Answer: On January 8, 1815, the United States achieved its greatest battlefield victory of the War of 1812 at New Orleans. The Battle of New Orleans thwarted a British effort to gain control of a critical American port and elevated Major General Andrew Jackson to national fame.
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These are three of Wilson´s 14 points:
- Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
- Freedom of the seas.
- An indedependent Poland.
Secret pacts with secret clauses were a common practive of European diplomacy; president Woodrow Wilson was against this practice.
Freedom of navigation and of the seas have always been important for an economic and major naval power like the USA.
Poland disappeared from the map of Europe by the end of the 18th century, but it was a large nation and such a proposal would be in agreeement with the principle of self-determination backed by Wilson.
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The European war presented the Japanese with tempting opportunities. After the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941, the Japanese were torn between German urgings to join the war against the Soviets and their natural inclination to seek richer prizes from the European colonial territories to the south. In 1940 Japan occupied northern Indochina in an attempt to block access to supplies for the Chinese Nationalists, and in July 1941 it announced a joint protectorate with Vichy France over the whole colony. This opened the way for further moves into Southeast Asia.
C) forcing debate on policy alternatives
