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The domino theory is basically ,if one new country went communist in Asia then it would begin a chain reaction that would cause several more Southeast Asian countries becoming communist. it was the reason the united states went into the Vietnam war. since everyone was becoming a communist no laws were really set so they went into war. As the Vietnam War escalated, America's leaders and soldiers found themselves in a quagmire with no victory in sight. Eventually the war weakened the American economy, divided the people, and eroded the nation's morale.
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19th century: The American expansion was guided by the concept of <em>Manifest Destiny</em>, being that the people of the time believed it was their fate to expand and colonize the rest of the territory (that became what is now the U.S.), whilst pushing forward their virtues and institutions, with the urge to do so being irresistible to them.
20th century: The expansion of this period (that actually started in the final years of the century before) was called <em>Imperialism</em>, where the idea of gaining overseas territories, expanding American influence on international market by expanding their industry and trade.
Similarities and differences: In both periods there was an interest in expanding American territories, although the ideologies behind those movements where different: in the former the belief of forming a great country through force of will was their core motive; conflicts with other nations and cultures were consequences rather than the motif. In the later the economic and power interest where the reasons for doing so; the expansion had many morally questionable sub-tones, such as racism and an exaggerated me-before-you approach to all, with conflict and war being promoted by one president of the time (Theodore Roosevelt).
Barack Obama was the 44th president.
