Take for instance World War II. In the 1930’s Japan was trying to gain an empire in Asia by attacking areas such as Manchuria, French Indochina and many parts of Northern China. The Japanese militarists slaughtered about 5,890,000 Chinese during this time in World War II. They were unrighteous by going area-to-area raping thousands of women and children. At that time, the United States did not want to enter a war with Japan. Instead of entering a war with Japan pre WWII, the United States put oil sanctions

In another instance but 20 years before World War I, the Spanish-American War took place. The United States had very close business ties with Latin America. The United States was economically very close to Cuba at this time. Many American’s had investments in Cuba at this time, and Cuba was a main trading source for products such as sugar to the United States. . At this time Spain was trying to gain control over Cuba while Cuba was fighting for their independence from Spain. The United States had sent the battleship Maine Havana Harbor in Cuba to protect American’s that were in Cuba from rioters. On February 15, 1898 the Spanish sunk the battleship Maine, killing 260 people on board. This was an act of war and on April 25,1898 the U.S formally declared war on Spain. That same year Spain surrendered and peace was arranged by the Treaty of Paris signed Dec. 10, 1898. The Spanish Empire was practically dissolved. Cuba was freed, but under U.S. tutelage by terms of the Platt Amendment, with Spain assuming the Cuban debt. Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the United States as indemnity, and the Philippines were surrendered to the United States for a payment of $20 million. The United States emerged from the war with new international power. In both Latin America and East Asia it had established an imperial foothold.

Idealistically the United States did want to go to war with Spain but did not have a reason for war until the Spanish had sunk the Battleship Maine. The United States did have several national interests in Cuba, such as all the economic trade between us. Also, the United States wanted more land around the world to become an imperial power, many people argue. That is another reason why the U.S started a war with Spain. So the attack against the battleship Maine gave the U.S a reason to go into war to protect our economic investm

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