History of the United States II / Unit 7 USH2 0902 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mahan and Sea Power
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The idea
Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, published in eighteen ninety, argued that national power depended on control of the sea.
In practice
Mahan's three-part programme: a stronger navy, overseas naval bases, and a canal across Central America.
Where people slip
Those three planks are the outline of this unit: bases come with the war of eighteen ninety-eight, the canal with Panama.
Your place on the trail
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