Examples of Alliance for Progress in the following topics:
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- Kennedy's most well known act regarding Latin America was the Alliance for Progress, which aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
- The Alliance for Progress achieved a short-lived public relations success.
- It is often argued that the program failed for three reasons: (1) not all Latin American nations were willing to enact the exact reforms the U.S. demanded in exchange for their assistance; (2) presidents after Kennedy were less supportive of the program; and (3) the amount of money was not enough for an entire hemisphere - $20 billion averaged out to only $10 per person in Latin America.
- The address detailed how American foreign policy should be conducted toward African nations, noting a hint of support for modern African nationalism by saying that "For we, too, founded a new nation on revolt from colonial rule."
- Kennedy at La Morita, Venezuela, during an official meeting for the Alliance for Progress in 1961.
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- Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance stressed the demand for free coinage of large amounts of silver.
- The alliance movement as a whole reached over 750,000 by 1890.
- In 1889–1890, the alliance was reborn as the Populist Party.
- The convention produced the "Ocala Demands," which included a call for the abolition of national banks, an increase of circulating money, free silver, industrial regulations, a graduated income tax, lower tariffs, and the direct election of United States senators.
- For both groups, social events helped cement political ties.
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- The Progressive Movement influenced U.S. policy in World War I through its
ideals of morality, efficiency and democracy.
- While
many historians disagree over the exact dates of the Progressive Era, most see
World War I as a globalized expression of the American movement, with Wilson's
fight for the League of Nations envisioned
in his Fourteen Points as
its climax.
- This came to a bloody climax when these alliances
provoked the start of World War I by drawing all the great nations of the
continent into conflict with each other.
- The most important proponent of
this concept was President Woodrow Wilson, who in 1917 won the support of a
large number of these moralists by framing World War I as "a war to make
the world safe for democracy" and the time to fight for Progressive ideals.
- Woodrow Wilson, one of the most prominent Progressives, framed World War I in moral and democratic terms.
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- The alliance is a cooperation or collaboration that aims for a synergy where each partner hopes that the benefits from the alliance will be greater than those from individual efforts.
- High switching costs, costs for searching potential cooperative sourcers, and negotiating may result in inefficient solutions.
- Partner assessment involves analyzing a potential partner's strengths and weaknesses; creating strategies to accommodate all partners' management styles; preparing appropriate partner selection criteria; understanding a partner's motives for joining the alliance; and addressing resource capability gaps that may exist for a partner.
- Alliance termination entails winding down the alliance—for instance, when its objectives have been met or cannot be met or when a partner adjusts priorities or reallocates resources elsewhere.
- Creating adequate suitability of resources and competencies for an organization to survive
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- Among the progressive movement's early actions were attempts to give the general populace more power over legislation.
- Many states enacted factory inspection laws; by 1916, nearly two-thirds of the states required compensation for the victims in industrial accidents.
- In 1912, the United States Children's Bureau was created in order to investigate "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people. " An alliance of labor and humanitarian groups induced some state legislatures to grant aid to mothers with dependent children.
- Under pressure from the National Child Labor Committee, nearly every state set a minimum age for employment and limited hours that employers could make children work.
- Unlike the AFL, which was a group composed of separate unions for each different trade (craft unionism), the IWW supported the concept of industrial unionism, in which all workers in a given industry are organized in a single union regardless of each worker's particular trade.
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- The Progressives argued the need for government regulation of business practices to ensure competition and free enterprise.
- After experimenting in the early 1900s with cooperation with business in the National Civic Federation, after 1906, it turned to a working political alliance with the Democratic party.
- The alliance was especially important in the larger industrial cities.
- The rapid growth of industry called for large numbers of new workers.
- Other groups, such as the Prohibitionists, opposed immigration because it was a base of support for the saloons.
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- Isolationism or non-interventionism was a tradition in America's foreign policy for its first two centuries.
- For the first 200 years of United States history, the national policy was isolationism and non-interventionism.
- President Thomas Jefferson extended Washington's ideas in his March 4, 1801 inaugural address: "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. " Jefferson's phrase "entangling alliances" is, incidentally, sometimes incorrectly attributed to Washington.
- After Tsar Alexander II put down the 1863 January Uprising in Poland, French Emperor Napoleon III asked the United States to "join in a protest to the Tsar. " Secretary of State William H Seward declined, "defending 'our policy of non-intervention — straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations,'" and insisted that "the American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference. "
- This near-total humiliation of Germany in the wake of World War I, as the treaty placed sole blame for the war on the nation, laid the groundwork for a pride-hungry German people to embrace Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
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- Neither group, however, found much reason to be satisfied with its partnership: British subsidies to Austria produced nothing of much help to the British, while the British military effort had not saved Silesia for Austria.
- This change in European alliances was a prelude to the Seven Years' War.
- The 1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, after the War of the Austrian Succession, left Austria aware of the high price it paid for having Britain as an ally.
- Consequently, it entered into a defensive alliance with Austria.
- However, the alliance proved to be short-lived largely because Britain withdrew financial and military support for Prussia in 1762.
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- Section 13A of the Norris-La Guardia Act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v.
- Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v.
- George William Norris (1861 – 1944) was a U.S. politician from the state of Nebraska and a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress.
- Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (1882 – 1947) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.
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- The Treaty of Alliance with France was a defensive agreement between France and the United States, as shown in .
- This reluctance to send military aid to the Americans, however, changed with Washington's defeat of Britain at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777: when France re-initiated negotiations with the United States for a formal alliance that resulted in both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance.
- The Treaty of Alliance was, in effect, an insurance policy for France that guaranteed the support of the United States if Britain broke the current peace they had with the French, "either by direct hostilities, or by (hindering) her commerce and navigation," as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
- The treaty outlined the terms and conditions of this military alliance and established requirements for the signing of future peace treaties to end hostilities with the British.
- After signing the treaty, French supplies of arms, ammunition, and uniforms proved vital for the Continental Army.