Been quite a while since I was in a high school history class, didn’t take any in college, but I went to UMASS/Amherst-a buzzing hive of ANTIFA sh*t- so no telling what I’d have been exposed to. When I was there, it wasn’t as bad as it is now. The crazies had ‘coming out week’ every other week, it seemed and they walked around class to yell that a few professors were doing anthrax research.
Anywho, can someone tell me when the American Empire spread around the world? You know, like the Roman Empire or English Empire? Where America controlled large swathe’s of land across the globe.
Or when the US military marched across the globe to take it over like Alexander the Great, Atila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, the Nazi’s? I must have missed those classes or was allowed to sleep through them.
After the Spanish American War. The US took what was left of the Spanish Empire.
Cuba was set free
Puerta Rico and Guam were kept as territories
The Philippines were run as a sort of commercial colony for about 50 years. Interestingly enough, the Filipinos I know have both good and bad to say about the US administration but nothing but scorn for the Spanish.
The US never called the Philippines a “Colony” but it was, for all effects and purposes, an imperial possession.
In the grand scheme of things, The Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico were a pretty poor empire.