followed an intervention policy in the Caribbean and Central America, the Philippines and even President Wilson supported the Mexican revolution.
In the early 1900s, Russia was one of the most impoverished countries in Europe with an enormous peasantry and a growing minority of poor industrial workers. ... The emancipation of serfs would influence the events leading up to the Russian Revolution by giving peasants more freedom to organize.
To help freed slaves succeed
By the numbers, the WWII was indeed the most deadly war in history as it killed an estimate of 60 to 75 million people. It was the first war that really took multi-continental proportions and affected every country and group of people in the world. It involved around 100 million people and it was marked by mass killings of civilians, like the Holocaust, and atomic bombings. The Soviet Union was the country that suffered the most casualities, civilian and military, losing roughly 15% of its population.
