America had imperial ambitions following a quick victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The American flag flies from the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific to Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
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By urging the creation of a league of nations and u.s. membership in it, president woodrow wilson was proposing that the united states abandon its oldpolicy of isolationism instead, wilson proposed a new foreign policy of internationalism - cooperation with other nations for the good of the world.
Mercantilism introduced a new way to make profit and gain international influence by promoting the foreign trade of select resources.
