Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary--the Monroe Doctrine first set the policy that the western hemisphere was closed to colonization. The Roosevelt Corollary took it a step further by providing military behind the policy.
Following the independence movement in the US and throughout Latin America, the US wanted to protect the area from future colonization. The Monroe Doctrine made the statement and then 80 years later the Roosevelt Corollary enforced the doctrine with our navy and army force.
Enlightenment thinkers used logic and reason to solve problems. People who used enlightenment thinking seem the logic and reason in church and state being separated as well as the leadership of them.
Sparta defeated Athens. In 404 BC, Athens was forced to surrender to Sparta during the Peloponnesian War.
Unless I'm mistaken it was to establish a Japan empire and in the few years that followed Japan started becoming more and more friendly with the Reich and because they were both fascist counties and had the same goals of a larger empire, and more resources. Again i might be wrong please correct me if so.