American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home 1945-2000 (Penguin History of the United States)

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- [Voiceover] So I have a map here of United States possessions in the Pacific and in the Caribbean today, and they're kind of all over the place. And some of them are pretty tiny. There's Guam, which is just barely a little speck on the map, and American Samoa and more well known would be the Hawaiian Islands, right? One of the fifty states of the United States. Have you ever wondered why the United States has islands in the middle of the Pacific? This is thousands of miles from the mainland of the United States. So what's the deal? Did the United States just want access to somewhere to get a tan and maybe buy some pineapple? In this video I want to talk about the very unique, historical circumstances under which the United States acquired a bunch of territory outside of the borders of the lower 48 states. Or how, in other words, the United States became an empire. And empire, or imper
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